Sentence examples for explicit songs from inspiring English sources
"We are updating our... scheme for the digital age to ensure that explicit songs and videos are clearly labelled".
Serge masterminded Charlotte's first album, "Charlotte for Ever" (also titled "Lemon Incest"), when she was a teen-ager; the intense, sometimes explicit songs were extremely controversial.
That might be the case with "It Wasn't Me," but there are more explicit songs like "No Fair," for which Shaggy recorded alternative versions for radio.
Aptly, his next release was the following year's Controversy, which contained more sexually explicit songs, a chant of the Lord's Prayer, and even an intervention in US foreign policy, with a plea to President Reagan called Ronnie, Talk To Russia.
In the wake of the review, the BPI (the trade association for the British record industry) extended its parental advisory scheme so explicit songs and videos would be labelled.
Later in the decade came even more explicit songs, from the Velvet Underground's "Jesus," the Byrds' cover of "Jesus Is Just Alright" and the Edwin Hawkins Singers' "Oh Happy Day" to Simon and Garfunkel's "Mrs. Robinson, James Taylorr's "Fire and Rain" and Norman Greenbaum's "Spirit in the Sky".
The album ends with "Go!," an explicit song about domestic abuse in a tearful, preaching, raging nine-minute live performance.
He wrote the explicit song when he was 16, he said, and had played it in bars before.
Of course there are misgivings about a Muppet, primarily a children's character, singing such an explicit song.
"I'm in It" is the most sexually explicit song on "Yeezus"; the beat builds slowly, starting as just a rattling bass tone paired with silence and a female gasp.
The young Fireworks Ensemble performs "A Field Manual" (2008), a sexually explicit song cycle that features the singers Courtenay Budd and Michael Kelly and the conductor Steven Mercurio; the august Orion String Quartet balances things out with the New York première of the much more classical String Quartet No. 2 (2011).
