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2 points. as other people have pointed on ywn, i hear lsheim rav moshe wolfson that the rebbes and the older tzadikkim had the ability to make a niggun kadosh even when its source was tamei. nowadays we do not have these kochos. the second thing is that music is a reflection of its times and of the hashkafos of the people behind it. music thats coming from a society of being vild and hefker is obviously going to have a negative hashpa on a person, even if a frum guy put non-offensive words to it. and also the music back then was nowhere near as disgusting as it is today. people had a certain standard, today anything flies and the music in general is repulsive. and remember that music has a tremendous koach, some were able to get nevua through music and rashi even says about acher that he went off because of zemer yevani. do you really want to listen to music that’s rooted in such filth? a guy takes a song talking about unspeakable things and puts some jewish words to it and that all of a sudden makes it jewish music?