Hello. This is my first post as a member. I've posted as a guest, and I've read the message boards many, many times before.
Cussing. Cussing is an art. There is nothing wrong with cussing in songs, and there is nothing wrong with cussing in everyday life, in my opinion. The problem is when songwriters overuse cuss words; you shouldn't use ANY word (other than maybe "the" or "and") 15 times in one song, so why would you use the f-word that many times? The writer should be certain that the word they choose, whether it's a swear or not, is the one that best expresses what they want to. Since GL doesn't swear much in his songs, it gives him a lot of credibility when he does swear, like on the Sundown album.
My favorite cussing singer/songwriter is Jimmy Buffett; it fits well with his seafaring, Gulf Coast attitude: "Good times and riches and son-of-a-bitches, I've seen more than I can recall."
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