Better, appropriate -- According to whom, what and when? Our great-great-great-grandchildren get to decide how much 'better' we got before they themselves go under the same lens.

Hustlers (film) – It was a semi-autobiographical thing for singer Cardi B. She's quite proud of it. The critics call it 'empowering.'

If your goal is stitch-counting, museum piece history, your social mores are contemporary to your subject matter, not your audience. Post the boilerplate warnings and fire away.

If you're doing pirate opera, the producer will have a list of what's required/forbidden.

No reasonable performer would even think of doing songs the same way for a nursery rhyme; lounge act; ballroom and drunken carnival and that's just in one day. To whom and why are you singing?