Fires burning out of control. Women being raped. No one around to stop the mayhem.

But where you ask: Bosnia, or somewhere in Africa perhaps? Try upstate New York, at

the Woodstock '99 music festival. The festival was supposed to be a 30-year anniversary

to the original Woodstock in 1969, one that represented peace, love, and rock and roll

music. However, the weeklong concert was totally the opposite instead. A tamer

glimpse of popular culture now: thrashing in the mosh pit in front of the stage, from

which security people would occasionally rescue a naked girl, her clothes ripped away by

enthusiasts as she incautiously body-surfed the pit. From the stage, Fred Durst, singer for

the aggressively rap-metal band Limp Bizkit, made it explicit: he instructed the audience

to "start some *censored*." Which some of the audience obediently did, scaling the sound tower

and ripping away the plywood boards protecting electronic equipment (Morrow). The

only aspect, which even somewhat reflected the original Woodstock, was the music, and

many people could make a case that not even the music was nearly the same. "The

music wasn't a message of peace and love. There were heavy m

at the school and that group was Marilyn Manson. The Anti-Christ superstar has been the

out and start shooting rampages and killing schoolmates, family and innocent others.

"normal" community that they see every day. One thing that might point out the effects

congressional hearings on whether some popular music recordings should have warning

Harris were not fans of his, but the fact that they were heavy metal fans makes one

daily the more they accept the devastating implications in the music as if it was their

average of 30 minutes (Eaton). Then, at the end of David's experiment, the Anthrax

vulnerable audience (Palumbo). The AAP (American Academy of Pediatrics) believes

5) Manson, Marilyn. "Columbine: Whose Fault is It?" Rolling Stone 28 May 1999.

for teen violence and suicide (Arnett). Numbing and influential, teen violence and

many parents across the country today. Just as in the 72 laboratory mice that ran through

Lyrics such as these are probably what teach teens to go out and kill, beat, or rape

in and around school. Heavy metal can lead to violence and suicide in teens from

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