Explicit Lyrics on Taylor Swift's New Album Have Moms Warning: It's 'Not For' Kids

A wave of concerned parents are warning families that Taylor Swift’s new album is filled with coarse language and adult themes and is not appropriate for the youngest “Swifties” who helped pack stadiums across the U.S. last year. That album, The Tortured Poets Department, is a double album with 31 songs and carries an “E” label for explicit content, with 11 specific songs having an “E” descriptor. Several songs include f-bombs. Zara Hanawalt, a mom and writer for Parents.com, noted that many children and teens became Swift fans during last year’s tour, which “shone the spotlight back on Swift’s earlier eras, like the Fearless and Speak Now albums, which feel much more kid-friendly.”

But in the new album, “[t]here are overt references to sex (like the line, ‘He said that if the sex was half as good as the conversation was soon they'd be pushing strollers’), and profanity. There's even a song where she repeats the line ‘F you, Aimee’ repeatedly (presumably, it's a diss track aimed at a certain reality TV icon, IYKYK),” she wrote. Hanawalt added, “It would be unfair to expect Swift to remain frozen in time, a teenager coming of age and singing about young love, forever. But as parents, it’s a complicated thing to watch celebrities our children idolize step into adulthood, and spread more adult messages.” Hanawalt encouraged parents to listen to the album before letting their children listen.