LataraSpeaksTruth+FollowEvery generation eventually has a problem with the music that comes after them. The complaints never change. Too sexual. Too explicit. Too much. Rap usually gets blamed, but this pattern existed long before hip hop. What changes is not the music. It is the listener. I know this because I see it happening to myself. I still listen to rap, but I am more selective now. There are songs I will not play anymore. Not because they should not exist, but because they do not fit where I am now. Sometimes I stop and think… wait a minute… I really used to listen to that? That is not moral judgment. That is aging. That is where the pot meets the kettle. Before parental advisory labels and warning stickers, there was the blues. And the blues was not innocent. Early blues music was adult music made for adult spaces. It was filled with coded language about sex, desire, cheating, bodies, power, and pleasure. The metaphors were not about modesty. They were about survival. Lucille Bogan recorded songs in the 1920s and 1930s that were openly sexual and unapologetic. Her lyrics described adult themes so clearly they would still make listeners uncomfortable today. Ma Rainey sang about sexual freedom and relationships society did not approve of, long before it was considered acceptable. These records played in juke joints and late night spaces where no one pretended the audience was innocent. This is not about defending every song in every era. It is about honesty. Taste changes. People grow. And history gets rewritten when we forget that we were young too. #PotMeetsKettle #MusicHistory #BluesHistory #RapConversation #GenerationalCycles #CulturalMemory100Share
