Forrest Frank Sets the Record Straight on Profanity in His Songs
The award-winning Christian singer whose songs have gone viral on TikTok recently tackled a common question faced by many artists who navigate both faith-based and mainstream music: Would he ever use profanity in a song? Forrest Frank won New Artist of the Year at last year's GMA Dove Awards and has enjoyed massive success on social media in recent days with a trending song -- Your Way's Better -- that sparked a TikTok dance. The song has been sampled in 175,000 TikTok videos, surpassing the totals of his other hits, including Up! (157,000). It's among TikTok's 50 most popular songs.
This week, he posted a video addressing the question: "Would you ever cuss in your music?" The video showed a series of smiling children at his concerts with a one-word answer: "No."
Not surprisingly, he chose Your Way's Better for the video's music background.
Accompanying the video was a Bible verse, Ephesians 4:29, "Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear."
It's been viewed more than 3 million times.
Frank has only grown in popularity since his Dove win, with 5.5 million combined followers across Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok. On Spotify, he's gained nearly a million more monthly listeners since that September victory and now has 6.7 million.
He won Billboard's Top New Christian Artist in 2023. His music, he told Crosswalk Headlines last fall, is "from my heart, and I love Jesus."
Long before his music reached Christian radio, he was making waves on social media.
"In the peace and quiet of my home, I just started writing these worship songs, and I felt like God was telling me to put one of them out," he said. "And so I did, and it just took off. The very first video that I filmed of it just went completely viral. And so I took another video of it, and that one went viral. …It wasn't like I was a genius or did anything. I just kind of took a swing, and God completely blessed it, and it was completely beyond me."
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Michael Foust has covered the intersection of faith and news for 20 years. His stories have appeared in Baptist Press, Christianity Today, The Christian Post, the Leaf-Chronicle, the Toronto Star and the Knoxville News-Sentinel.
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Originally published April 10, 2025.
