Oh My Virgin Ears!

When you are born again, it changes you. It doesn't change you overnight because you are still rooted in this world. But over time, while you accept that cursing will be a part-and-parcel of popular music, you naturally pull away from it and would rather that it not be there.

And that is precisely the downfall of Western culture. It's hard to pull away from Taylor's music because it is inescapable if you are a general music fan. But I have broken away from all the dark gothic and alternative/metal music I used to listen to and replaced it mostly with worship music. The holy spirit will over time change you and take you away from those dark places.

Sorry to sound preachy in this post but you asked a valid reason why people still care about cursing in songs; and I just want you to know that there was a time I didn't care just like you, and I listened to all the punk and metal and nihilist music - but now I think it's important to regain some kind of moral code in the time we have left and fix the eyes on the unseen.

But I agree that the cursing adds a good percussive/rhythmic effect to Taylor's songs like The Bolter and Down Bad. I just wish she used other words that had just as effective an impact. It leaves me in two minds because as a musician and music fan, I can hear that it's very effective.

But as a born again Christian, it quietly repulses me.