Dennis Prager on the growing acceptability of swearing in music, including a Grammy-nominated song entitled “F— You”:
[T]he music industry, from producers to artists, is largely populated by people who regard social and cultural norms as stifling. Their professional lives are dedicated to lowering that which is elevated, destroying that which uplifts, and profaning that which is held sacred.
I don’t entirely agree with Catholic novelist Michael O’Brien who says that when it comes to popular media, you are what you eat, but this stuff — Prager provides the lyrics to several Grammy-nominated songs that have no moral or artistic merit — is pretty coarsening.
