Monday, October 19, 2009

Exposure to Degrading Versus Nondegrading Music Lyrics and Sexual Behavior Among Youth

First of all I would like to say, FML, I should of done this on Thursday. Anyways, we did had in interesting conversation in class in regards to music with explicit lyrics. We used some inductive reasoning, that helped us see a the point of view of parents better; censoring music is done for a reason other than just to regulate and flex power. Using the chat room in class, also helps people express themselves without feeling too much pressure. That’s mainly from the ability to slowly have an output of words at a pace determined by the person typing.
From the reading, I saw a good point that was brought up. That, perhaps people who are sexually active and whatnot are the ones who mainly listen to degrading music, thus deviating the correlation of those who listen to the music and are not active. Hopefully that made sense.
I would be saying that this generation is pushing it to the extremes and making it harder for the next generation to “rebel” against the standards of this one (unless it goes back to classical/ or country music), but even in the 50’s with artists like Little Richard, there were some pretty explicit lyrics going on. Although he didn’t get the songs published like that, there was still that mentality so not much has changed.
My personal opinion can be shaped by the last comment I hear, I don’t have a 100% firm side, but I will say that it depends on who hears the music. There was this little point made that people who breed within the group of younger, poorer people, are more bound to listen to this music and perhaps repeat the same thing, of breeding while poor, which probably is determined by genetics, and enlarging that pool of people. This sounds like eugenics but it makes sense in my personal opinion.

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