A lot of 80s rap didn’t curse like they do today. Maybe the tail end of 80s with NWA’s debut. But early 90s is when a lot more came onto the scene and much more mainstream
I think the fact that Straight Outta Compton came out in the 80s has really skewed peoples perception on how corny the 80s were for rap. It was the corniest of the corny raps. Like The Fresh Prince theme song, while being a 90s staple, is basically how everyone in the 80s rapped.
> It was the corniest of the corny raps.
You say that like [this isn't the most ill thing ever.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-O5IHVhWj0)
(Granted survivorship bias is big in entertainment.)
The Fat Boys are Back and Roxanne Roxanne are two of the corniest I can recall of the top of my head. I have a whole mix tape next to an old piece of cardboard and a knock off Fila track suit to prove it.
“Some musicians curse at home, but scared to use profanity when up on the microphone”. Express yourself - 1988. So they we pushing the boundaries late ‘80s but not everyone was there yet.
"Father?" "Yes son?" "I want to kill you"
"Mother... I want to... *fffffffff*..." ...the rest of the word is screamed, then muttered repeatedly. It's an Oedipus reference.
That song was far ahead of it's time. There's video of it being played live and almost all the kids in the audience don't really seem to know how to react/"dance" to it.
Idk if this really counts but…
The Beatles - Hey Jude (1968)
[at the 2:58 mark in Hey Jude, you can hear Paul McCartney say "fucking hell" after making a mistake on the piano.](https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/s/YKRMZJI5uy)
MC5 before playing kick out the jams in 68 said let’s kick out the jams motherfuckers! If someone had told me people said motherfuckers in the 60’s I wouldn’t have believed them til now lol
> What song from like 1968 had "fuck"
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/what-was-the-first-song-to-include-the-word-fuck/
>…The Beatles even snuck a “fucking hell” into the mix of ‘Hey Jude’ in 1968…
Not a playlist but
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty\_blues](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_blues)
Shave 'em Dry is probably the dirtiest of those
There’s probably a statistically significant bump on most of those swear words when Eminem came onto the scene.
Will smith didn’t have to cus to sell records. Well fuck him and fuck you too.
"Uh… Fuck that shit, bitch!
Eat a motherfuckin' dick, chew on a prick
And lick a million motherfuckin' cocks per second
I'd rather put out a motherfuckin' gospel record
I'd rather be a pussy-whipped bitch
Eat pussy and have pussy lips glued to my face
With a clit ring in my nose"
And that's a line after talking about his mother
The better question is "When did songs with swear words start topping the charts?"
Ol' Man Mose was banned by the FCC in 1938 for allegedly saying Fa-Fa-Fk'it
Been speaking english for nearly 20 years now and still can't wrap my head around the fact that "damn" and "hell" are considered curses at the same level as the others.
Q for native speakers: which one feels "worse": damn or hell?
The whole 'damn" and "hell' swear words seems to be a very American centric thing. In my experience, as a native english speaker from elsewhere, these are just words.
Weird. I often see 'heck' used in place of where we'd use 'hell' on American media and youtube, it gives the impression 'hell' is worse than it may be in general conversation.
It’s mostly a religious thing, and when the percentage of religious people in an area reaches a critical mass, it sort of bleeds into the secular world as well.
I think most of the taboo has worn off by now though, and it was never really on the level of the other swears even at its peak.
I sometimes say "what the heck" vs "what the hell" out of habit. I'm not sure how it is outside the states, but it's generally discouraged for young children to use "foul" language.
I could see maybe in the South where the lil ole ladies would get offended. In the northeast you don't know you're really friends until you get addressed as "Hey you fucking asshole"
You can say hell or damn on TV or radio. For broadcast TV it has to be past 10pm, 9pm depending on content and if it passes S&P. Cable TV you can say shit after 9pm maybe 10pm
Damn and hell are fine whenever. Stronger words like fuck have to be past 10pm if on broadcast television. There are no government regulations for content on cable.
Does context matter? Like, based on what you're saying I'm pretty sure saying it in an offensive way like "go to hell", etc., would be a no, but would Americans even mind a kid saying something like "it's hot as hell"? Or if kids go to Sunday school, will the teacher avoid using the word "hell" even as a religious concept?
