A Great Lyricist doesn’t need to use Curse Words

This bar graph is basically shittiness level of Taylor Swift albums



Her first three albums were actually really good. Now it's just sad.

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This bar graph is basically shittiness level of Taylor Swift albums

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She's just like Chuck E Schumer trying desperately to sound relevant and cool by using those hip curse words

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Her first three albums were actually really good

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All her albums are fantastic, esp the latest, The Life Of A Showgirl.

Look at the results: Swift's 2.2 B net worth doesn't lie.

I want to hear T Swift say “whore”

I don't care for it in songs, and I don't use curse words in my songs, but I've noticed in recent times that people who cuss quite a bit, sell a lot of music.
Go figure.

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It depends on the song and how the curse words are used.

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a couple of examples where it fits

Using it once
Using it more than once

A great lyricist uses all words at their disposal.

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I don't remember dylan or hank swearing

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You might want to go listen to "The Hurricane" again.



You are twisting what I said. I wasn't implying that a good lyricist needs to use curse words. What I am saying is that a good lyricist doesn't feel the need to put boundaries on how they express themselves.

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Do you have favorite lyricist?

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Several, I think only Warren Zevon used profanity.

"Send lawyers, guns, and money, the shite has hit the fan" (1989)

I think that's appropriate for the song.

Kodachrome (1973) - Paul Simon was one of the first to push the boundary. As a teenager I liked it a lot and it seems like radio stations would delete "crap" from "when I think about all the crap I learned in high school", at least for a while but ultimately stopped.

Later, I was in college and one of the guys in the dorm had Harry Nillson's Nillson Schmillson album with the song "You're breaking my heart" on it. It includes the line "You're breaking my heart, you're tearing it apart, so frick you!" We were amazed. And played it often. Harry Nillson died a few years later and at his funeral George Harrison yelled out "frick you" and the guests broke into singing the song.

Back to Zevon - 2 years before Zevon was diagnosed with terminal cancer (2002 I think) he wasn't feeling good and wrote the song "My shite's fricked Up". Because that's how he felt. By then it was pretty much the wild west for using profanity.

Personally, I like occasional profanity to emphasize a point. But non-stop profanity for the shock value, not a fan. That train left the station long ago anyway.