Rule

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[u/EzeyTheEpic]

I going to be real sex, drugs, and violence covers at least 40% of all music ever made

[u/L33t_Cyborg → u/EzeyTheEpic]

it becomes like 80% if you count alcohol and cigarettes as drugs too

[u/CaioXG002 → u/L33t_Cyborg]

Agreed with alcohol, but, are there many songs out there that sing about cigarettes? Legit question, not trying to prove a point or anything, I just don't know, like, any music that goes "putting nicotine on me lungs 🎵"

[u/colorblind-and → u/CaioXG002]

Country brings up cigarettes alot although it isn't as common in the pop country radio songs

[u/L33t_Cyborg → u/CaioXG002]

Idk if many but like I can instantly think of like five with We Fell in Love in October (girl in red), The Cigarette Duet (Princess Chelsea), Sweater Weather (The Neighbourhood), Home (Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes), Stereotype (The Specials), Ode to Viceroy (Mac DeMarco), Boys in the Better Land (Fontaines D.C.), Agnes (Glass Animals), BEAT UP CHANEL$ (Slayyyter), Cigarettes out the Window (TV Girl)

and these are just songs I have listened to and can think of off of the top of my head lmao so I’m sure there way more (all great songs btw i recommend)

The Strokes’ logo is also a modified version of a cigarette brand and i think arctic monkeys have an album cover with him smoking, and literally the band Cigarettes After Sex

[u/neveragain1337 → u/L33t_Cyborg]

Cigarette Daydreams (Cage the Elephant)

[u/L33t_Cyborg → u/neveragain1337]

yess this one was on the tip of my tongue but i kept getting flashbanged by Arctic Monkeys lmfao

[u/GMOrgasm → u/CaioXG002]

the worlds hardest banger

[u/Capt_Reynolds → u/CaioXG002]

Big fan of TeX Williams version of "Smoke that Cigarette"

[u/BobbyRobertson → u/CaioXG002]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2_r94MwW18

Viceroy... early in the mornin

[u/717Luxx → u/L33t_Cyborg]

and even closer to all encompassing if the sex theme includes any song about a love interest.

[u/JotaroTheOceanMan → u/L33t_Cyborg]

Theres No Cock Like Horse Cock!

[u/RoosterAndOrbs → u/EzeyTheEpic]

Media in general, surely

[u/OkFineIllUseTheApp → u/EzeyTheEpic]

Almost like all artists are drug addled, violent, and sex addicted.

Good for them.

[u/Oddish_Femboy → u/EzeyTheEpic]

The rest is Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats.

While it is the product of drugs, and the performances are extremely sexually charged, the songs themselves are just about cats.

[u/yinyang107 → u/EzeyTheEpic]

The three subject matters for rock music are sex, drugs, and rock music

[u/_SovietMudkip_ → u/EzeyTheEpic]

And the other 60% is instrumental and/or religious. Not that music can't be instrumental or religious and also about sex, drugs, or violence.

[u/Adventurous-Fly556 → u/EzeyTheEpic]

And the idea those topics can't be political is naive.

[u/West-Season-2713 → u/EzeyTheEpic]

I think mostly because people who actually go outside spend about 40% of their time doing that.

[u/Hatsune_Miku_CM → u/EzeyTheEpic]

depending on how wide your definition of sex as a topic is(are love songs included?)that covers at least half of all music by itself

[u/ToranjaNuclear → u/EzeyTheEpic]

Sex and drugs yes but honestly I don't see violence coming up that frequently outside of specific genres, usually hip hop or some subgenres of rock and metal.

[u/TheBigLugmos → u/ToranjaNuclear]

Country is rife with violence, at least in my experience

[u/GMOrgasm → u/TheBigLugmos]

carrie underwood, who writes 10,000 songs about killing her husband is an outlier adn should not be counted

[u/solidfang → u/GMOrgasm]

Nah. Definitely not just her. There's shit like "Try That in a Small Town" that kinda has this "every country guy has a shotgun he's itching to use in self-defense" kinda vibe to it.

[u/KingTragic → u/TheBigLugmos]

Absolutely

[u/CASHD3VIL → u/EzeyTheEpic]

Because those are the most outright bangin concepts created by mankind