[DEBATE] Music Swearing

I was thinking about this today while talking to my friend...

Who should be blame the Parents or the singers?

Well, In a lot of songs they swear and most of the time it even says Explicit Content but kids at like 8 to 10 listening to it, Hearing the swearing and decide to start to swear, The parents then hear them and tell them off or what ever and stop them from listening to that Singer.

Who should you blame the Parent for not being strict enough to stop their child from listening to it, Or the Singer for swearing?


In my views I blame the parents ;)

there is nothing wrong with swearing unless using it in inappropriate situations or using it to insult someone in a place where they shouldn't. parents can't stop children listening to music, they'll listen to it at school or someone else's house and if they don't learn from music they'll learn from other people.

I'm not a fan of music that excessively swears - mainly today's modern music, Nicki Minaj... etc, and it'd be quite hard for parents to control their children's music and music taste. Swearing in a song isn't always a bad thing, but swearing for the sake of it is.

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Originally Posted by DryRash

I was thinking about this today while talking to my friend...

Who should be blame the Parents or the singers?

Well, In a lot of songs they swear and most of the time it even says Explicit Content but kids at like 8 to 10 listening to it, Hearing the swearing and decide to start to swear, The parents then hear them and tell them off or what ever and stop them from listening to that Singer.

Who should you blame the Parent for not being strict enough to stop their child from listening to it, Or the Singer for swearing?


In my views I blame the parents ;)

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The parents. Kids shouldn't listen to music that contains swearing, although it's frequent in todays society, in more than just music. Saying that, i listened to music that had swearing in it when i was younger and it didn't make me go out and swear. All kids should know right and wrong.. if they don't, that is lack of discipline.

That's true, I suppose you just got to learn from their own mistakes, I know parents can't stop them 24/7 as their out with their friends or at school but, Today I here kids that look at least 9 looking at me saying things they probably don't even know what it means!

there's nothing wrong with swearing and if younger children are found listening to an explicit song you can't blame anyone but the parents. why would you blame the person who wrote the song? they haven't done anything wrong. they're just making money.

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Originally Posted by cameron

there's nothing wrong with swearing and if younger children are found listening to an explicit song you can't blame anyone but the parents. why would you blame the person who wrote the song? they haven't done anything wrong. they're just making money.

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I know if the parents don't agree with the Song writer or what ever, They shouldn't blame them, They should blame nothing but them self for not cutting back onto what their child is limited to see and hear.

You shouldn't try and shelter kids from music like that though i mean understandably if a child is ages under 12 then its completely down to the parents but when you start to develop your own music taste, i see no reason to stop someone listening to a song, which contains swearing unless its just excessively stupid or discriminating against a group of people.

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Originally Posted by Kardan

Swearing in a song isn't always a bad thing, but swearing for the sake of it is.

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Cleverly, the music industry has been able to defend themselves against any problems with "clean" versions of songs. But in all honesty, who buys the 'clean' versions of songs? People want the original versions of songs and preventing children from explicit content will surely only encourage them more to try and listen to it?

I personally have no problem with swearing in songs, but like Kardan says, nowadays people seem to purposely curse in songs for, what seems to be, popularity and be against parental consent/ rebellious.

Overall, I believe swearing in music is okay when its actually to do with something, however I do not agree with music that swears repetitively with no meaning, eg: Sak Noel's song where is goes 'Le Gente Esta Muy Loca, what the ****' There is no real need for the swearing here, but its added in anyway.. this is what i dont understand

I hate swearing in songs. It really annoys me as sometimes I LOVE the song (e.g. Perfect by P!NK, Monster by Kanye West, Weightless by ATL, Killing in the Name by RATM) but it's just not necessary!! I hate swearing full stop and am seriously trying to stop doing it myself (typing, I hardly ever swear out loud) because it annoys me when people do it. Artists MUST know that swearing songs will need to be edited to be a success (on the radio), which more often than not destroys the song's point (Forget You has to be the ONLY successful one).

I'm not a fan of swearing in songs, it's like the artist is doing it for the sake of swearing which to be honest is just pathetic. I would say parents could be more strict about it, but it's hard to keep tabs on what kids are listening to and if they don't know the music themselves they won't know which songs/artists to get their kids to avoid. However, parents should be strict on their kids when they hear them swear, because far too many kids go around swearing thinking it's 'cool' or makes them 'hard,' or whatever. It's pathetic and makes them and their parents look disgraceful.

Yeah, I'm not a big, big fan of swearing in music, however I think swearing should be used in the song if they're expressing something.

I hate when singers in terrible music start to over-use the swearing, they probably do it on purpose to make them seem like they're making the song cooler, yet it's just dreadful, imo.

Regarding the Parents and Children, you can't stop children listening to the music.... one family isn't gonna change the whole 'Swearing in songs should be banned' or whatever...

:) ~Jay

I'm not overly fussed about swearing unless of course it involves sexual references then that song is a big no-no.

Mainly because I'm a Rap & Grime fan, it contains a lot of swearing.

Parents shouldn't buy kids stuff they know have warning labels on them.

I don't exactly like it or sexual lyrics, especially in regards to children.

But as usual, if you don't like something then don't buy it or listen to it.

Kids are gonna swear either way... If they don't learn it from their parents they're going to learn it somewhere else. We can't shelter them from the real world forever.

The parents, they should stop the children from listening to this music if it upsets them so much. It's the artists music they can do what they like.