Arguments Against Censorship In Music

Censorship in music has been part of our society for decades. However, the reasons to censor the material that is exposed to the public are conflicting and so are the means as to how put in practice a censor to the material. There are arguments for the need of censored lyrics and there is some level of acceptance from artists that audience gets a warning of content before their exposure to it. There are also disagreements to a better way to create labels for the music industry, without them affecting sales in some instances, or the artist’s expression in others.
To let the artist enforce their freedom of speech by writing about whatever conflict arise in their environments themes like sex, drugs, or minority suppression is to protect that
This song raised special concerns about minors’ vulnerability to the impacts that the early and unguided exposure to themes regarding drugs, sex, violence etc. that artists portraits of being acceptable in their songs. “[Gore] concerns were largely based on her background as a psychologist who was aware of children's vulnerability to media influences” (Purdy 526).
This concerns went along with concerns from the opposing side about the possible violations against freedom of speech that censorship will allow, Christopher Hitchens summarizes,
“ It’s not just the right of the person who speaks to be heard, it is the right of everyone in the audience to listen and to hear, and every time you silence somebody you make yourself a prisoner of your own action because you deny yourself the right to hear
That given a serious situation like the association of Marilyn Manson music in correlation to suicides and murder acts coming from its audience it only opens a window to study the subjects of the audience environments and what the other factors move the audience to react in that way to a certain style of music.
Musicians’ dispute that the material an artist exposes is art, expressing that essentially is the audience who finds its own meaning to the art, so is not the artist objective institute a unique meaning within his art. Even though artist don’t seek to censor their ideas, most agree that parents also have the right to take steps on deciding the allowed content without it affecting their financial side or violating their speech in the