"did lewdly and lasciviously expose his penis and shake it. . ." (Rosen et al.

90). Today, Billy Joe Armstrong, lead singer of Green Day, bares all at his

concert in Philadelphia (Bernstein 95). The eccentric Courtney Love will rip

off her bra for the audience to marvel and glorify at her action (Bernstein 95).

She acts in such a fashion because she is insane and wants to prove it to the

world, where as Billy Joe just performs naked for the shock value and the love

of hearing tabloids and gossip. Both performers of past and present conducted

strange acts on stage for the shock value and attention, but with performers of

old, it reflected their life and what they were really like. Today's performers,

however, do not act like that in real life, for the most part. Today,

performers take on challenges, like the dare of a child. . . "Betcha won't do

it!" These rock performers cannot turn down a dare or back away from even the

slightest bit of public notoriety. By listening to one of their

"questionable" albums, it is easily noticeable how they thrive off of it. All

of these performers do have one thing in common, at one time or another,

people seem to think. The problem of urban violence is much bigger than rap,

or heard an example of these "hidden backwards messages" in all of his twenty-

allow their children to attend a concert with actions such as Courtney Love's.

the content of his lyrics, the critics labeled him "bad.") About four years ago,

music that they personally found offensive. Also, radio stations cannot please

Stanley Gortikov, president of the Recording Industry Association of America

messages or backward masking" for a few reasons (Zucchino 3). First of all, the

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