History PrecisionFStrike / Music

* Music/TalkingHeads' "Sax and Violins", which paraphrases Philip Larkin's poem "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Be_The_Verse This Be The Verse]]": "Mom and pop, they will fuck you up, for sure". Notably the only song in their entire discography with any cursing (though David Byrne has unexpectedly dropped an occasional f-bomb in his solo material).

** Lady Gaga usually makes her sexual references in songs at least slightly hidden. Her F-strikes are so well done that, for example, the F-bomb in "Poker Face" (in the line "P-p-p-p-poker face, p-p-fuck her face") was undetected for over a year (and Weird Al uses the {{Mondegreen}} version, "P-p-p-p-poker face, p-p-poker face" as censorship when covering it as part of his polka medley "Polka Face"). Also, for example, in "Monster":

* From the intro of the [[Music/{{Whitesnake}} David Coverdale]] fronted Music/DeepPurple song “Stormbringer”

* From the intro of the Creator/DavidCoverdale fronted Music/DeepPurple song “Stormbringer”

* {{Music/Coldplay}} has a reputation for being a family-friendly band. This made it a big surprise when their eighth album ''Everyday Life'' featured two songs with prominent f-bombs. In "Guns," the chorus includes the line "Everybody's gone fucking crazy, maybe I'm crazy too," and the bridge of "Arabesque" includes the line "Same fucking blood!" repeated several times. This earned the band its first-ever parental advisory.

** "Morphine" from the "[[Music/MichaelJacksonsGhosts Blood On the Dance Floor]]" album contains the words "shit" and "bitch".

* Music/BillieEilish: Her 2nd studio album ''Happier Than Ever (2021) has a dozen of swear words in some songs. The title track on the album Happier Than Ever had 3 uses of the f word uttered in a more emotional and intense tone

** Lady Gaga usually makes her sexual references in songs at least slightly hidden. Her f-strikes are so well done that, for example, the f-bomb in "Poker Face" (in the line "P-p-p-p-poker face, p-p-fuck her face") was undetected for over a year (and Weird Al uses the {{Mondegreen}} version, "P-p-p-p-poker face, p-p-poker face" as censorship when covering it as part of his polka medley "Polka Face"). Also, for example, in "Monster":

** From "Creator/JerrySpringer", courtesy of frequent collaborator Crestor/{{Tress MacNeille}}: "Woofie, you ''bitch''!"

* Music/TheWaterboys' song "Blues for Your Baby". Lead singer Mike Scott is quite religious and not one to swear much, giving extra power to this F-missile, propelled by increasingly intense music.

* Music/KateNash's cute, bubbly pop song, 'Doo-Wah-Doo', ends with this line:

** From "Jerry Springer", courtesy of frequent collaborator Tress [=MacNeille=]: "Woofie, you ''bitch''!"

** And, in a RealLife example, Townshend telling Abbie Hoffman to "fuck off my fucking stage" when the latter interrupted their set at UsefulNotes/{{Woodstock}} to bitch about John Sinclair's imprisonment for marijuana possession.

** To be specific, the ''[=HIStory=]'' album had a lot of angry songs where Mr. Jackson would swear. "This Time Around" said "shit".

** "Morphine" from the "Blood on the dancefloor" album contains the words "shit" and "bitch".

* New Zealand group Music/Six60 has a few instances of swearing particularly in their second self-titled album. On the song White Lines, it uttered as:

* Music/BillieEilish: Her 2nd studio album Happier Than Ever (2021) has a dozen of swear words in some songs. The title track on the album Happier Than Ever had 3 uses of the f word uttered in a more emotional and intense tone

** It starts off with '' You scared me to death but I'm wasting my breath Cause you only listen to your fucking friends '', followed by '' Cause that shit's embarrassing, you were my everything And all that you did was make me fucking sad'' and it ends with ''You ruined everything good Always said you were misunderstood Made all my moments your own Just fucking leave me alone''

