Why do artists have to go and ruin songs by swearing?

[TopManTim]

a) it takes like a minute in a recording studio to sing a few words to be put in the song to make a clean version, hardly time wasting or consuming.

b) that's like saying why do artists use (insert any word here) in songs? They could replace it. It's lyrics... they fit the song.

[Roboevil]

What the **** are you christian? It's word, it's the same as any other.

[RedStratocas]

well sometimes artists definitely go overboard. if youre saying a swear every other lyric you're just taking away the power of the word, rendering it meaningless. but if the swear is in context i dont see a problem with it.

[Imnotpure]

artist use swearing as it fills the emotion, they dont sing songs to fit what you want, alot of them sing about personal experience.

[cocaine]

what the hell lol :S its a word... if you dont like hearing them then turn your computer off and throw away the plug..

[stickwitu]

What the **** are you christian? It's word, it's the same as any other.

i love you lol

[drama]

lol trying to imagine a clean version of 'Killing in the name of'

[Richie]

I can understand what some of you mean about 'Artists swearing to make it sound more effective' but i dont understand in a song like akons or something where he says something like the N word and ruins the
song also i would like to apologise swearing in one of my recent posts it was realy early and i didnt realise i said it so im sorry

[TopManTim]

They're just words... Like many have said what your saying is the same as why use words begining with the letter N or ending with ing.

Because they're words and they describe what's happening.

[JackBuddy]

I agree that some swearing in songs is pointless and annoying but most of the time artists do it to express themselves and to add emotion to a song.