Eighty percent of pop songs contain swear words. Kids who have moved on from the “children’s” genre are suddenly faced with profanity and bad lyrics. I love music, especially pop. But too much of it swears. For example, "Payphone" is the second most popular song by Maroon Five, and it swears nine times. Some 10- and 11-year-olds already hear this music. Some may say that it is an introduction to the real world, but hearing swearing will lead children to think bad words are OK.
Some bands have already found a solution to this problem by creating clean versions of songs. But in the end, to find the clean version, you first have to know the song swears. And even though there are clean versions of the song digitally, the radio may still play the unclean version. If songs didn’t swear, this would greatly reduce the swearing in the world and would attract more people to popular music.
Isaac Kaufman
Draper