That's Toby, Without the E

    One of the newest songs on the Hot 100 chart is "Tobey" by Eminem with Big Sean and Baby Tron.  It was originally just a song by the latter two, but when Eminem heard, he wanted to be a part of it as well and it became a single on his latest album.  It is basically a dis track, using the allusion to Tobey Maguire's role of Spider-Man in the original movies.  While 'Tobey' developed super powers after being bitten by a spider, they must have been bitten by a 'goat', and acronym for 'greatest of all time,' because they are so talented.  The song then goes on to show just how talented they are to lessor rappers.  At first, I kind of liked having my name featured as the title for a hit single. Except for that spelling with the superfluous "e." I have hated that spelling ever since Maguire became famous.  Don't get me wrong; I don't hate the actor.  It is only that spelling of his name that irks me.  The song isn't too bad either.  While I would never buy an entire rap album, I have bought individual songs back in the days of cassettes and CD singles.  I was fortunate enough to be able to hear the entire song during the waning days of my Sirius XM free trial last week.  I felt that the song was fairly good, although there was quite a bit of swearing in it, although not that much for a rap song.  Yes, it was on Eminem's own channel.  And, yes, my mother was unfortunately in the car with me while I was listening to it.  Fortunately, her hearing aids weren't on a high setting, I think.  She never complained, although I always feel funny whenever a song I like comes on and it is the unedited album cut.  At least I got to hear "Tobey" in its original form, as my regular top 40 radio station rarely plays rap.  It even plays the non-rap version of singles that feature rap most of the time.  In fact, it can take weeks for them to even play current hits.  Instead, that station can play random songs from over twenty years ago.  Or else it has new songs from artists who are no longer quite as relevant to the chart tastes as they used to be.  For example, they are playing the new single by Katy Perry that just debuted last week, the one that my critics and fans aren't liking.  They are not playing former number one "Please Please Please" by Sabrina Carpenter, possibly due to the lyrics in it, although other local stations are playing one of the 'Clean/Radio' edits of the song.  Instead of the "mother-trucker" sub I heard on Sirius, they were playing "little sucker," which is kind of worse in my opinion.  Even if a censored version of "Tobey" becomes available, as did for previous single "Houdini," I doubt my favorite station will ever play it.  It's actually the better song.