* Perhaps the biggest surprise of 2021 was with Music/OliviaRodrigo. Her debut album SOUR has a barrage of swear words. In Traitor (I'm so sick of seventeen, where's my fucking teenage dream?), Driver's License has (But I still fucking love you babe), 1 step forward, 3 steps back has this (You got me fucked up in the head, boy), Deja Vu only has a milder word being used (Strawberry ice cream in Malibu Don't act like we didn't do that shit, too), Good 4 u has this (Well good for you, I guess you're getting everything you want You bought a new car and your career's really taking off It's like we never even happened, baby What the fuck is up with that?).In Happier (And do you tell her she's the most beautiful girl you've ever seen? An eternal love bullshit you know you'll never mean)

* Music/OliviaRodrigo's groundbreaking 2021 hit song "Drivers License" has this one
--> ''But I still fucking love you babe''
** However on her debut album Sour (2021) she unleashes a barrage of swear words. In Traitor (Where’s my fucking teenage dream?). 1 step forward, 3 steps back had this (You got me fucked up in the head, boy), Good 4 u had this (what the fuck is up with that?). Happier has this(An eternal love bullshit you know you'll never mean)

-->Shame on you for getting older every day
-->This place is not for you so why do you still stay?
-->You stand there with the other fuckers in the rain (...)

--->Here we go for the hundredth time, hand grenade pins in every line.
--->Throw 'em up and let something shine, going out of my ''fucking'' mind!

--->Talk a lot of ''shit'' and yet you don't know, fire on the way make us all say whoa,
--->The people up top and the people down low get down, and I'm running it like that,
--->The front of the attack is exactly where I'm at, somewhere between the kick and the hi-hat
--->The pen and the contact, the pitch and the contract, so get with the combat
--->I'm letting you know, there ain't ''shit'' you can say to make me back down, no.
* Music/FaithNoMore - In the song 'The Gentle Art of Making Enemies': "Happy birthday, FUCKER!" Also, later in the song: "Cause I'm the best FUCK that you ever had". In live performances, they usually add one to "Epic", changing "So you lay down on it and you do it some more" to "So you lay down on it and you ''fuck'' it some more". Supposedly this was how Music/MikePatton originally wrote the lyric, but someone talked him into changing it for the studio version.

-->Stop ''pressurin''' me,
-->Stop ''pressurin''' me,
-->Stop ''fuckin''' with me,
-->Makes me wanna ''scream''

--->Somebody's out
--->Somebody's out to get me
--->They really wanna fix me, hit me
--->But this time around I'm taking no ''shit''
--->Though you really wanna get me
--->You really wanna get me

-->I asked my girlfriend if I'd seen him 'round before
-->She mumbled something as we got down on the floor, baby
-->We might have '''fucked''', not really sure, don't quite recall
-->But something tells me that I've seen him, yeah

--> Why'd you have to get so hysterical?
--> Why'd you have to get so hysterical? (6x)
--> Why'd you have to get...'''so fuckin' useless?'''

--->We came in search of answers.
--->We left empty-handed again.
--->Shots fired into the sky are now returning.
--->Where the fuck will you hide?

--->The shout out from their pedestals
--->with words like courage and resolve
--->but what they meant was fuck em all
--->cause freedom isn't free

--->"I Reach 'neath your shirt, lay my hands across your belly
--->And feel another one kickin' inside
--->And I ain't gonna fuck it up this time"

--->"As I lift my groceries into my cart
--->I turn back for a moment and catch a smile
--->That blows this whole fucking place apart"

-->I push the door but the key don't fit.
-->'Can't take no more of this fucking shit.

--->I believe in this, and it's been tested by research
--->That he who fucks nuns will later join the church

--->"Listen up, now here’s the deal
--->I’m fuckin’ crazy and don’t appeal"

--->So crawl on my belly 'til the sun goes down, I'll never wear your broken crown
--->I took the road and I fucked it all away. Now, in this twilight how dare you speak of grace?

