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Good Clean Fun 2018

August 14, 2018 By Tim Casteel 2 Comments

What’s the first thing students encounter when they come to your event? The music that you’re playing. The problem – finding good music that’s not explicit.

So here’s a Good Clean Fun Spotify playlist.

Full of upbeat, fun songs that are clean and that appeal to an ethnically diverse college student audience.

It’s a mix of Christian rap, dance, popular music, indie rock, and a handful of songs in Spanish. I double checked lyrics for all of them (even the Spanish songs!) and there’s no sexual stuff, cussing (there are some songs labeled explicit, but I assure you they are clean; sometimes whole albums are labeled explicit while individual songs are fine), no taking the Lord’s name in vain (i.e. – “oh my g__d”; I’m looking at you Taylor Swift – Shake it Off), etc.

We use this playlist at our Cru (Fort Worth) Winter Conference, Cookouts, and Weekly Meetings.

Play them in order, just hit shuffle, or drag songs over to new playlists you are making.

Within Spotify, click “Follow” to add it to your sidebar of playlists.

Would love to hear if you have upbeat, clean songs that you like that didn’t make the list!

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  1. rynetyme says

    August 20, 2018 at 10:48 am

    Tim, I noticed two songs were explicit. Did they slip through or is this a mislabeling on Spotify’s part. I want to make sure before playing at an event.

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    • timcasteel says

      August 20, 2018 at 12:16 pm

      There are some songs labeled explicit, but I assure you they are clean! Sometimes whole albums get labeled explicit by Spotify while individual songs are fine.

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