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Also, how about giving me the ability to not hear songs with certain words in them. I'm not a tea totaller or holier than thou Nancy, but I really don't want to hear any more songs from the hood rapping about their gangsta money hoes and all the other things that are basically domestic violence, gun violence, racism, gang mentality and "I'm so tough" stories all in one.

Spotify keeps recommending them even though I skip nearly every one of them nearly every time. I'm on premium and this annoys me to no end.

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You would love Cigarettes from the Fort Minor album The Rising Tied then.

It talks about exactly what you are saying - why do all raps have to be about guns, violence, drugs and domestic violence etc.

I'll check it out. Thanks!

You can disable songs with explicit lyrics in your settings, if that isn't too wide a net.

Hmm. I'd imagine you'd end up blocking a lot of good songs that simply have the word "fuck" in them, in a non-aggressive, non-sexual way, and may still have to endure lyrics that sound like a 13 year old bragging about how cool he is (yeah, that's mostly rap but not exclusively)

This is a bit of a wide net I'm afraid. That said, someone else pointed out that I might be able to hide artists. That could be a partial surrogate for blocking a theme / specific content.

Surely, that has more to do with common themes in the music you frequent than spotify pushing these themes on you. If you don't like the themes that frequent the genre you are listening to most often, the solution seems to be to find alternative genres. I don't tend to get these themes often when listening to electro-swing, for example.

And like the other reply said, you can disable explicit lyrics and I'm pretty sure you can hide artists.

I suspect its possibly to do with my families preferred listening - two teenagers. We are on a shared family plan - so theoretically each have our own accounts. There seems to be some bleed across.

I'll need to check in to whether I can block specific artists.

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