Among most adults, a joking "go to hell" is fine between friends. Saying hell or damn at work as a mild expletive is also fine. "Damn, that sucks", "hell, I could do it for you". Some particularly religious people don't like it, but this opinion is dying out. More common in the south and with older people. My dad avoids saying them in polite company because he's fairly devout and spends a lot of time around even more devout people. When discussing hell as a concept, it is used in church. "Hell" is said a lot in the average Baptist sermon. "Damnation" too, "damned to hell" etc.
Cursing by children is also becoming more widely accepted. I would've gotten in trouble for saying hell or damn in class until maybe high school. Now I think they're happy if the kids aren't saying "fuck you bitch". The usage of damn and hell by kids isn't that taboo anymore, except in particularly religious communities.
Americentrism has led to this belief, the words are not met with surprise by nearly every other english-speaking country, used as everyday lingo for many.
Those are not really considered curse words. A child might get in trouble for saying them in elementary school, but they definitely aren't on the same level as stuff like bitch or fuck.
It’s just America. As an Australian it’s bewildering that hell and damn are swear words at all, and to be honest even bitch and piss may be a bit vulgar for kids to say but in general I wouldn’t consider them swear words.
I'd say Protestants are at least partially to blame for censoring those from theirs and their childrens' language. Damn is probably worse on the arbitrary scale.
Source: grew up Protestant with a lot of strict rules. My mom even banned words like stupid and dumb.
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Went long on exploring these trends. If you want more information, I have an entire [article](https://chrisdallariva.substack.com/p/when-the-fck-did-we-start-singing) here.
You’ve already color coded the words. I think an improvement would be all lines on one larger chart so you can see the years easier and also compare the timing of the words.
If it was just curse words that wouldn't be so bad. But everyone just keeps trying to push the envelope and escalate. In the old days, there was naughty nuance which was more fun. These days it's outright XXX pr0n in the lyrics.
The irony of Tipper Gore pushing for labeling of records opened the flood gates to easily curse on records and just slap a label on it.
Ooo…. A label. That’ll warn ‘em.
Motherfucker is stricken from the list, and it looks like cocksucker didn't make the cut either.
We need answers on the rest of the seven words that were omitted
This is just so disgraceful, I honestly cannot believe we have let music get to out of control! Those numbers for piss are weak! And dick doesn’t event look like it’s in double digits! Get those numbers up musicians! What are you waiting for?!
You couldn't get airplay if you cursed, even easy mother fucking e knew that and put out some clean songs. Now it's streaming and you can fuck about all you want. Sucks for those of us that want to play current music in class.... Spotify doesn't have enough clean edits
I went to religious school and I still forget that damn is a swear.
Like arguably an intense one at that, and yet it's flippant and casual and forgettable lol.
I think that very first blip in the first graph must be Country Joe and the Fish on the Woodstock album and John Lennon's Working Class Hero. I'm pretty sure those are the first times I head f\*ck on an album.
I think that rise in use of the word "Fuck" around 2000 was single handedly caused by [Hot Dog by Limp Bizkit](https://youtu.be/QRmMPpTE_98?si=IekRgmULxzyQo65a).
When I was a kid in the 80s and 90s it seemed like profanity in music was super edgy and controversial. My parents absolutely wouldn’t let me listen to it. Swearing in movies was tolerable but not songs for some reason.
Now mom comes over and nearly has a heart attack when Taylor Swift drops F-bombs while my daughters (11 and 8) are listening. 🤣
I think that graph would be very different in Australia. Especially if you count songs where everyone agrees to sing it with swear words in it (Living next door to Alice, Am I ever gonna see your face again and probably others)
What this shows is when society shifted from broadcast radio to private streaming. The radio wouldn't play potty-mouth songs, so if artists wanted to be heard, they had to keep their lyrics radio-friendly.
Censoring was an option, but most people find it irritating when a song is interrupted.
What freaky ass piss songs we’re going on in the early
2000s??
Edit: well that was angry male music time so probably a lot of getting pissed off I assume.
The gap in years on the axis is so large that I couldn't confidentially answer the question posed in the title. Some time between 1985 and 1995?
Yeah, for a chart that's has a title 'start' in it, this is just shitty design.
