• De_Narm@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    3 months ago

    Given this data, I think I can reasonably predict that lyrics of pop songs in about 20 or 30 years will mostly consist of cursing. Maybe even sooner given my personal impression of pop songs repeating their lines more often each decade.

  • whotookkarl@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    3 months ago

    I find Frank Zappa’s opposition to censorship pretty inspiring and hope this trend continues:

    “The biggest threat to America today is not communism, it’s moving America toward a fascist theocracy, and everything that’s happened during the Regan administration is steering us right down that pipe. […] When you have a government that prefers a certain moral code derived from a certain religion and that moral code turns into legislation to suit one certain religious point of view, and if that code happens to be very very right wing, almost toward Attila the Hun.”

    • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      3 months ago

      I would definitely like to see a set of charts like this separated out by musical genre.

    • dingus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      I’m sure that definitely contributed. But I think another big thing is that with the advent of the internet, artists don’t have to worry about censorship as much.

      Back in the day, you used to discover new music through the radio. At least in the US, radio does not allow for curse words to be broadcasted. Sure, artists will often have both explicit and clean radio edits, but some just don’t bother and make one clean version instead.

      Now that many people listen to and discover new music on platforms like Spotify, YouTube Music, Tidal, SoundCloud, etc., people don’t have to worry about censorship as much.

      I could be wrong, though. It’s just a hypothesis. Maybe it was solely rap/hip hop and not much else!

  • Jo Miran@lemmy.mlEnglish
    4·
    3 months ago

    Data confirms that it was around the same time Tipper Gore got triggered.