Swearing, do you think it's a part of art?

I disagree. Swearing is not apart of art. I find those words, we all know what they are, to be very offensive and rude. I think that if a song has swearing in it that it is not a very good song at all. I have a different experience with swear words. I used to catch the bus to and from high school and I have heard every swear word under the sun come from all ages of high school students. I have heard the 'f' word put into an ordinary sentence that did not need that word and I think that is terrible. And alot of the time it is kids who are as young as 14 who are saying these words. I look at those people and to me in my eyes, I find that it degardes them as a person. But if I were to link it to chiqiitita's discussion, it is songs like that that influence young kids to swear. They hear the words and assume that because the artist used the word in a song, that it must be an alright word to use. To me, words like the 'f' word and the 'c' word are not nice words and should not be used at all. To kids, those words are not bad words and they use them frequently, in every sentence. If I had a dollar for every time I heard a kid under 16 use a bad word, I would be a millionare by the end of the week.

To be honest I don't like rap at all. I don't consider it to be music in the strict sense of the word and certainly the lyrics are usually crass and profane. I couldn't really consider this to eb an art as such, but I know others will disagree

I really don't like rap music. My son likes to hear Hip-hop music and I find it very annoying. Bad words or swearing shouldn't be allowed in songs. I do believe songs are an art and we should be more considerate and respectful with the songs we play.

Frankly i do hear songs which contain bad words but if i am not mistaken all this kind of song (which contain bad words) have been label "parental advisory-explicit content" so that means it is up to the listener to choose, whether the edited version (swearing free) or the one contain swearing. In term of the artist, of cause it bad to swear around and plus talking bad about your own mom- the one who bring you into this word. It just the way they want to send the massage more clearly or should i say emotionally attached is via swearing in the lyrics. Even actually in real life people swearing in their daily life. The main point here is that, we have to judge by ourselves which one is good to take as example or just ignore the swearing and listen what actually the artist want to deliver in the song.