Times are changing and we are becoming desensitized to a lot of things. I am old enough to remember students coming to school with guns in the gun racks of their vehicles. It is unthinkable now to see a student bring a gun to school. There is more blood and violence now than then in movies and music. Not much left to the imagination these days. Even with the freedom to use choice words some of us aren't a liberty to use all of the words. Like the "N" word.
In 2014 a song made it to position "19" on the billboard 100.
It had the "N" word in it 128 times and the "F" bomb in it around 12 times. With certain genres and artist it is accepted but with others it could start a political fire storm.
George Strait never used the word in any of his songs. He has had 61 number ones on the country charts and 86 songs in the billboard charts. The cool thing about George is..most of those songs were written by people like us....songwriters...
I am worried that technology and changing times will make it harder and harder for songwriters who write for other people and make a living at it.
It seems that changes must be made to keep up and actually profit from composing and writing and making a living at it. But Thanks to artist like George Strait, many writers have made a living at it.

Peace..out,
C. Dan