Alanis Morissette - You Oughta Know

Hykker wrote: As far as explicit language goes, I'm not sure I agree...there's plenty of angst in YOK without lines that could get stations in trouble with the FCC. Plenty of ways to get your point across without actual obscenities. Sadly, we live in a time when coarse language is everywhere.

It's similar in nature for me with Ed Sheeran's Don't on his X album which is clean. If you hear the explicit version on the Rick Ross Remix as he originally intended to do it before a father convinced him to make a clean album there are certain instances where having the curse word is more appropriate to the song's content then not having it.

If you take the going down in a theatre part (and the sacrasm behind it)...and the "are you thinking of me when you f**k her" and substitute some nice clean words you might as well censor art while you are at it because its too obscene as well.

Course language might be everywhere but just like I would not alter a work of art, hearing the curse words in some songs is an essential part of the song. Now not every song falls into that category.

Don't get me wrong, often the clean radio edits of songs are smoother and shorter and better to listen to. But since 1993 the Hot 100 has seen plenty of explicit versions of songs. Last year alone I had to assemble like 80 percent of the top 40 as explicit and clean. The language was rarely an issue before 1993's rap and r and b explosion. It is here to stay....

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