Young fans of Olivia Rodrigo, Eminem and other music stars have been shown specific lyrics on Spotify even when customers have blocked specific content material. The streaming service typically reveals a tune's unique lyrics, which might embrace racial slurs and swear words, on display screen when the clear 'radio friendly' version is played. Spotify declined to remark. The BBC understands the company is conscious of the problem and dealing to repair it. Spotify introduced a system designed to deal with specific content in 2018 after dad and mom put strain on the corporate, and explicit songs are marked with an 'E'. Anyone who desires to avoid hearing swearing can choose to dam explicit content of their settings, and clear variations will typically be provided as a substitute. However, the lyrics in Spotify's database for many of those edited variations could be the same because the originals, meaning anybody trying at the lyrics will see the express phrases. Currently greater than a 3rd of the songs in Spotify's UK high 50 chart contain explicit lyrics. Of those, half show the express lyrics on screen when the clear edit is performed. The BBC found a hundred extra excessive-profile affected tracks, including some that characteristic in children's movie soundtracks or on youngster-friendly playlists. Olivia Rodrigo - Bad Idea Right? Spotify appeared to remove lyrics for a small variety of songs on Wednesday after being alerted to the problem by the BBC. The BBC has additionally found that on desktops or laptops, people can still read the lyrics of explicit versions of songs even when the tracks are blocked, just by clicking on the track names from a search or artist profile page. Spotify is the world's most popular music streaming service with greater than 500 million customers. James Roach, who produces music underneath the name Midlo and has written for parenting web site Music Football Fatherhood, is the dad of two children, one in every of whom is just discovering music in his personal right. Kids do want to mimic these artists and sing the songs, however it's not at all times 100% clear what is being said generally. As a producer, Roach says people who upload songs have the option to submit completely different lyrics for various variations of songs, however suspects some persons are "lazy" and use the same lyrics for each the specific and clean edits. Spotify and another music streamers source lyrics from a firm known as Musixmatch, which describes itself as "the world's largest collection of track lyrics used by millions of individuals to get instantaneous time synced lyrics". Musixmatch allows fans to add, right or translate lyrics in alternate for "kudos". The corporate didn't reply to a request for remark. Unlike films and some Tv streaming companies, music does not have an age ranking system to focus on potentially inappropriate content.