So when will we be over all the F**K songs

[out of reach]

imo it's annoying and already getting old, if those songs continue to succeed, I bet most of the chart will be filled with kind of names.

[Wavey✨️]

When you get the F**K over it.

[passionformusic]

yeah, i know. its fucking annoying.

[out of reach]

lol, F**king perfect.

[Rurry]

F**k You was great. The rest are...not.

[Devil Marlena Nylund]

It's just a word. It's been in songs for years.

I wonder if anyone ever asked when we'll be over the "love" songs.

[Rurry]

^I think people are referring to the word in song titles, which wasn't really a common occurrence before recently.

I think it works for F**k You and even Pink's song but Enrique's song is tacky attention grabber.

[out of reach]

Jan 31, 2011 16:45:56 GMT -5 Rurry said:

^I think people are referring to the word in song titles, which wasn't really a common occurrence before recently.

I think it works for F**k You and even Pink's song but Enrique's song is tacky attention grabber.

Indeed that's what I was getting at. Because of the success I hope that top 40 won't be filled with this stuff. imo Ceelo's was an attention grabber as well.

[Rurry]

It was definitely an attention grabber, but the song itself was good enough to get past that. I would've liked the song just as much if it was originally Forget You. It's just a well-crafted song.

Enrique's isn't, though.

[Devil Marlena Nylund]

Of course it's an attention grabber but it'll get to a point where it won't be anymore. Anything novel grabs attention when it's first done.

[Devin]

f**k you

[Deleted]

Hopefully not for a long while!

[Fat Ass Kelly Price]

I don't see why it's a big deal to anyone at all.

[Mack]

Jan 31, 2011 21:29:05 GMT -5 Fat Ass Kelly Price said:

I don't see why it's a big deal to anyone at all.

[Au$tin]

F**k you! Those songs are f**kin' perfect. It's like tonight no one is fuckin' you.

[Deleted]

Jan 31, 2011 13:19:37 GMT -5 Wavey✨️ said:

When you get the F**K over it.

[David]

I highly doubt people are having an obsession with songs with "fuck" in them. It could just be that those songs happen to be good?

[David]

I also have to ask.. why does it matter if Top 40 is filled with "fuck"? I mean, the songs are all called by other names on radio "Tonight I'm Lovin You", "Forget You" and "Perfect". Is it just that its in the title that bugs you? Or does it bug you that the word is in the song too? Because I think complaining over a title is kind of petty. Especially since the word isn't even said on radio.

[out of reach]

I don't feel like it's petty. I think it's just attention grabbing junk that feels like cheapens music more than it already is. It just happens that the three current songs are decent songs and of course that the most important part but I find it to be lame if more "artists" jump on the bandwagon, but as someone said it's probably a novelty and will go away.

[Au$tin]

I bet you're one of those people who agrees with replacing "***I'M RACIST***" as "slave" in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

Edit:
I love the auto edit for the "n" word.

[Rurry]

Feb 1, 2011 12:24:17 GMT -5 Au$tin said:

I bet you're one of those people who agrees with replacing "***I'M RACIST***" as "slave" in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

That's a terrible comparison, lol.

I don't mind the word in song titles if it's used well like in F**k You and F**kin Perfect, but if people start making songs with titles like that just to be 'shocking' while not focusing on the quality of the song itself it'll get annoying (coughEnriquecough).

[Deleted]

Rurry Enrique has been nothing but a gimmick this era, so what do you expect. :kii:

P!nk and Cee-Lo got them quality f**ks in their game.

[LoveKiller]

Never, I'm sure it will only get worse. The music industry's standards are dropping rapidly. Pretty soon every song title will have at least one obscenity in it.

Not to get on my soapbox or anything but what bothers me most is people are going to call out artists like the Pussycat Dolls for dancing kind of sexual and having sexual undertones in their music but they never used obscenities in their music or made any references to alcohol, drugs, violence, etc. The fact that artists like Ke$ha, Enrique, or whoever get such little criticism for their BLATANT disrespectful, trashy, and negative lyrics really grinds my gears.

Rant over.

[Lockheart]

I don't usually like expletives on songs. I think the taste value is thrown right out the window. And I totally agree with NoWay

[ClevelandRox]

I think Enrique is the only one I prefer being dirty. I prefer the radio edits to Cee-Lo and Pink.

[Kishi KCM]

Tacky.

And the songs aren't that great.

[David]

I actually didn't see it as attention grabbing. I mean, P!nk & Cee-Lo aren't exactly "clean" artists anyways. So its not like the use of the F word is unusual for them. Enrique is a different story, but even then it doesn't bother me. I mean, IDK about Cee-Lo's full catalog, but it wouldn't make sense that P!nk's would have been just for attention when she's had several songs with profanity in the chorus. I mean, she could have easily changed the title of "Last to Know" to "Stupid F**k" and still would've made sense. Although, the same could be said for changing the title of "F**kin Perfect" to just "Perfect". At the end of the day, the f-word isn't all that attention grabbing anymore. So many people use it now. Especially teens. I think all of these songs would have performed the same way.

[Devil Marlena Nylund]

I actually think it's dumb that they kept the original title for the radio edit. I think that's tacky. It'd be different if they just blanked out the f-word for the radio edit but they replaced it completely with another "less than". Song titles have been changed before for radio edits (Let's Get It Started, for example), and of course, the Cee-Lo song was given an alternate title.
As much as I love both versions of Perfect by Pink, I feel like they're trying to get some sort of cheap shock value by changing it to F*@$ing Perfect.

[out of reach]

Of course the songs are attention grabbing. I know they are not clean artists but they and their management knew what they we're doing. I remember when Cee-Lo came out and how the video had millions of views. People we're like cool! a song named FU! it was actually a decent song but it would not have charted or sold well if it wasn't for that.

Same for Perfect, it's good, not that good. But people checked it out because of the title. Probably wouldn't have gotten much attention if it was called "simply perfect"

You can make most songs sound authentic with titles like that because they are part of our general vocabulary and it fits most pop/rock artists image. Here's another one:

Green Day - Awesome as F**K

[Fat Ass Kelly Price]

Sure, it may be attention grabbing. For me, I heard the titles of all those songs before I heard them. I wasn't compelled to go listen to the songs. I still haven't heard the Enrique one. I think you're digging too deep into this marketing ploy. Sure it is one, but I don't think it's been as successful as you think it's been.