What Really Grinds My Gears : Obligatory Swearing in Music

This is The Chronicles of Trevor, the blog where (bleep) happens, I don't give a (bleep), and (bleep) always hits the fan.

Wanna know what really grinds my gears? How modern pop music always squeezes in an F-bomb or two.

Keep in mind, I do think that swearing in music is okay, as long as it isn't forced, or unusually put into a song. This post will be about those songs that fail miserably at this.

I've noticed a trend with modern music, starting with the most disgustingly trashy song of this decade, "abcdefu", If you've been on the internet, you've heard that godawful Cluster F-Bomb in a couple of short videos. I've hated that song since its inception.

Next is the track "I'm Good" by Bebe Rexha. This song samples "I'm Blue (Da Ba Dee)" by Eiffel 65, a good song from the 2000s. It uses an extremely similar chorus, with the line "Imma have the best f****n' night of my life", which I'm sure Eiffel 65 would've objected to. Keep in mind, Bebe Rexha has only 1 good song in my book, "The Way I Are (Dance With Somebody". So if you want to have the best night of your life, listen to the original song, and don't listen to the unoriginal garbage that is "I'm Good".

Taylor Swift's new album has songs that contain F-words in them, and as such, I was furious.

I've been listening to her since the days of "Love Story" and now she's joining the F-Bomb Bandwagon?! Mission failed, we'll get 'em next time.

Another artist that shocked me and the entire world with F-bombs is Carly Rae Jepsen. Yup. That Carly Rae Jepsen. When I heard she joined the F-Bomb Bandwagon, I was like "wait, WHAT?!" Her music has always been annoyingly sugary bubblegum pop, and to see a young, innocent teen star go downhill like that is hard, even though I was never a fan of CRJ in the first place.

But it's not the artists themselves doing this, it's their RECORD LABELS. So if I were signed to a big record label, and they said "f-words are the rage, so use them", I'd start my own label for my own tracks.

But I digress. This trend has been tarnishing music and making it harder for parents to find suitable music for their children, especially since all of the popular artists are joining the F-Bomb Bandwagon.

This, alongside the advent of TikTok, has been ruining all kinds of musicians' careers, and, as a musician myself, this really grinds my gears.

Thank you for reading!