In this modernised era, music has become a part of our daily lives. No matter what circumstances we are facing, music is the cure to everything. Hence, listening to songs that are tagged as explicit is nothing new to us anymore. The word “explicit” can be typically discovered in various music streaming platforms to alert the public before listening to it.
Music with explicit content can be generally found in the western pop music culture. In addition, the explicit logo is used where one or more of the conditions are used in the lyrics or material of a song that may be deemed objectionable or unsuitable for children. The conditions are the usage of vulgar words, references to brutality, psychological or physical abuse, sexual practices reference and biased language.
Songs with explicit content are nightmares for parents as most songs do not require any age requirements for accessing. These contents in the music and video streaming platforms such as YouTube and Spotify are easily accessible which often lead adolescents and teenagers to have the ability gaining access to these contents without the supervision of parents.
However, music with explicit contents are not entirely bad. Some artists would include explicit contents in their acts to share their inner feelings and thoughts. Some would also share their bad experiences and frustrations towards something negative. Not only that but many more reasons could be the main factor of artists preferring explicit instead of implicit.
Explicit contents are not generally accepted in all places such as Belarus and India. They are not taking in explicit contents to be sold. Furthermore, iTunes, a music streaming platform that is created by Apple may hide sales from the store if the content is tagged as “explicit”. As long as one song is labelled explicit on the record, in most shops later on, the whole release will be labelled "explicit". Therefore, artists who include explicit contents in their acts may face several crises later on upon releasing. For example, not being approved to release, low album sales and more.
The following artists below are the examples of pop singers who got extremely popular for their explicit acts:
Ariana Grande
The cover of “God Is A Woman” album (Source: Fandom)
Ariana Grande is an American actress and pop singer artist who is well known for her impressive live vocal skills that are normally shown during awards and variety shows. Holding songs with explicit tags did not stop her way from gaining popularity but also made herself one of the most successful pop singer artists in the industry. Most of her explicit acts such as “Hands on Me” (2018), “7 Rings” (2019) and “Thank U, Next” (2019) rose to fame and topped the charts the moment it was released to the public. Not to mention her achievements she made throughout her career ever since her debut has garnered attention from the public. Up until today, Ariana Grande won herself a total of 132 awards out of 413 nominations from grand music awards shows such as The Grammy, Billboard and MTV. Besides that, most of her songs landed on the first spot of music streaming sites upon release. Even her collaboration song along with Nicki Minaj “Side To Side” (2016) garnered 1.8 billion views which ultimately allowed her to achieve another milestone in the industry.
Nicki Minaj
The album cover of her 4th studio album “Queen” (Source: Amazon)
Nicki Minaj, just by looking at her album cover would not take us to surprise. Ever since launching her first few mixtapes, the Trinidadian-American rapper, musician, songwriter, actress, and model soon received public acknowledgement. Her collaboration act, “Say So” (2020) earned Minaj's first high ranking on the Billboard chart. The following music artist then released multitudinous songs that are associated with explicit content. For instance, “Pound The Alarm” (2012), “Starships” (2012), “Anaconda” (2014) and many more. Not to mention some of her music videos scenes were also classified as explicit due to the presence of sexual movements such as dancing sexually and twerking. These songs also achieved great results in terms of charts and album sales. Her fast and explosive rapping skills that left the public in awe is also one of her unique charms that brought her who she is today.
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