I was thinking earlier today about how profanity in music is useless, immature, and usually displays a lack of lyrical talent. This can be seen in the fact that albums with a lot of profanity are released in edited versions. In a work of art, when an element is changed the meaning is changed. This is most obvious in installation art. Installation art is meant to appeal to the entire sensory experience. It is set up in a location and can be walked through or around, touched, and observed from different angles. The location of the piece is important. For this reason, if the exposition is moved to a different location, the meaning of the piece is changed. The same is true to a certain extent in all other forms of art. Each element is there for a reason and adds to the meaning. If a stroke, note, or word is changed, the meaning is either strengthened or weakened.
This important aspect of art is evidence that profanity in music, for the most part, is worthless and unneeded. The artists themselves proclaim this to us when they allow their albums to be released in edited versions. If they do not mind patching in less vulgar words in place of the profanity, or letting the words to be bleeped out, they admit that the words meant nothing in the first place. Thus, profanity is useless and inartistic.
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