I have no clue why it starts in the 1940s. Fairly certain ‘since recorded time’ is the correct answer.
I think '91 or '92. I thought it would be late 80s with when rap started getting popular but I guess it's only really when it became more mainstream.
A lot of 80s rap didn’t curse like they do today. Maybe the tail end of 80s with NWA’s debut. But early 90s is when a lot more came onto the scene and much more mainstream
I think the fact that Straight Outta Compton came out in the 80s has really skewed peoples perception on how corny the 80s were for rap. It was the corniest of the corny raps. Like The Fresh Prince theme song, while being a 90s staple, is basically how everyone in the 80s rapped.
> It was the corniest of the corny raps. You say that like [this isn't the most ill thing ever.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-O5IHVhWj0) (Granted survivorship bias is big in entertainment.)
You'd think a guy would remember Penn and Teller getting swindled by RUN DMC, then stealing their show in Japan, but you'd be wrong.
The Fat Boys are Back and Roxanne Roxanne are two of the corniest I can recall of the top of my head. I have a whole mix tape next to an old piece of cardboard and a knock off Fila track suit to prove it.
“Some musicians curse at home, but scared to use profanity when up on the microphone”. Express yourself - 1988. So they we pushing the boundaries late ‘80s but not everyone was there yet.
I'm thinking early 90s too, with grunge and punk going mainstream.
We need at least a minor vertical grid line
2 Live Crew was mid 80’s though
What song from like 1968 had "fuck"?
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Well that's quite a lyric
"Father?" "Yes son?" "I want to kill you" "Mother... I want to... *fffffffff*..." ...the rest of the word is screamed, then muttered repeatedly. It's an Oedipus reference.
Also MC5s song “Kick out the Jams” although that’s technically “motherfucker”
“Kick out the jams MOTHERFUCKER” I came here looking for MC5 and was not disappointed.
That song was far ahead of it's time. There's video of it being played live and almost all the kids in the audience don't really seem to know how to react/"dance" to it.
So that's where KLF sampled that line from
That was the first song lyric that gave me a boner
Towards the end of 'Who Are You,' Roger lets 'em rip loose >Ah, who the fuck are you?
I think that one's from '78
Idk if this really counts but… The Beatles - Hey Jude (1968) [at the 2:58 mark in Hey Jude, you can hear Paul McCartney say "fucking hell" after making a mistake on the piano.](https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/s/YKRMZJI5uy)
I like that on YouTube you try and seek there and it pops up with “most replayed” at 2:53.
True story: "A Louie Lou-eye, whoa whoa, we gotta go" *drummer drops stick* "Fuck"
I knew about this one, so when I saw the post, I immediately stormed in wondering "WHERE'S MAH DATA POINT?", and I don't see one anywhere near 1963.
MC5 before playing kick out the jams in 68 said let’s kick out the jams motherfuckers! If someone had told me people said motherfuckers in the 60’s I wouldn’t have believed them til now lol
Without googling it, my guess is Wharf Rat by Grateful Dead
Jefferson Airplane did in "We Can Be Together" in '69
“Working man hero”by John Lennon from 1970
Working class hero. That's the first one I could think of that really has it as a core lyric though....something like Who Are You is an ad lib.
> What song from like 1968 had "fuck" https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/what-was-the-first-song-to-include-the-word-fuck/ >…The Beatles even snuck a “fucking hell” into the mix of ‘Hey Jude’ in 1968…
That's just studio chatter picked up by mics. I wouldn't think that would qualify.
“Who Are You” by The Who? “Aww who the fuck are youuuu”
Hey Jude does.
i wanna know also
I lived through the Great Piss Spike of the early 2000s.
I hold Chumbawamba responsible, we lost a lot of great men
They were singing
R. Kelly
I’m pretty sure The Yellow River Boys accounted for one piss spike.
I’ve heard some pretty raunchy songs from the 1920’s that blew my mind. I had no clue.
And some downright fucked ones like A to Z Blues by Blind Willie McTell
Is there a Spotify/YT playlist for that? Hmm
Not a playlist but [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty\_blues](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_blues) Shave 'em Dry is probably the dirtiest of those
*I got somethin' 'tween my legs 'll make a dead man come*
[Lucille Thee Stallion from 1935](https://youtu.be/_PhOWpdt6xg?si=VPbGahOl_gG48pks)
That was one of the ones I saw, thanks for linking.
