Indian Kids Can Access Explicit Audio on Spotify

Sexually explicit audio on Spotify India is easy for children to find—even via innocent searches like “bedtime stories” or “ASMR.” User reports show adult tracks appearing alongside legitimate results, often without explicit tags or age warnings.

One Reddit user found his 14-year-old brother saving explicit clips in playlists titled “Good pods,” “Follow for more,” and “Requests.” Reporting each item required repeated email verifications, codes, and bot checks—a process former Spotify employees have also described as slow and ineffective. Similar threads note explicit results showing up during ordinary song searches.

Safeguards in India are thin. There’s no Spotify Kids app, limited age checks, and no legal requirement to filter explicit audio. While Spotify offers parental controls—explicit-content filters, artist blocking, and a “not interested” option—they rely on correct tagging, and much explicit material isn’t labeled, leaving families unaware of what children can access.

The scale is significant: Spotify has 40M+ active users in India. Queries such as “storytelling,” “bedtime sounds,” or even “clapping” can surface adult content (sometimes buried), while suggestive searches return thousands of explicit tracks across languages—accessible to anyone with an email address.

Experts warn that cheap data, widespread smartphone use, and weak home controls magnify the risks. Child psychologist Indu Punj notes that children often explore such content out of curiosity, without the context to process it—leading to ripple effects at home and school.

Unlike markets such as the UK, where platforms face tighter age-verification rules for explicit media, India lacks comparable safeguards. Until tagging improves and reporting is streamlined, children and teens in India effectively browse the same unfiltered library a

s adults.