Given this data, I think I can reasonably predict that lyrics of pop songs in about 20 or 30 years will mostly consist of cursing. Maybe even sooner given my personal impression of pop songs repeating their lines more often each decade.

I find Frank Zappa’s opposition to censorship pretty inspiring and hope this trend continues:

“The biggest threat to America today is not communism, it’s moving America toward a fascist theocracy, and everything that’s happened during the Regan administration is steering us right down that pipe. […] When you have a government that prefers a certain moral code derived from a certain religion and that moral code turns into legislation to suit one certain religious point of view, and if that code happens to be very very right wing, almost toward Attila the Hun.”

Please post the source next time. I spent 2 minutes looking for it: https://chrisdallariva.substack.com/p/when-the-fck-did-we-start-singing

What happened to make it peak in the mid 70s level off for a while and then spike in the mid 90s?

Wait… the 1950’s had music with the word fuck in it?

I remember the damn shit bitch blip of '75.

Eat bite fuck suck gobble nibble chew

How do I get a grant to do this kind of research