As David Machin stated in 2010, "lyrics are not just about artists telling stories, but also about communicating discourses about their identities." (Machin D, 2010: 78) indeed, the lyrics of a song play an important role in connecting with people and providing them with reflexive identities. When people listen to music, the linguistic meaning gives the audience a better representation of the music and creates a more emotional connection between the singers and the audience. Furthermore, as different musical genres have different representational characteristics, the lyrics also differ from each other within the different genres, while the composition of the lyrics also changes with the development of the social movement, as Kaufmann explained, “the recording industry has been blamed for causing morally or socially unacceptable behavior, thereby placing it in an uncomfortable defensive position. (Kaufmann, WB, 1986: 225) Thus, the regulation of musical lyrics gradually becomes problematic for musical creation and the need for musical regulation or censorship seems to be increasingly important for the music industry. In fact, the history of music censorship has already emerged in the early days and has developed in recent years from self-regulation to government-regulated regulation. This essay will mainly discuss the historical root of censorship of lyrics from a young age, explain why censorship is necessary in this industry and finally analyze the problem of censorship in Cee Lo Green's song Forget You (also known as the name of Fuck You), released in 2010. Musical censorship of lyrics begins at a young age and is generally used to regulate the lyrics of rock music due to the rage characteristic of this musical genre. So ac...... middle of paper ...... the word. In this case, censorship has taken place in this song, and by changing the censored word or subtly indicating the word, the speech in the lyrics can still remain the original meaning, and in the meantime, the worry of bad influence on the children through radio or other types of media have been diminished. To conclude, lyric censorship is a necessary regulation to protect children from any mistakes, it has been applied to music production and has an important effect in this industry, however, a part of the public and artists still resist this regulation , because it may change the original meaning of the lyrics and the emotion that the artists wanted to express in the first place might not be complete in the end. So, more intelligence needs to be applied to creating the lyrics and making the lyrics work both legally and presentationally..