Rap Music Influence On Society Analysis
Daniel Music and its Deception Year after year various artists release new music. With every new year comes more and more aggressive and provocative music than the previous year. In today’s culture and society we find youth rebelling, choosing a less successful route to pursue. In the blog “Music and the Influence on Society” by Kandi, she states that music doesn’t have a direct influence on today’s violence or teen behavior. Whether music is a direct or indirect factor, it is obvious that music is present in our everyday lives and it can influence us to some extent. But how much does it affect society? Specifically rap music, rap music’s influence on today’s society has a negative connation: it promotes negative behavior, violence
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“One in three popular songs contains explicit references to drug or alcohol use, according to a new report in The Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine” (Paker-Pope), which means they are receiving about thirty-five references to substance use a hour (Parker-Pope). Of course that doesn’t mean that everyone is listening to music with foul language and references to drug and alcohol, but it does limit the amount of music that one can listen to that doesn’t have a reference to substance abuse. With that many references, it is nearly impossible for Kandi, Author of “Music and the Influence on Society”, to say that music has no influence on today’s culture. When it is evident in statistics that violence has increased in the last couple of years, now is music directly correlate to this? Maybe not but it may have an indirect effect that society turns a blind eye too. The longer a steak is marinated in the mixture of spices and sauces the more flavor it receives from the mixture, it begins to take on the aroma of the spices and flavor. The point of the analogy is that our brain acts like a sponge. Whatever we ‘marinate’ the brain with is what it will begin to unravel. If teenagers expose themselves to vulgar rap music then it will become a part of their thoughts, they will begin to give off the aroma of rap
“One in three popular songs contains explicit references to drug or alcohol use, according to a new report in The Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine” (Paker-Pope), which means they are receiving about thirty-five references to substance use a hour (Parker-Pope). Of course that doesn’t mean that everyone is listening to music with foul language and references to drug and alcohol, but it does limit the amount of music that one can listen to that doesn’t have a reference to substance abuse. With that many references, it is nearly impossible for Kandi, Author of “Music and the Influence on Society”, to say that music has no influence on today’s culture. When it is evident in statistics that violence has increased in the last couple of years, now is music directly correlate to this? Maybe not but it may have an indirect effect that society turns a blind eye too. The longer a steak is marinated in the mixture of spices and sauces the more flavor it receives from the mixture, it begins to take on the aroma of the spices and flavor. The point of the analogy is that our brain acts like a sponge. Whatever we ‘marinate’ the brain with is what it will begin to unravel. If teenagers expose themselves to vulgar rap music then it will become a part of their thoughts, they will begin to give off the aroma of rap