We used to have songs like 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover, where you had to pay attention and figure out that the message was that Paul Simon's friend had him sleep with her that night and break up with his girlfriend in the morning. If you're too young for that kind of message, you wouldn't catch it. It was an artistic way of saying it. Now we have songs that say, "I like your pants around your feet." Yeah. That's really artistic to say you want a girl to drop her pants.

Another example (Only one more because two examples is enough) is Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds. It's a song about an acid trip (Though the acronymn LSD was purely coincidence and John Lennon didn't even notice until someone pointed it out). You really can't tell if you're not listening. It's done in an artful manner. But now we have a song that says, "I do it for the drugs."

The songs about suicide have gone this route as well as most of the songs in general. The message is no longer an artful message, but rather the lyrics are literal. It takes a lot more talent to create an artful message and it's a lot easier to get it played on the radio because it doesn't have those "questionable lyrics," but the abolition of the FCC is a whole nother argument.