-->''Music/JohnLennon'' looked down on me and said
-->"FUCK OFF!"
-->[[ShootTheShaggyDog It sucked to be me. I hit the men's room.]]

-->Leavin' the valley
-->Fuckin' outta sight

---> I believe in rags to riches,
---> Your inheritance won't last
---> So take your Grey Poupon, my friend,
---> AND SHOVE IT UP YOUR ASS!

-->You could have called me up to wish me luck
-->You could have called me back you stupid fuck

--->It rolls across the western sky and back into the sea
--->and spends the day's last rays upon this '''fucked-up family''', so long old pal.

--->If there's a question about my intentions, I'll tell you
--->I'm not here to sell you
--->Or tell you to go to '''hell''' ([[[HeliumSpeech I'm not a brat like that]])

--->If you're not ready to go home
--->Can I get a "'''Hell''', no!"

----> '' What the fuck do I know? I'm alone Guess I couldn't be somebody's hero You want an apology not from me Had to leave you in your own misery So tell me, baby, am I wrong that I moved on and I And I don't even miss you? Thought that it'd be you until I die But I let go, what the fuck do I know? ''

-->Haitian children consumed by the millions for whom? For [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech YOU]]!
-->Millions of our boys sucked in by the game
-->Don't ask your task, IT'S A FUCKING '''SHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAME!'''

-->Cut through all their shit with my brazen wit
-->Molding puppets from their minds of clay

---> I still don't have a reason. And you don't have the time.
---> And it really makes me wonder if I ever gave a ''fuck'' about you.

---> All those fairy tales are full of shit
---> One more ''fucking'' love song, I'll be sick (Edited to "full of it" and "stupid love song" for radio.)

-->As the day stops dead,
-->At the place where we're lost,
-->I will drug you and fuck you,
-->On the permafrost...

---> Do what the fuck you want to
---> There’s no one to appease

---> We demolish too much
---> And (yeah) we've really fucked it up

--> I had my balls and my brains put into a vise
--> And twisted around for a whole fucking week.

--> How were you lead astray?
-->In ''Rolling Stone'', an eight page spread
-->Let's study all your methods
--> Fuck you, I'm the one who's dead
--> Fuck you
--> Fuck you
--> I'm the one who's dead

** And, in a RealLife example, Townshend telling Abbie Hoffman to "get off my fucking stage" when the latter interrupted their set at UsefulNotes/{{Woodstock}} to bitch about John Sinclair's imprisonment for marijuana possession.

--> Here we go for the hundredth time, handgrenade pins in every line.
--> Throw 'em up and let something shine, going out of my ''fucking'' mind!

--> Talk a lot of ''shit'' and yet you don't know, fire on the way make us all say whoa,
--> The people up top and the people down low get down, and I'm running it like that,
--> The front of the attack is exactly where I'm at, somewhere between the kick and the hi-hat
--> The pen and the contact, the pitch and the contract, so get with the combat
--> I'm letting you know, there ain't ''shit'' you can say to make me back down, no.

** "Hardwired" has one in the chorus, right before the AlbumTitleDrop: "We're so fucked! Shit out of luck! Hardwired to self destruct!"

* Music/{{Lorde}} broke out by mocking the consumerism of rap music, so she inverts that genre's intense cussing by only having occasional swears, such as "Tennis Court" ("How can I fuck with the fun again, when I'm known"), "Still Sane" ("All work and no play, Keeps me on the new shit, yeah"),"Sober" ("Jack and Jill get fucked up and possessive, When it get dark"), "Homemade Dynamite" ("Blowing shit up with homemade d-d-d-dynamite"), "Sober II (Melodrama)" ("And the fucking [[AlbumTitleDrop melodrama]]") and "Perfect Places" ("All the nights spent off our faces, trying to find these perfect places").
* Music/FlorenceAndTheMachine: Florence rarely swears, so it cames as a shock when her fourth album ''High as Hope'' (2018) had in the song Grace. It uttered as

