Profanity in J-pop?

[matt]

I think Ayu actually says 'Raise your hands'

Anyway... I was just thinking... whenever Japanese people who are learning English do a homestay or study abroad to Australia, America or whatever, they always ask to learn the 'bad' words, or we always offer to teach them. I could rattle off dozens in seconds. Individual words and phrases. However, when the situation is reversed and I ask my Japanese friends to teach me bad words, they're stumped as to what to teach me.

Swear words in English are in such common use, without always having a rude meaning. 'That's so f-ing cheap!' for example. We tend to use words like that as if they are toilet paper. Bad words in Japanese (and they tend to be more of a phrase than a single word) are used rarely and in extree cases.

Perhaps that is why.