Sexualised lyrics on mainstream radio

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I am far from a prude, but I'm really shocked by some of the lyrics I've been hearing on mainstream radio 1 at school rush hour times this week.

From Sabrina Carpenter with "tears run down my thighs" (yes it bleeps out you get me wet) but still leaves the other part which is equally bad. The Billie Eilish / Charlie XCX - I love your black lacy panties, want to pull them to the side, lick it, kiss it, get up all on it, ride it... and then there's all the much publicised fuss about Taylor Swift's Wood.

I don't see an issue with these women writing these songs. They're grown adults. But surely the radio stations have a responsibility to either play more family friendly edits or not play at all during mainstream hours. What the heck happened to the concept of a watershed?

It just makes me a bit sad what we're doing to our kids if they're listening to this constantly, going round singing it.

The Sabrina carpenter tears one makes me sick, I really don’t like her and her over sexualised songs nearly every single one is about it

I dunno, maybe it’s the era I grew up (I call it 00’s sleaze) but that time seemed way more sexual in regards to music/music videos compared to the innuendo kids/teens get now! Eminem, Christina, Britney, American pie, blink 182, it was all very raunchy.

Twas ever thus.

It's nothing new. There were plenty of sexualised lyrics and pop stars in the 90s too.

I was a teen in the 00s as well and listened to all of them but I don’t remember it being so blatantly obvious what they were singing about, yes innuendo etc but Sabrina is very very obvious what she’s on about I just don’t like her and other artists (if you can call them that really) are doing the same

I don’t like the Sabrina Carpenter song but I think it’s something you wouldn’t understand if you didn’t already get it iyswim. I wouldn’t apply that to the Charlie XCX one (which I’ve never heard, but just from the lyrics you’ve listed).
The Taylor Swift one is again almost all innuendo that would fly over the head of a child. Does the radio not play the clean version of that? With “skies” instead of “thighs”? If the word thighs is removed from that line then the song is basically akin to an episode of bake off where Mel and Sue give a look to the camera when someone says the icing hasn’t gone stiff or something. It’s not “dirty” it’s more like a teen smirking at the word wood.

But it’s hard to get too worked up about it when I was singing Christina Aguilera “Dirty” when it came out, which was when I was 9.

I remember being in my mum's car when I'M HORNY. HORNY HORNY HORNY blasted on the radio.

I survived.

How we scoffed at Mary Whitehouse. She wasn’t wrong though was she?

I don’t like it but agree with others that we were exposed to it and just sang along without much understanding. My kids have a lot of questions about that song ‘sweet but a psycho’ (if that’s the title) which has actually led to interesting chat about what ‘psycho’ means, mental health and the ways women are negatively stereotypes! Which I was quite grateful of the opportunity coming up tbh.

Cardi B:

"Wetter than umbrellas and stickier than apple pie
I can lick it, I can ride it while you slippin' and slidin'
I can do all them little tricks and keep the dick up inside it
You can smack it, you can grip it, you can go down and kiss it
And every time he leave me 'lone, he always tell me he miss it"

I couldn't belive when I heard this on the radio with only a couple of words blanked out, it's very explicit

Maybe it wasn’t as blatant to us because we had inexperienced brains, I’m sure our parents would have disagreed though and knew exactly what they were singing about! 🥲

I miss the good old days, when Mousse T had two girls singing how they were Horny all night long.

Come on, it was really bad! 50 Cent's Candy Shop, Ja Rule's Always on Time? Eminem, most of LL Cool J's output? It was actually worse then imo as the songs were so disrespectful to women, which I wouldn't say the modern examples are.

Hot and Juicy, I believe they were known as 🤣

What about when Sir Mix-A-Lot declared his love for Big Butts?

East 17 Deep was quite raunchy if I remember

I don’t know, we always sang along to City High which of course is about drugs and prostitution, and Sex you up, Freak me and Dirty.

I agree.

50 cent - candy shop. I had no business singing that as a child!

Remember Relax by FGTH? How bad was that? The media frenzy caused it to sell over half a million copies. I think this is why a lot of artists have followed suit. The kids love bad language or sexualised lyrics and the coffers come flying in as a result.

I didn't understand the lyrics to Relax, I was only 14 in 1984 and in those days we were very naive and we didn't really have sexualused songs or if we did they flew right over my head 😂

I loved that era. Dolls in pushchairs, robotic dogs on leads, space hoppers, Girls World. I'd hate to be growing up in this world now. Its evil.

It's nothing new. In 90s kids sung along with the Spice Girls 2 become 1 which is fairly clear, in the 80s it was like a virgin or, just like a prayer. The Grease megamix has been school disco staple for decades with the chicks creaming in the pussy wagon.

LMAO that's tame compared to the song in my teens.

Look up my neck my back.

We thought we were the shit listening to that. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🙃🙃🙃

I agree with you. I wish there was a radio station that was child friendly. Not necessarily playing bob the builder etc just non sexualised music and adverts. It really annoys me!

No worse than Lil Kim though?

There were always very sexualised lyrics, you just didn't understand them when you were younger. We also may have lost some of the art of innuendo.

Grace Jones wasn't singing about NYC traffic jams in "Pull up to my bumper" - "Pull up to my bumper baby in your long black limousine, pull up to my bumper baby and slide it in between".

There have been explicit lyrics for decades but I think it was mainly from men in the past, and there’s been a shift currently with more women singing filthy lyrics.

Some people may think ‘good for them’ but I personally think that, as we’re living in a society where sexual abuse of women is rife, it’s sending a message to men that many women are ‘up for it’! I really don’t like it and when any man tells me he likes Wet Leg I just cringe.