* Music/PalomaFaith: Like both Music/FlorenceAndTheMachine and Music/EllieGoulding , Paloma Faith rarely swears in her records, until more recently with her fifth album "Infinite Things" (2020) (particularly in the song If Loving You Was Easy). It uttered the lines:
---> ''I'm self destructive, you wanna say fuck this and go''

--> ''Don't you know I ain't fucking with them good boys? Know you love me like ain't nobody here, boy If you want it, boy, you got it Ain't you ever seen a princess be a bad bitch?''

---> ''We don't get scared when the sirens come A little fucked up 'cause we think it's fun ''

* The song This Love by Music/CamilaCabello from her 2019 album Romance has this, despite for the fact this is Camila’s first use of the f word in her songs
---> '' So fuck this love, calling my name Get out of my veins If you need your space then just walk away You know how to fuck me up then make it okay I guess that's just your game And I'm the one who gets played Again and again and again and again ''

---> ''I know i'm fucked up, i'm a just a loser''

---> ''Know that we don't look like much But no one fucks it up like us''
Her fourth album Brightest Blue (2020), it was uttered only by collaborators (except the first song "Start" which she utters) which can be found in the last verse
---> ''You fuck with me I'll start a war Fighting against what I'm fighting for Another walk to the liquor store Trying to break me down a little more You fuck with me I'll start a war (You fuck with me I'll start a war) (I'm moving on from him) I'm moving on from him''
* Music/BebeRexha has this on her debut album Expectations (2018) despite for the fact she swears in her [=EPs=] and her earlier songs prior to Expectations being released. One of which was Shining Star which features this line:
---> ''But he fell in love with her fucked up ways''
* Music/TaylorSwift, in her sixth album that was supposed to show her "bad side", even had cussing in “I Did Something Bad”
---> ''If a man talks shit, then I owe him nothing''
** This happens in two of her albums in 2020 (Folklore and Evermore). Songs from Folklore includes The 1 with (I'm doing good, I'm on some new shit), Mad Women features the first ever f word used by Swift (Does she smile? Or does she mouth fuck you forever?), Betty with (Would you tell me to go fuck myself) and Peace with (I talk shit with my friends). On Evermore, Champagne Problems has (What a shame she's fucked in the head", they said), Goldrush with (I call you out on your contrarian shit), Tolerate It with (Lay the table with the fancy shit), Happiness with (Is just shit we're dividin' up) and Cowboy Like Me with (Plotted hard to fuck this up).

---> ''If we don't fuck this whole thing up, Guaranteed, I can blow your mind''

---> ''Heartbreak, Heartbreak is a Motherfucker''

---> ''But I still fucking love you babe''

-->We came in search of answers.
-->We left empty handed again.
-->Shots fired into the sky are now returning.
-->Where the fuck will you hide?

-->The shout out from their pedestals
-->with words like courage and resolve
-->but what they meant was fuck em all
-->cause freedom isn't free

-->"I Reach 'neath your shirt, lay my hands across your belly
-->And feel another one kickin' inside
-->And I ain't gonna fuck it up this time"

-->"As I lift my groceries into my cart
-->I turn back for a moment and catch a smile
-->That blows this whole fucking place apart"

-->Hey man, did you see that? Those poor cats are sure fucked up.

--->They hurt you at home and they hit you at school\\

-->...EVERY SINGLE WORD YOU SAID\\

-->"Fuck it all, I came from nothing!"

-->I tell the world to fuck itself
-->Cause who decides what's sick or healthy?

