[All Platforms] Explicit Filter

[sekuether21]

Add a button that controls whether Explicit songs are played or not.  When it is off and you're listening to an album or playlist, the explicit songs are skipped. That way you can still listen to your favorite album or playlist when more impressionable members of the family (kids / parents) are around.

[johncats]

I don't really think kids CAN hear the extraordinary levels of sexism /filth/ racism/shock value expletives anywhere else unless you go looking for it, but where? - hey we are talking about INFANTS  here exploring music under family subscriptions

[jcoulstock]

This is really basic functionality for any streaming service and I genuinely can't understand why this wouldn't be implemented immediately.  It's the sole reason I would consider moving my streaming provider to the Apple service as without this filter it means I constantly have to keep track of what is playing when the kids are around.

[shinobisensei]

I'm sorry that you feel this way johncats, but you simply don't understand.
I was in my *first year* of *middle school* when I was exposed to all the
sexism/filth/racism/shock value/etc. that kids suddenly develop over the
transition between elementary and middle school. That was less than 10
years ago, I knew what they were saying *even though* I had never heard
anyone say it before. Believe me, they know what the explicitives mean...

[tonyp8on]

To whoever posted that since children will eventually be exposed to obscenities, it is better to let them listen to it and try to educate them about it...

I originally thought you were just trolling but it seems not. Your suggestion is in my opinion absurd. It is like suggesting that since it is almost inevitable children will encounter pornography that you should expose them to it and educate them about it. That is actually considered child abuse for which you would be placed on the **bleep** offenders' register. Sure educate children about pornography but that doesn't require them to involuntarily view it! Likewise, you can teach children and young people values like respect for women and fidelity in relationships and alert them to the fact that there are a lot of views expressed in the world that fall short of the standards you might wish to see upheld. That is one thing. Educating my children through subjecting them to the kind of egotistical, misogynistic, explicit filth, I stopped listening to on a Spotify workout playlist, is another matter entirely. What the poster seemed to be suggesting was that there was no such thing as bad music, just substandard parenting. Well no! I am never going to teach my children about relationships by just letting them discover pornography. I want them to steer clear of that garbage through their own volition. They might explore it out of curiosity but I hope they would have taken on board values which would cause them to reject it. Having my children subjected to music lyrics I personally am disgusted by on the grounds of free speech and avoiding censorship, is in direct conflict with what I deem my responsibilities as a parent. That is why, if Spotify want my continuing business, they ought to be taking the request for a parental control seriously and for the sake of caring parents, allow them to elect to protect their children from unsolicited intrusion of inappropriately sexually explicit and otherwise offensive material. Thanks, T.

[MzHyde]

How do we not have this yet?!

[shinobisensei]

Haha, I put that tag on...

[GCTJR]

Tell 'em Tonyp8on!!!!! I agree with you 100%  In fact, if there was a way to be more than 100% I would go there!!!! Spotify just get it done!!!!!

[johncats]

shinobisensei - it is difficult to know how to respond. If indeed you were exposed to the worst that spotify can offer while you were a child our sympathies are with you - but we cannot condone your advice that that makes it a good thing to expose OUR children because it happened to you - you sort of prove the point that it is NOT a good thing

[shinobisensei]

Maybe you didn't understand me. I think that we need this feature, so that
kids ARE NOT exposed to this sort of thing that happened to me, and many
people I knew/know. I only meant that it wouldn't help much, because kids
already are corrupt by their friends and the media, and they already know
the meaning of the explicitives.

[johncats]

Every long journey starts with a small step and the less **bleep** around the less chance there is of stepping in it. Sorry for the missunderstanding but I want to keep my kids free to be children until they make the choice - not Spotify