i think i'm more offended by poorly played and recorded songs then lyrical content ...that said, i rarely listen to what is being sung.
I recently mastered some European grime and the only words I understood was "p*ss and sh*t"I do not think this was the core subject, lol.
Had a group in for mastering. I don't want to give their name but they are a punk group. The lead singer spend 34 minutes of a 43 minute CD talking about putting things into and taking things out of his butt (he used other words). When they left I had to take a shower I really felt very dirty.FWIW
I'd like to know what he talked about for the other 9 minutes.
maybe he was a proctologist, you have to write about what you knowand thats why most of my lyrics are about beer
And .. on-tangent, about 15 years ago, I got a gig doing some restoration on cockpit voice recordings from a plane that crashed, killing all aboard. At the onset, I thought "wow, forensic audio! Interesting potential as a new revenue stream". All I knew was I had to sign affidavits, and didn't even know what the material was going to be ... Not long into the project, I felt certain that working on almost an kind of music with even the worst fictional lyrics would be preferable to hearing the 'truth' of people and death in work of that type.
You know, like people who drink beer mouth-first.