-->When you lot get out\\

-->I believe in this, and it's been tested by research
-->That he who fucks nuns will later join the church

-->Well, I'm a country boy from Nashville, Tennessee\\

--> "Listen up, now here’s the deal
--> I’m fuckin’ crazy and don’t appeal"

* While Music/AmandaPalmer likes to throw the word 'Fuck' around absolutely everywhere it can fit, ''Jeep Song'' in completely swear-free except for one, mind-blowingly powerful line;

-->'Cause I'm the son of a bitch that named you Sue!

-->99 years underneath that ground; I can't forget the day I shot that ''bad bitch'' down!

-->I look out the window but I can't see the sky\\

-->It was not your fault but mine, and it was your heart on the line, I really ''FUCKED'' it up this time, didn't I my dear?

-->So crawl on my belly 'til the sun goes down, I'll never wear your broken crown
-->I took the road and I fucked it all away. Now, in this twilight how dare you speak of grace?

* On Music/DevinTownsend's ''Deconstruction'', the singular f-bomb is dropped pretty early on in the first track "Praise the Lowered". "Smoke that FUCKING weed, boy!", the reason this is so effective is because Devin hasn't said "Fuck" on any of his records since the last ''Strapping Young Lad'' album, plus the obvious emphasis on that one line makes it even better.

** "Dirty Little Girl" and "Your Sister Can't Twist (But She Can Rock And Roll)" would be a better examples.

--> I believe in rags to riches,
--> Your inheritance won't last
--> So take your Grey Poupon, my friend,
--> AND SHOVE IT UP YOUR ASS!

** There's a f-bomb buried in the mix of Revolution 9.

* "Girl on the Billboard" by Del Reeves: "Sleepy headed painter said the girl wasn't real, better get the (bleep) on my way!" Averted, as the offending word, most likely "fuck," is replaced by an electric guitar riff.

** The song "Not Now John": "Fuck all that we gotta get on with these", and "Oi, where's the fucking bar John".

** He ad-libs the line "I'm a mother-fucking steamroller, baby" in some some live performances of Steamroller including the one used on the greatest hit compilations.

-->It rolls across the western sky and back into the sea
-->and spends the day's last rays upon this '''fucked-up family''', so long old pal.

-->If there's a question about my intentions, I'll tell you
-->I'm not here to sell you
-->Or tell you to go to '''hell''' ([[[HeliumSpeech I'm not a brat like that]])

-->If you're not ready to go home
-->Can I get a "'''Hell''', no!"

---> '' What the fuck do I know? I'm alone Guess I couldn't be somebody's hero You want an apology not from me Had to leave you in your own misery So tell me, baby, am I wrong that I moved on and I And I don't even miss you? Thought that it'd be you until I die But I let go, what the fuck do I know? ''

* Creator/{{Chamillionaire}} made an effort to clean up his language, including complete avoidance of the N word (according to him, he made the decision after he noticed that [[WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings a bunch of his white fans started singing/rapping along whenever the N word came up during his concerts]]) for his sophomore effort, ''Ultimate Victory'', but still got in a "hell yeah" in "Hip Hop Police"; Radio Disney applies GoshDangItToHeck when broadcasting the song.

-->If home is where the heart is, then we're all just fucked.

--> So FUCK YOU, YOU CAN GO CRY ME AN OCEAN, and leave me be

--> I still don't have a reason. And you don't have the time.
--> And it really makes me wonder if I ever gave a ''fuck'' about you.

--> All those fairy tales are full of shit
--> One more ''fucking'' love song, I'll be sick (Edited to "full of it" and "stupid love song" for radio.)

--> Do what the fuck you want to
--> There’s no one to appease

--> We demolish too much
--> And (yeah) we've really fucked it up

--> Seriously. It's NOT SUPPOSED TO BE EASY! THAT'S WHY IT FEELS SO ''F--KING'' GOOD!

--> North South East West
--> Kill the best and buy the rest
--> It's just spend a buck to make a buck
--> You don't really give a flying fuck
--> About the people in misery

--> If I had a rocket launcher,
--> Some son of a '''bitch''' would die!

