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.

FFS doesn't leave much to the imagination...glad my kids are all into metal. We don't listen to pop here.

Oh for the days when Relax was banned from mainstream broadcasting media. I do think we've gone too far in the opposite direction though

Twas ever thus;
When I think about you I touch myself....
Mousse T horny
Alannis Morrissette you oughta know (and plenty of others)
Semi charmed life
Freak me another level
Sweat (a la la la la long)
Baby got back
Thong song
I wanna sex you up
The bad touch
Barbie girl

The stuff we used to innocently sing along to in the nineties 😂

I was such a naive kid. When Bryan Ferry sang "I say coke, she says yes" on "Love is the Drug" i thought he was offering her a soft drink 😀

From early 2000s I remember that ‘my neck my back’ song 😅

Also when I was about 9 I had a dance mat with my PlayStation and some of the games that came with it, all aimed at kids my age, one of the songs you danced to had the lyrics ‘you and me baby ain’t nothing but mammals so let’s do it like they do on the discovery channel’ 😂 This was also 20+ years ago.

It's 'I say go, she say yes', ie go home together. So you were right in that he wasn't offering her a soft drink! 😆

Do people on this thread have any idea how easy it is to change the radio station? I'm constantly flicking to find something playing a song I like, can't bear all the nattering and ads

I was listening to Ebenezer Goode the other day and have done on and off over the last 30 years (it's still a banger), and it dawned on me that he's literally singing E's are good over and over again. I was about 10 when it came out and thought it was about some slightly mental bloke they'd made up. I hadn't really given it much thought in the intervening years and just sang along 😂

Between that and the outhere bros with don't stop wiggle wiggle, it's a wonder I somehow still managed to grow up to be a middle-aged accountant.

I looked up the lyrics to that Sabrina Carpenter song and I quite like the message- that it’s a turn-on when a man is competent, does the washing-up, assembles flat-pack furniture and is considerate and helpful. Not a terrible message for girls. I can get on board with this.

Almost every song on the radio has innuendos about fellatio. I don't use radio and we either chat or use a playlist

I listen to Classic FM or BBC Radio 3 when with the DC in the car or they have a play list set up so it's safe music.

@Tealpins Listen closer to CMAT's Take a Sexy Picture - it's actually about bodt shaming and the pressure young women are put under to look conventially sexy. It's a brilliant, furious song.

It’s very catchy though.😬

Darling Nikki by Prince. His 1984 purple rain album was where the 'parental advise: explicit lyrics' campaign began

The CMAT line couldn't be more obviously satirical. As @Ginmonkeyagain says it's a song that's critical of societal pressure to be "sexy". I would worry more that children aren't being raised to develop critical thinking and paying actual attention than that they heard the word "sexy" on the radio once.

That actually goes for a lot of the songs in this thread. Most of the posters angry about Sabrina Carpenter or Charli XCX have obviously only half-heard a couple of risque lines and had a fit of the vapours without bothering to find out anything else. Pure kneejerk reactionary shit.

Absolutely! Wish posters would use Google before they post.
CMAT is brilliant

It's such an amazing song, detailing the internalised misogyny and ageism we all suffer from and how pandering to the male gaze will never be enough or empower women. The pay off line is devastating, after listing how much younger she can look she pleads she can look like " whoever it is you're gonna love, so you'll be nice to me"

I can remember my mum telling me off when I was about eight when I was singing about “getting absolutely soaking wet”… much to my confusion when I was singing It’s Raining Men.

Re Taylor Swift’s Wood, I listened to it while reading the lyrics, slightly raised my eyebrow at “a hard rock is on its way” but otherwise did not pick up the innuendo as a mid 30s, not prudish woman. I doubt kids will be picking up on the innuendo of that one.

Really? You never heard The Bad Touch then? 🤣

Loved that song when I was a kid. When I heard it recently and actually knew what they meant though! 🫨😂

I like the idea that women can neither slut shame in their songs (which is largely just showing a negative attitude toward women who enjoy sex), nor can they have a sex positive attitude that implies that they like sex.

Songs have been about sex since probably the dawn of time. We’ve never had more options about the music we listen to given we can stream almost infinite songs and playlists for free.

If you don’t like what the radio plays for your kids, put kids bops on or an acceptable playlist you’ve curated. No one is forcing you to listen to a radio station you disapprove of, but I do take a huge objection to people trying to take that away from people who don’t mind it, as that’s all very nanny state. Vote with your ears!

Im old enough to remember the fuss ,when Donna Summer "I feel love" came out (pretty much having an orgasm on air!).As a teenager My parents thought it shocking, and it wasnt played at home.Not sure is eventually banned or not.Every generation thinks they invented sex!

Please someone think of the children… 🙄

With so many choices of listening devices in this day and age, one can take responsibility on what their kids listen to in their presence in most cases.

Those responsible for children can either put headphones on their children or play only kid-friendly music in their house and/or car. There are plenty of songs that were quite explicit when I was growing up as were when my parents were children. My parents listened to whatever they chose and I didn’t go out as a child to repeat such actions and often my friends and I found it funny.

Not fully on topic, but my dad paused when he saw me watching South Park as a kid when he heard the kids cursing and I pointed out that he and my mother curse all the time, the music they listened to, and the comedians we listened to (George Carlin, Richard Pryor) on car trips and he just nodded and went about his business.

You wouldn't have head that one on the radio driving to school though!

South Park is not a kids show!