Blocking inappropriate music for teen- how?

[WhiteLily1]

My child is 12 nearly 13 and is getting into music. I thought Amazon family plan would allow me to set my child up under our household and set parental controls to block explicit lyrics on his iPhone. After an hour of frustrating searching through settings I can’t find how to do this.
Is anyone able to help? How can my child listen to music but I have some control over inappropriate songs and podcasts.

I'm not sure if you can. Use it as a discussion point instead of trying to create an insulated bubble and explain the history of the genre, the meaning of the lyrics, why you do/do not like it, what they feel about it etc.

You can, I have it set up on my amazon music profile for my 12yr old. I'm going via android though? Have you set them their own profile?

Please don't do this with the music.
It doesn't pan out well. It will just make it seem cooler. And he won't be able to discuss anything he comes across with you as he will have done so on secret so won't dare tell you.
At that age you just won't be able to find anything to block music as the only marker on music of an age rating tends to be "12"
For podcasts you may find something to block content as some of those are rated as for adults.
But really I agree with the above poster. Use them as talking points.
The teenage years are hard. Burying your head in the sand and trying to keep them in a bubble doesn't work.

Mines is done via my actual amazon account . Profiles - manage content and devices

They can listen to the edited versions still..... ita not hard to fill in the blanks. My eldest dd is into mainly black rapping, I felt like a prude listening to the lyrics about "pounding her pussy" etc etc especially when it's on a house party play list 🤣

A lot of them at that age (not all of them, granted, but that's partly why limiting it isn't going to work anyway) won't really listen to the lyrics as closely as you think they are and won't realise the double meaning in many of those songs. Education works better than limitation ime

It’s not really about education though for me. Lyrics now on some songs are extremely graphic and sexually inappropriate. And I don’t just mean ‘sex on the beach’ kind of 90’s lyrics.
Clearly some of you don’t know what’s out there if you think that every song is appropriate for a 12 / 13 year old child.
Yes of course they can hear it on a friends device - firstly not at all the same as giving their own private library to search through and secondary thankfully most kids my child hangs out with either don’t have smart phones at all or have extremely limited apps- I am the more lax parent of the group.
Also how does educating them make it ok to listen to disgusting sexually violent lyrics. We as parents have a duty to protect tweens and young teens from this crap.
At 15/16 it’s a different story but we are not there yet.
Thank you to those posters who have given me some tech solutions

Lots of song don’t have a double meaning. There is one very clear meaning trust me and it can’t really go over their heads!

Thank you- I have been through so many settings- added children age 13 parental dash board, house hold members on Amazon etc but nothing helps me! I am trying to access Amazon music on an iPhone. I know you can do it via fire but I need it for iPhone.
You are able to toggle explicit lyrics off when in the app but the child can just easily go back and change the setting so totally useless

On an iPhone in settings under screen time, content and privacy (you’ll need to turn this on and Set up a password), App Store media web and games there are various options and one is for non explicit music.

And to think about the outrage the Sex pistols caused in 77.
Looking back it was nothing.

Ok interesting- yes I already had screen time turned on and clean lyrics selected. I guess this is Apple Music- looking at it family subscription is £16.99 pm. So is this what you use? Does it work ok?

Yes quite. I would be more than happy for my child to listen to anything by the sex pistols. How ironic.

On Spotify you can turn off explicit songs, I'm not sure how it works on a family account as on mine there is no password to stop them untoggling it

I remember when I was younger, my mum re-recorded my now that what I call music CD to remove Sex On The Beach. I thought it was ridiculous at the time, I think it's ridiculous now.

Educating and controlled exposure is better than trying to pretend it doesn't exist...

Have a look at some of the Prodigy, Nine Inch Nails, 50 Cent and Eminem lyrics from the 90s and then tell me they weren't graphic back then or are worse now. Some of them were banned but we could still watch them on MTV.

Have them grow up in a bubble and limit their exposure to anything that might upset them or teach them how to cope with hearing things that aren't always nice or appropriate?

What @BeachHutsAndDeckchairs said.

Just tell your 12 year old you don’t want them listening to inappropriate music. Surely they know what that means

The thing is almost any 12 year old can turn off the settings so they need to buy into this or there's no point. Can you just speak to your child about the songs that bother you and why?

Or honestly - get headphones for them if it's bothering you? My daughter listens to specific albums things nonstop (she's on the spectrum so gets stuck on one thing for a long time - right now it's the Six soundtrack) and it gets super annoying so we got her headphones.

She's 12 and I don't restrict her music for whatever that's worth.

They are worse than most of those, although I wouldn’t have had any exposure to that sort of music myself at 12/13. I loved prodigy - but when I was 16. My parents protected me until I was an older teen, which I am thankful for- I didn’t even know that stuff existed until I was older.
Again what does educating look like? I mean would you say the same for allowing porn videos on a 12 year olds phone? Just educate them as to what they are seeing and then it’s fine to watch them whenever they want?
I really don’t get what you are saying.
I don’t want to pretend it exists. Controlled access is what I’m aiming for until they are older.

I’m now worried I’ve been taking my settings for granted so going to try playing some ride songs! I’ve certainly not heard any rude words but maybe kids are careful.

I didn’t need to for my 15 year old daughter either when she was 12 or any time. Because I just know she wouldn’t be searching for and getting encourage possibly to play very explicit songs- she’s just not into that.
My son however is a totally different story. I don’t want to ban all music apps (which I could easily do) just control the very explicit stuff.

Im trying to find a way to set up parental controls on an app (apple / amazon / Spotify that allow me to control the explicit stuff in some way. Obviously if the child can turn it off themselves then that’s not parental controlled and totally useless.
He does use headphones as listens on the bus mainly.

I was 10 singing and dancing around in my bedroom to ‘my neck,my back…’ by Khia in 2002 when it came out 🥴
Not saying it’s right, but I don’t think you can shelter a young teenager too much when it comes to music.

So true. Along with snoop dogg and Tupac. I used to listen to some kinda bad stuff🙈 but I’m ok!