It hits different when the pop star swears. By Danielle Pascual Taylor Swift has always been explicit in her songs — delivering crystal-clear messages with uber-specific details. And in the last five ...

Young fans of Olivia Rodrigo, Eminem and other music stars have been shown explicit lyrics on Spotify even when users have blocked explicit content. The streaming service often shows a song's original ...

More than two thirds of Billboard 100 number one songs that charted in 2017 feature explicit lyrics, a new study shows based on Spotify API data. Our taste for expletive-filled lyrics and has grown ...

Among the many media tributes to late musical icon Prince is one of the more interesting constitutional moments of the 1980s, when his “Purple Rain” album set off a hearing in the Senate that had ...

If you are a fan of music that is old enough to listen to naughty words without a parent's permission, you likely want to hear your music as the artist recorded it, explicit lyrics or not. A few days ...

Rick James, Aaron Hall and Snoop Dogg are just a few of the artists who made songs that made us dance (and blush) with some pretty explicit lyrics Every generation, parents complain to their kids that ...

It took less than 15 months for TikTok to commandeer the attention of the music industry. The platform combines a giant and still-growing user base with a vaunted algorithm that repeatedly discovers ...

Sabrina Carpenter told Gayle King her new album, Man’s Best Friend, “is not for any pearl clutchers,” as she leans into explicit lyrics and bold visuals Sabrina Carpenter recently sat down with Gayle ...

Country music doesn’t have many songs with explicit lyrics. Sometimes, an artist will throw in a few less-offensive curse words like damn or hell. However, most albums in the genre won’t come with a ...

Young fans of Olivia Rodrigo, Eminem and other music stars have been shown explicit lyrics on Spotify even when users have blocked explicit content. The streaming service often shows a song's original ...