History PrecisionFStrike / Music

** "Given Up" was another of their first songs to feature profanity.
---> I've given up, I'm sick of feeling\\

--->Take this all away, I'm suffocating\\

Take this all away, I'm suffocating

---> ''And I'm looking over people's shoulders And that's fucked up, I know that'' followed by ---> ''Scotty told me you're here And I keep having these thoughts Did we fuck it up or not?''

** His and Music/JanetJackson's "Scream", a very angry and confrontational song, features this in the second and third choruses. It's notable, because Jackson (Michael) usually shied away from profanity.

** ''...And Justice For All'', known as the band's "angry" album, is seething with hostility and rage at the hypocrisy of society throughout. In spite of this, the album contains only one ''lyrical'' F-bomb, in the final track, "Dyers Eve", a viciously personal [[CallingTheOldManOut calling out of parents]] ("I've outgrown that '''FUCKING''' lullaby!"). It is awesome.[[note]]The album booklet is a different story; Metallica's usual sophomoric sense of humor, rife with swear words left and right, is in full force on the liner notes.[[/npte]]

** A sticker in numerous releases of ''Master of Puppets'' warns that there'd be only one song on the whole album with major swearing: "Damage, Inc.", which has THREE Precision F Strikes. More specifically, "Slamming through, don't '''FUCK''' with razorback", and "'''FUCK''' it all and '''FUCKING''' no regrets". The latter line would be reused for the chorus of "St. Anger".

** ''...And Justice For All'' album, known as the band's "angry" album, is seething with hostility and rage at the more hypocritical elements of our society throughout. In spite of this, the album contains only one ''lyrical'' F-bomb, in the final track, "Dyers Eve", a viciously personal [[CallingTheOldManOut calling out of the parents]] ("I've outgrown that '''FUCKING''' lullaby!"). It is awesome. (The album booklet is a different story; Metallica's usual sophomoric sense of humor, rife with swear words left and right, is in full force on the album's liner notes).
** The sticker on ''Master of Puppets'' warns us that there'd be only one song on the whole album with major swearing: "Damage, Inc.", which has THREE Precision F Strikes.
*** More specifically, "Slamming through, don't '''FUCK''' with razorback", and "'''FUCK''' it all and '''FUCKING''' no regrets"
*** This second line is repeated in "St. Anger"
** James Hetfield also makes it a habit during live performances to switch more innocuous words with a Precision F Strike. You can hear it the live versions of "The Four Horsemen" ("Time, it's taken a '''SHIT''' on you, the lines that crack your face"), "Master of Puppets" ("Dedicated to... HOW I'M '''FUCKING''' YOU!"), "One" ("Tied to machines that make me be... CUT THIS '''SHIT''' OFF FROM ME!), and" Enter Sandman" ("I'll '''FUCK''' you in, warm within, keep you free from sin 'till the Sandman comes").
** "Hardwired" has one in the chorus, right before the AlbumTitleDrop: "We're so fucked! Shit out of luck! Hardwired to self-destruct!"

* Ella Eyre's "Comeback", an acerbic BreakupSong with 2 F-bombs in the chorus (the original version leads to 7 F-bombs overall; live it can border on ClusterFBomb given "let the motherfucker burn" is a great AudienceParticipation [[CallAndResponseSong request]]):

* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoAwsrkLWZE Ministry of Fools]]" by Music/{{Saxon}}, of which Wikipedia delicately says "possibly concerns the media and authority."

** ''...And Justice For All'' album, known as the band's "angry" album, is seething with hostility and rage at the more hypocritical elements of our society throughout. In spite of this, the album contains only one ''lyrical'' F-bomb, in the final track, "Dyers Eve", a viciously personal [[CallingTheOldManOut calling out of the parents]] ("I've outgrown that '''FUCKING''' lullaby!") It is awesome. (The album booklet is a different story; Metallica's usual sophomoric sense of humor, rife with swear words left and right, is in full force on the album's liner notes).

** ''...And Justice For All'' album, known as the band's "angry" album, is seething with hostility and rage at the more hypocritical elements of our society throughout. In spite of this, the album contains only one ''lyrical'' F-bomb, in the final track, "Dyers Eve." It is awesome. (The album booklet is a different story; Metallica's usual sophomoric sense of humor, rife with swear words left and right, is in full force on the album's liner notes).

* Music/LedZeppelin's ''Hots On for Nowhere'' contains the line "I've got friends who will give me fuck all", which is the only Led Zeppelin song to contain a swear word -- even though many of the band's songs are known for being very innuendo-laden.

* Music/TheRollingStones:

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

** ''Music/{{Animals}}'' is a ''very'' angry album, yet despite this, it only uses foul language once, that being on "Pigs (Three Different Ones)": "You fucked up old hag, haha, charade you are."

* Music/{{Nightwish}} does this in their song "Master Passion Greed". The swearing in other songs is limited to a "bastard" here and there. However, in "Master Passion Greed", it's "I fuck up everything but let me explain" in the second verse. However, Bassist/Vocalist Marco Hietala drops the f-bomb frequently during live performances (in both English and Finnish)

* Music/{{Genesis}}:

-->'''''Fuck the world''' and take your chances!''

** In general, the album in which "Scream" was featured in, ''Music/HistoryPastPresentAndFutureBookI'', has a lot of angry songs where Jackson would swear at least once. For instance, "This Time Around" has him say "shit" at one point.

But this time around I'm taking no ''shit''\\

** 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":
-->I asked my girlfriend if I'd seen him 'round before\\

** She also says "shit" in Paparazzi: "snap snap to that shit on the radio".

* Both Music/{{Slipknot}} and Music/{{Disturbed}} avoid using any cussing in their third albums, much unlike their previous work. The albums that came after that (''All Hope is Gone'' and ''Indestructible'' respectively) used the swearing that was there sparingly.

* [[Music/MichaelJackson Michael]] and Music/JanetJackson's "Scream", a very angry and confrontational song, features this in one of the last choruses. Notable because Music/MichaelJackson usually shied away from profanity.
-->Stop ''pressurin''' me,\\
Stop ''pressurin''' me,\\
>Stop ''fuckin''' with me,\\
Makes me wanna ''scream''
** To be specific, the ''[[Music/HistoryPastPresentAndFutureBookI [=HIStory=]]]'' album had a lot of angry songs where Mr. Jackson would swear. "This Time Around" said "shit".

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

** The song "Not Now John": "Fuck all that we gotta get on with these", and "Oi, where's the fucking bar, John".
** Also in their song "Pigs (Three Different Ones)": "You fucked up old hag, haha, charade you are."
** "Lost For Words" - "But they tell me to please go fuck myself".
** "Candy And A Currant Bun" - "Please, just fuck with me". Notable because it's the only example to come from the Music/SydBarrett-led lineup of the band, and because it was thrown in entirely as WriterRevolt: In the original demo of the song, the lyric was "please, just ''walk'' with me", but they slipped in some profanity when they were asked to re-record the song to eliminate drug references (it was originally titled "Let's Roll Another One").

* In live performances of the Music/{{Genesis}} song "Invisible Touch" (which normally doesn't contain any profanity), when Music/PhilCollins gets to the line "And though she will mess up your life", he tends to replace the word "mess" with an F-strike. Most notably, he did this at the Live Earth benefit concert, which (since it was being broadcast during pre-watershed hours) required Jonathan Ross, the presenter, to apologize for the swearing.

* 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 one of only two songs in their entire discography with any cursing, alongside the "shit on the ground, see in the dark" line in [[Music/FearOfMusic "Animals"]] (though David Byrne has unexpectedly dropped an occasional f-bomb in his solo material).