Sex sells?
I'm 110% certain the music people listen to influences the way an individual acts,thinks and feels.
I think that pop music has had a huge impact upon the teenagers of today whom are having sex younger,drinking earlier and involving themselves in things they definetly aren't ready or mature for.
In New Zealand's situation, we are very much influenced by American culture but we remain, in my view, a very diverse musical nation, yet we constantly hear on radio these songs that young kids are meant to be aspiring to and become influenced by.
This is just one example of the lyrics that young adolscents are digesting when at a party listening to "music"
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I'm pretty much disgusted at these lyrics and the fact that they are able to be freely played on radio.
If these lyrics and other songs are so freely digestable, we must ask questions of what other ways music such as this is affecting adolescents. It is in changing the mindsets of the young so that music like this doesn't populate our radiowaves.
It can be linked back to the music industry where artists are made to increasingly submit to the SS anecdote-"sex sells" this can be seen in the likes of Nelly Furtado whom used to lie in a patch of flowers care-free as ever and then now she sings a song about a "premiscious boy".... exemplifies why i don't listen to radio. ha!
Is it that young adolescents like to submit to youth culture and do what everyone else is doing? listening to that type of music to fit in? I think it's time a change was made.
Any extra thoughts on this?
ALSO LINK HERE:Does what you listen to, affect who you are?
I think that pop music has had a huge impact upon the teenagers of today whom are having sex younger,drinking earlier and involving themselves in things they definetly aren't ready or mature for.
In New Zealand's situation, we are very much influenced by American culture but we remain, in my view, a very diverse musical nation, yet we constantly hear on radio these songs that young kids are meant to be aspiring to and become influenced by.
This is just one example of the lyrics that young adolscents are digesting when at a party listening to "music"
CLICK HERE
I'm pretty much disgusted at these lyrics and the fact that they are able to be freely played on radio.
If these lyrics and other songs are so freely digestable, we must ask questions of what other ways music such as this is affecting adolescents. It is in changing the mindsets of the young so that music like this doesn't populate our radiowaves.
It can be linked back to the music industry where artists are made to increasingly submit to the SS anecdote-"sex sells" this can be seen in the likes of Nelly Furtado whom used to lie in a patch of flowers care-free as ever and then now she sings a song about a "premiscious boy".... exemplifies why i don't listen to radio. ha!
Is it that young adolescents like to submit to youth culture and do what everyone else is doing? listening to that type of music to fit in? I think it's time a change was made.
Any extra thoughts on this?
ALSO LINK HERE:Does what you listen to, affect who you are?
posted by Anonymous at 9:22 pm
5 Comments:
Why don't you listen to bfm instead.
In response to
Sarah: I full heartedly agree. Here's some more evidence to back this argument up even more-
Lyrics to Beep by The Pussycat Dolls:
[Will.I.Am]
It's funny how a man only thinks about the...
You got a real big heart, but I'm looking at your...
You got real big brains, but I'm looking at your...
Girl, there ain't no pain in me looking at your...
[PCD]
I don't give a...
Keep looking at my...
'Cause it don't mean a thang-(this is not a word) if you're looking at my...
I'm a do my thing while you're playing with your...
Ha, ha-ha, ha-ha, ha-ha
They aren't even complete sentences! But what really gets me is that teens still actually like this song...what the heck?
I think that when you're a teenager the sense of maturity is what's 'cool' and what others consider 'cool'-so it might be pretty hard to change this ideal. Thus we may not be able to beat this...Thoughts?
Hayden: lmao, it's great how you've just turn the main idea of this blog into a marketing strategy for you to promote bfm...and there's even a link-brilliant.
-Elaine
All this EMO music is turning boys gay! I could say that and allot of people would agree, just like people blaming pop music for girls dressing slutty or whatever they are doing (I honestly haven't seen it happening as bad as everyone is saying, its an exaggeration to me, just like my first sentence here).
But more seriously. It's too easy to scapegoat the media/music industry. I blame it on poor family morals. I know that's what you always hear Christians going on about (I'm not Christian, or anything else) but they are right.
I'm against censorship of music cause that's what this argument is leading to.
Mark: I think the issue was leaning towards the 'explicit lyrics' being at a peak at the moment as it seems most new pop songs have some sort of sexual theme. The problem was how to shift this theme and make artists focus on other non 'promiscuous' themes but then again I may have misunderstood what Sarah was getting at.
Karl: "All this EMO music is turning boys gay!" In response to this-I don't see anything wrong with gay people...I do however see a problem with young adolescent girls dressing in a manner that provokes men to look at them in a sexual way. This may be just my moral objection/view.
I also don't think this argument was leading to censorship of music, like I mentioned previously just a change in theme but how would this changing theme occur when the topic of sex is so widely spread now?-that I believe is the problem.
-Elaine
What do you think the meat of the issue is???
-Elaine
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