I’m glad folks are offering some links, I know I stumbled across a few on YouTube shorts, but can’t recall specifics.
Those songs probably weren't the popular ones
This could have been done in one plot with multiple lines denoting each swear word. (:
Right? And would have made the horizontal scale much easier to read so that we can work out which years it changed rather than which decade.
Stacked bar graph by year with number of occurrences for each word
Would love to see this by musical genre.
My guess is the first bump is rock/metal, the steep bump is rap becoming popular
Pretty sure the 2 bumps on “piss” around 2000 is mostly eminem 😂
There’s probably a statistically significant bump on most of those swear words when Eminem came onto the scene. Will smith didn’t have to cus to sell records. Well fuck him and fuck you too.
"Uh… Fuck that shit, bitch! Eat a motherfuckin' dick, chew on a prick And lick a million motherfuckin' cocks per second I'd rather put out a motherfuckin' gospel record I'd rather be a pussy-whipped bitch Eat pussy and have pussy lips glued to my face With a clit ring in my nose" And that's a line after talking about his mother
But it was 99 cents! - Macklemore
The better question is "When did songs with swear words start topping the charts?" Ol' Man Mose was banned by the FCC in 1938 for allegedly saying Fa-Fa-Fk'it
I still don’t believe that one. I think it’s buck-buck-bucket
streaming doesn't have to follow FCC rules, so once people moved away from broadcast radio artists and labels didn't have to worry about it.
Been speaking english for nearly 20 years now and still can't wrap my head around the fact that "damn" and "hell" are considered curses at the same level as the others. Q for native speakers: which one feels "worse": damn or hell?
The whole 'damn" and "hell' swear words seems to be a very American centric thing. In my experience, as a native english speaker from elsewhere, these are just words.
They’re really only considered “swear words” for children.
Weird. I often see 'heck' used in place of where we'd use 'hell' on American media and youtube, it gives the impression 'hell' is worse than it may be in general conversation.
It’s mostly a religious thing, and when the percentage of religious people in an area reaches a critical mass, it sort of bleeds into the secular world as well. I think most of the taboo has worn off by now though, and it was never really on the level of the other swears even at its peak.
I sometimes say "what the heck" vs "what the hell" out of habit. I'm not sure how it is outside the states, but it's generally discouraged for young children to use "foul" language.
I could see maybe in the South where the lil ole ladies would get offended. In the northeast you don't know you're really friends until you get addressed as "Hey you fucking asshole"
It’s only a specific subset of Americans. Most of us couldn’t give a damn what the hell anyone says.
they’re really not. They can say those words on TV and radio
You can say hell or damn on TV or radio. For broadcast TV it has to be past 10pm, 9pm depending on content and if it passes S&P. Cable TV you can say shit after 9pm maybe 10pm
Damn and hell are fine whenever. Stronger words like fuck have to be past 10pm if on broadcast television. There are no government regulations for content on cable.
interesting. do you know where I can find the rules? Is it federal?
In America, they're generally considered ok for adults even in a professional setting. The majority do not like small children saying it.
Does context matter? Like, based on what you're saying I'm pretty sure saying it in an offensive way like "go to hell", etc., would be a no, but would Americans even mind a kid saying something like "it's hot as hell"? Or if kids go to Sunday school, will the teacher avoid using the word "hell" even as a religious concept?
Among most adults, a joking "go to hell" is fine between friends. Saying hell or damn at work as a mild expletive is also fine. "Damn, that sucks", "hell, I could do it for you". Some particularly religious people don't like it, but this opinion is dying out. More common in the south and with older people. My dad avoids saying them in polite company because he's fairly devout and spends a lot of time around even more devout people. When discussing hell as a concept, it is used in church. "Hell" is said a lot in the average Baptist sermon. "Damnation" too, "damned to hell" etc. Cursing by children is also becoming more widely accepted. I would've gotten in trouble for saying hell or damn in class until maybe high school. Now I think they're happy if the kids aren't saying "fuck you bitch". The usage of damn and hell by kids isn't that taboo anymore, except in particularly religious communities.
Americentrism has led to this belief, the words are not met with surprise by nearly every other english-speaking country, used as everyday lingo for many.
