Music Lyrics Linked To Crime
Music lyrics have undergone dramatic changes since the introduction of rock music more than 40 years ago. This is of vital interest and concern for parents .During the past four decades; music lyrics have become increasingly explicit, particularly with reference to sex, drugs, crime and violence.Recently, heavy metal and "gangsta rap" music lyrics have elicited the greatest concern. Such lyrics are of special concern in today's environment, which poses unprecedented threats to the health and well-being of adolescents. Pregnancy, drug use, STD's, injuries, homicide and suicide have all become part of everyday life for many teens. We don't even blink when prominent corporate citizens sell music to our children that celebrate violence, including the murder of police, gang rape and sexual perversity, including pedophilia. (Senator J.Lieberman) These cultural indicators have very real implications. We are left with an unmoral hole in our society, in which our children learn that anything goes, and is the heart of our society's worst problems. These trendsetters exert an extremely powerful
hold on our culture and our children particular, and they often exhibit little sense of responsibility for the harmful values they are portraying. (Committee on Communications) These songs and others like contain some of the most disgusting thoughts I've ever heard, but they are more than just offensive. When combined with all the murder and mayhem depicted by the media they are helping to create a culture of violence that is increasingly enveloping our children, desensitizing them to consequences and ultimately cheapening the value of human life. Also, Debbie Pelley,a 7th grade teacher at Westside Middle School in Jonesboro ,Arkansas, told the Senate Commerce Committee yesterday that violent rap music played a big part in the ambush at her school earlier that year that left four students and one teacher dead. One of Pelleys students was Mitchell Johnson,13, the older of two Westside students accused of luring teachers and classmates out of the school with a false fire alarm, then shooting them down from nearby woods on March 24.Pelley, who escaped injury when a bullet lodged in her purs
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