%^*# Lyrics

Remember when Second Lady Tipper Gore had that crusade against obscene music lyrics back in the 90’s? Well, I think she lost that battle. People have pretty much forgotten about Tipper. My friends named their dog Tipper, but that dog’s been gone for years. Too bad she didn’t crusade for higher waitress tips. People would remember something like that. When they got up to leave the restaurant, say, IHOP, one of them would say, “Remember the Tipper.”

So, for the record (no pun intended!), yes, I am totally against obscene lyrics in music. We’ve made it through centuries of music without obscene lyrics. Take opera for example. There’s no cussing in opera, is there? If there was, it would be awful, ‘cause they repeat their words a lot. And they print the words in the program sometimes. Imagine going to a hip-hop concert and having the words printed in a program. Yikes!

The only possible exception for obscene lyrics would be if you really needed the word to complete a rhyme and there was no other word available that rhymed. Rhyming is important.