-->But somewhere in your dark side
-->Everything's '''[[XtremeKoolLetterz fuct]]'''

-->Give me the boom box bottle, '''bitch'''
-->(Give me a secret)

-->And bloody-nosed bums on puke-stained pavements
-->Cough-up chyme, snot and liquid '''shit'''

* One that arguably improved the tone of a song; in Harry Chapin's "A Better Place To Be", the original lyric reads, "I wish I weren't so doggone fat..." For the Greatest Stories Live performance, and every other concerr performance after that, the lyric got changed to "I wish I weren't so goddamn fat..." Given that Chapin's songs had very little profanity, it stands out.

* Music/WithinTemptation songs generally contain no profanity. "And We Run" is a collab with Xzbit. In his [[AWildRapperAppears rap portion]] he uses the word "motherfucker".
* Music/TalkingHeads' "Sax and Violins", which paraphrases Philip Larkin's poem "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Be_The_Verse This Be The Verse]]": "Mom and pop, they will fuck you up, for sure". Notably the only song in their entire discography with any cursing (though David Byrne has unexpectedly dropped an occasional f bomb in his solo material).

-->"Loving you was like loving the dead... was like '''FUCKING''' the dead!"

-->"We don't care, [[PunctuatedForEmphasis WHAT! YOU! THINK!]] We don't give a '''FUCK!'''

-->"You bitch about the present and blame it on the past\\

--> ''Everywhere I look, you’re all I see\\

--> ''Time for givin' up the ghost\\

--> ''You can't do this like I do it,\\

--> ''I always thought that you'd be here But shit gets fucked up and people just disappear''

* In 1967, Creator/RichardBrautigan was among several poets and artists who attended a wild dinner party in San Francisco's Chinatown. Guest of honor was British poet Basil Bunting who was going to give a reading at the San Francisco Museum of Art. He got everyone to singing a rousing little ditty which they remembered later as "Troop Ships Are Leaving Bombay." Most people today are probably familiar with the straight-ahead patriotic version of this Music/GeorgeFormby classic -- whose proper title is "Fuck 'Em All." There is also a sarcastic Irish version talking about severe rationing.

** While not song-related,[[https://vimeo.com/5814547 this video]] ends with an [[ScareChord unexpecting, angry, foul-mouthed phone voice message from the former Austailian heartthrob himself]].

-->''"I've lost my '''fucking''' mind and there's no '''fucking''' time."''

** On ''Film/TopGear'', he also belted out a "C'mon you little fucker!" while doing a lap in the reasonably priced car.

However in her recent release Future Nostalgia (2020), it was uttered once in the second to last track "Good in Bed"

** As a way of GettingCrapPastTheRadar (since it ''was'' put out as a single) the lyric sheet claimed it was "the air pollution is a-''foggin''' up my eyes".

** This happens in two of her albums in 2020 (Folklore and Evermore). Songs from Folklore includes The 1 with (I'm doing good, I'm on some new shit), Mad Women features the first ever f word used by Swift (Does she smile?
Or does she mouth fuck you forever?), Betty with (Would you tell me to go fuck myself) and Peace with (I talk shit with my friends). On Evermore, Champagne Problems has (What a shame she's fucked in the head", they said), Goldrush with (I call you out on your contrarian shit), Tolerate It with (Lay the table with the fancy shit), Happiness with (Is just shit we're dividin' up) and Cowboy Like Me with (Plotted hard to fuck this up).

Or does she mouth "fuck you forever"?), Betty with (Would you tell me to go fuck myself) and Peace with (I talk shit with my friends). On Evermore, Champagne Problems has (What a shame she's fucked in the head", they said), Goldrush with (I call you out on your contrarian shit), Tolerate It with (Lay the table with the fancy shit), Happiness with (Is just shit we're dividin' up) and Cowboy Like Me with (Plotted hard to fuck this up).