Is it possible to sell music without speaking about love, sex, drugs and alcohol?

Question

could you make a list about songs within this category of lyrics? 

Answer 1

I think so, BTS make song without any of the aforementioned content. 

Answer 2

music isnt words

And if you want to be interesting, STAY AWAY from the usual!

Answer 3

Tenacious D! They sang a song about nothing, well it was a tribute really but to a song by a band that to this day no one knows who it was.

Just that the song they were singing as a tribute sounded nothing like the song it was dedicated to!

Even Dave grohl got on bored for that song because he knew it was genius! 

Answer 4

I'm guessing you mean songs outside of those genres?

Here's some pop songs that aren't about those things:

Lonely - Justin Bieber

Be As You Are - Mike Posner

Sick Boy - The Chainsmokers

Panic Room - Au/RA

Hall of Fame - The Script

Radioactive - Imagine Dragons

Immortals - Fall Out Boy

Working for the Weekend - MAX

Love Song - Sara Baralleis

100 years - Five For Fighting

Paradise - Coldplay

Counting Stars - One Republic

Don't Forget Where You Belong - One Direction

and so many more

Answer 5

Yes, though you may to have to look outside the "pop" genre for some; a lot more heavy rock than pop type tracks tell stories rather than being love songs or whatever.

A few classic examples that come to mind, trying to stick mainly to pop:

Green Day - boulevard of broken dreams

Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing

Dire Straits - Money For Nothing

Dire Straits - Telegraph Road

Deep Purple - Smoke On The Water.

Free - Wishing Well

Al Stewart - Time Passages

Duran Duran - The Reflex

Eric Clapton - I Shot The Sheriff

Men At Work - Overkill

Seal - Crazy

New Order - True Faith

Stranglers - Golden Brown

Bad Company - Rock n Roll Fantasy

Bad Company - Bad Company

ZZ Top / Elvis Presley - Viva Las Vegas

Plus of course every instrumental track that's ever sold - The Shadows, Booker T, Darude, Candy Dulfer, Harold Faltermeyer and many others, plus lots of individual tracks; Albatross, Telstar, Frankenstein..

And countless other tracks from such as Deep Purple, Rainbow, Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, AC/DC and other heavy rock / metal bands.

Answer 6

That seems to be the big thing here friend sex drugs rock and roll you take away these three things and you don't have much of music left!

Answer 7

Yes, it is possible to sell music without speaking of any of those things.

I'm a little confused about what you're asking. Do you want topics other than those for songs or specific songs with topics other than those?

An example of a topic would be friendship. Song examples include Bros by Wolf Alice, Bad Blood by Bastille, Guys by The 1975, Fake Friends by Joan Jett, Army by Ellie Goulding, and Becky by Be Your Own Pet.

Answer 8

I like how you lump "love" in with "sex, drugs, and alcohol." LMAO-- "One of these things is not like the others. Can you guess which one?"