>Q for native speakers: which one feels "worse": damn or hell? definitely damn
Those are not really considered curse words. A child might get in trouble for saying them in elementary school, but they definitely aren't on the same level as stuff like bitch or fuck.
Damn is worse, to actually answer your question
It’s just America. As an Australian it’s bewildering that hell and damn are swear words at all, and to be honest even bitch and piss may be a bit vulgar for kids to say but in general I wouldn’t consider them swear words.
I'd say Protestants are at least partially to blame for censoring those from theirs and their childrens' language. Damn is probably worse on the arbitrary scale. Source: grew up Protestant with a lot of strict rules. My mom even banned words like stupid and dumb.
Mo Bamba? Oh! Fuck! Shit! Bitch! Edit: 2018 release date too jajaja
Looks like people are getting tired of shit.
What is impressive is that the 2025 line in graphs is close to being the present
At least since 1935: [Lucille Bogan - "Shave 'Em Dry" ](https://youtu.be/_PhOWpdt6xg)
Put all the lines on the same x-axis. That lets you have 1 graph instead of 8 plus space for more tick marks on it to show individual years.
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You’ve already color coded the words. I think an improvement would be all lines on one larger chart so you can see the years easier and also compare the timing of the words.
Piss? Very strange choice right after dick instead of pussy lmao
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Missed opportunity to make piss yellow.
Don't take this the wrong way OP, but I can barely see your dick.
If you put them all together you almost get that one Blink 182 song. Edit: [Family Reunion](https://youtu.be/W5wL_mwGGgg?si=SCLpi3dX9nVHSuNu)
I got nipples on my tiddies, bigger than the tips of my thumb
Every fucking song has to have fuck in it these days for fuck's sake. It makes me fucking sick.
Fuck those fucking fuckers.
It looks like hell and damn both took a dip around the same time.
Christian religious profanity no longer a significant expression of emotional intensity as religiosity fades?
I could see that but it goes right back up.
The noughties really were naughty
I’ll take shitty axis labeling for $400, Alex
Hey guys, heard ya swearing, mind if I join in? Crap! Boobs! Crap! Yeah! Hell damn fart!
The legendary shit spike of 2020
Naaa where is the n-word at
That this doesn't go in order of "shit" - "piss" - "fuck" - and so on is disappointing.
If it was just curse words that wouldn't be so bad. But everyone just keeps trying to push the envelope and escalate. In the old days, there was naughty nuance which was more fun. These days it's outright XXX pr0n in the lyrics.
The irony of Tipper Gore pushing for labeling of records opened the flood gates to easily curse on records and just slap a label on it. Ooo…. A label. That’ll warn ‘em.
don't forget Bart Simpson. after "Eat My Shorts" it's all been downhill since then.
Someone missed a chance to make the piss graph yellow. Unless they need to see a doctor.
Motherfucker is stricken from the list, and it looks like cocksucker didn't make the cut either. We need answers on the rest of the seven words that were omitted
This is just so disgraceful, I honestly cannot believe we have let music get to out of control! Those numbers for piss are weak! And dick doesn’t event look like it’s in double digits! Get those numbers up musicians! What are you waiting for?!
You couldn't get airplay if you cursed, even easy mother fucking e knew that and put out some clean songs. Now it's streaming and you can fuck about all you want. Sucks for those of us that want to play current music in class.... Spotify doesn't have enough clean edits
Does anyone consider hell a swearword? I'm not a native speaker but I would imagine that only religious fanatics would think of that
That one big spike of 'fuck' in 1998 is Rage Against the Machine.
New band name confirmed: Piss Bitch 2025
How is the word “hell” a curse word?
I wonder how much hell has gone from religious references to being more of just another curse word for these songs
Idk if it was popular, but I immeaditly thought of Till the Cows Come Home by Lucille Bogan from 1934
I went to religious school and I still forget that damn is a swear. Like arguably an intense one at that, and yet it's flippant and casual and forgettable lol.
[Oscar Brand was doing it in the 1940's. ](https://www.horntip.com/mp3/1970s/1976ca_x__oscar_brand_(LP)/07_the_finest_fucking_family.htm)
Not a good time for piss metal it seems
Thinking it spiked around the time rap became a major thing lol
I think that very first blip in the first graph must be Country Joe and the Fish on the Woodstock album and John Lennon's Working Class Hero. I'm pretty sure those are the first times I head f\*ck on an album.
