GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) – WIXX is getting a LOT of press in Minnesota for a choice made about a new song.
WIXX recently starting playing the new song “Truth Hurts” from Atlantic Records recording artist Lizzo, some fairly significant adjustments have been made to the song.
In the chorus of the song, Lizzo sings a line “…new man on the Minnesota Vikings.” Much like songs get edited for profanity, WIXX edited out all the references in the song to ‘Minnesota Vikings’ without ruining the beat or rhythm of the song.
As you probably know, WIXX is Green Bay’s FM home of the Packers Radio Network game-day broadcasts, weekly head coach interviews during the season and weeknight on-air personality Jayson Slade is the on-field game-day entertainment host at Lambeau Field.
WIXX Music Director (and midday host) Otis Day explains: “We knew playing a song with multiple references to the Minnesota Vikings was not going to work on WIXX. (Cutting out ‘Minnesota Vikings’) really makes sense for our audience – I’m pretty sure no radio station in Minneapolis would play a song that references the Green Bay Packers multiple times.”
“Truth Hurts”, which is the biggest hit to date (according to Mediabase 24/7 radio monitoring) for the Minneapolis-based artist is also featured in the Netflix movie “Someone Great.”
Since doing this, WIXX has gotten some fairly significant press from both Wisconsin and Minnesota:
Click below to read the articles:
KFAN (Minnesota Vikings – Minneapolis Sports Station) Dan Barriero Podcast
If you would like to hear this version of the song – it will play on WIXX at the approx. times listed below:
Fri. 6/14:
4:20pm
Top 9 at 9 (depending on requests/votes)
10:20pm
Sat. 6/15:
2:41am
7:29am
11:38am
4:05pm
Top 9 at 9 (depending on requests/votes)
Sun. 6/16:
1:29am
6:08am
10:26am
3:31pm
8:44pm
Top 9 at 9 (depending on requests/votes)
Mon. 6/17:
12:16am
4:32am
9:43am
1:39pm
6:16pm
Top 9 at 9 (depending on requests/votes)
11:06pm
