Only want explicit songs

[Username_here]

Some of the songs on my stations are the clean version. Is there a way to switch them to explicit? You can't listen to clean version of DMX. Some songs play the explicit version while others don't. There should be an option to choose which version you want.

[AdamPandora · Accepted solution]

@Username_here We try to buy unedited versions of all music and comedy we acquire, but sometimes a clean version is all that's available. This is particularly common with movie soundtracks and best-of collections.

Sometimes our licensing for certain content may expire. Other times we get the radio edit of a track before we get the original, and the tracks are indistinguishable from one another from a database perspective.

For that reason, Pandora might select a clean track from one of these sources instead of a nearly identical track from another album. This is an unfortunate reality of the record business: sometimes songs that are not identical are labeled as identical.

Finally, the lyrics preview will always display "clean" lyrics. If you'd like to view the full, uncensored text, click Show more or See all lyrics.

I hope this helps to explain.

[Mrenza]

Have there been any changes to this topic? Hopefully over the last several years, Pandora has found a way to default songs to the original, or explicit versions.