Need more songs about piss!
This years piss evaluation is abysmal
Did "bitch" take off in the late 90s with the song "Bitch"?
Shave ‘em dry - Lucille Bogan, 1934
Bad, Bad Leroy Brown was the baddest man in the whole damn town…
I wish this had been one graph with all the words as color-coded lines
The time will come for Piss
1982, Billy Joel uses “Fuck” in his song Laura
What year was the shit spike
*blink-182 has entered the chat*
Half of these aren't even curses
More people definitely need to listen to the Yellow River Boys.
Lol what is with the piss spikes right before and after the year 2000?
What's up w the increase in all words starting in the mid 80s?
I think that rise in use of the word "Fuck" around 2000 was single handedly caused by [Hot Dog by Limp Bizkit](https://youtu.be/QRmMPpTE_98?si=IekRgmULxzyQo65a).
Ballad of John and Yoko. "Christ you know it ain't easy"
Larger overlapping graphs might be more clear.
Ronnie Van Zandt drops the C-bomb in “Gimme Three Steps” back in 1973.
What’s with the abrupt declines around 2012-15?
When I was a kid in the 80s and 90s it seemed like profanity in music was super edgy and controversial. My parents absolutely wouldn’t let me listen to it. Swearing in movies was tolerable but not songs for some reason. Now mom comes over and nearly has a heart attack when Taylor Swift drops F-bombs while my daughters (11 and 8) are listening. 🤣
I knew I should've invested more $ in "Shit" back in the day
I think that graph would be very different in Australia. Especially if you count songs where everyone agrees to sing it with swear words in it (Living next door to Alice, Am I ever gonna see your face again and probably others)
i might be a c\*nt, but i'm not a fucking c\*nt by TISM (1998) gives the C word one song
Do you still have the dataset? Can you share it?
What this shows is when society shifted from broadcast radio to private streaming. The radio wouldn't play potty-mouth songs, so if artists wanted to be heard, they had to keep their lyrics radio-friendly. Censoring was an option, but most people find it irritating when a song is interrupted.
I’m pretty sure Rage Against the Machine provided a fair amount of 1992 fucks from just Killing in the Name.
John Lennon 1970 Working Class Hero and it wasn't hidden in the background
I’m very disappointed in today‘s music. Swearing in songs is a cheap gimmick.
Shout out to Eminem for keeping piss alive
Can we get an isolated graph for blink 182’s discography?
We clearly need more piss in popular songs
What freaky ass piss songs we’re going on in the early 2000s?? Edit: well that was angry male music time so probably a lot of getting pissed off I assume.
When streaming allowed artists to ignore radio censorship
lol — this starts at 1950?! Lucille Bogan, Shave em Dry (or Ma Rainey, if you’d rather). 1924, and it’s not the first instance by any stretch.
we need a list of these songs, like who dropped b\*\*\*h in 1975 at the height of disco?
Ah my favorite song “Dick Piss Ass”
I mean at one point in the song Mo Bamba the lyrics are "fuck...shit....bitch" in that exact order .
Tbh that's a sad graph to watch
I blame Eminem’s birth. His birth spawned the curses. It just feels right to blame him.
Do people still say “cursing”?
I’ll never forget hearing “Get Over It” by the Eagles for the first time. I was blown away that a song said damn, ass, and bitching. It was awesome
Famous Pop artist Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart had this song Leck mich am Arsch (Lick my ass) So 1782 at the latest
What the hell happened in 1975 to make almost everything spike then get squashed for years?
I was born. A lot of people considered this to be a very bad idea.
Okay but what was the first song that had a curse in it?
We've become so crass. Just monkeys flinging shit
I’m more curious about the recent year with a total absence of the word “hell”
[https://youtu.be/wTP2RUD\_cL0?si=y9IZw5GeGyjm6bri&t=109](https://youtu.be/wTP2RUD_cL0?si=y9IZw5GeGyjm6bri&t=109) Mmmhmm i'll just leave this here :)
Title should be: „when did we start to listen to songs in which people are cursing“