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Lyrics and Singers ===In today’s generation, cussing out loud has dramatically increased. Whether you’re on the streets, in the grocery store, at school, or on the internet, more people have felt that swearing out loud is ok, and that it’s a common thing to do. In particularly famous singers who make record breaking albums and singles. Artists like Rihanna and Drake who feel they need to say “f” this, “f” that in order to get the public’s attention to buy their albums and singles. Honestly, it’s just plain annoying to have songs filled with inappropriately, rude, and crude lyrics. You don’t need bad words to have a hit single, or at least you shouldn’t; some artists are clean and have popular songs, but for now we’re focusing on the majority of dirty ones. Unfortunately cussing has become so frequent in everyday language, artist feel the need to fill their lyrics with as many bad words as possible to please the public’s ears. Say part of the public was an innocent, sweet kid who is only nine years old, who just so happens to be on their mom or dad’s smartphone scrolling through iTunes, listening to a sample of a song labeled “Explicit”. It’s easy to access the music, but it’s easier to catch onto the lyrics, and say the kid learns some new colorful vocab from this one explicit song, then that kid isn’t so “sweet” and “innocent” anymore. The main point is that singers and artists have become too accustomed to throw swear words in, and it’s irritating. You don’t need every other word in your lyrics to be bad in order to have a hit single.===

===Now, it’s not just the inappropriate lyrics and the techno beat that’s irritating, but it’s the singers and artist themselves. Again, some artists are fine, but lately a majority of singers need to put on some more clothes, clean up their act, and make an attitude adjustment. For crying out loud Beyoncé, put on some more clothes when your singing in front of the nation at the Super Bowl half time. For female artists, the outfits are getting increasingly shorter, thinner, and more transparent. For males, it’s the skinny jeans, tattoos, and the side swayed snap back hats. Again, you shouldn’t need to dress inappropriately on and off stage to sing a song. Then you have artists like Justin Bieber who is in the middle of a nineteen-year-old melt down fighting with paparazzi, fainting back stage, and keeping fans waiting for two and a half hours at a concert. What about Chris Brown who physically assaulted Rihanna, conveniently skipped his court ordered community service for a concert out of the country, and got into a brawl with the famous artist Drake? Seriously, clean up your act, put on some clothes that fit you, and stop punishing others with your misbehavior.===