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Originally Posted by KyleSchmidt
(Post 789538)
Okay, so this has been bothering me for quite some time now.
To me, it seems like all the songs that you hear on the radio in today's world is talking about clubbing, sex, drugs, and everything along those lines. And quite frankly, I wanted to start a topic.
Lady Gaga, Lil Wayne, Brittany Spears, and the list goes on.
It's mostly rap and pop that has been effecting the minds the most.
So I wanted ya'lls opinion; do you think that these popular music artists are a bad influence?
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did the mainstream media turn
you into a hedonistic zombie?
do you really think you are the only young person with the mental fortitude to see through the crass commercialism of mainstream?
do you remember what the bulk of the music on the radio in the late 80s was about? i'll give you a hint, it was the exact same as your complaints only they replaced clubs with parties.
so... what's the real issue? are you really concerned about the well being of kids, or just peeved that the radio doesn't play what you consider 'good' anymore?
if anything i think the mainstream has LESS influence on young people today than it ever has. as soon as youths start really getting into music they turn to the net and as soon as they start topics like this one they're shown pretty quickly that their narrow view on the world and mainstream media don't really amount to anything to be concerned over. basically, mainstream music is the equivalent to fast food, and fast food is only a detriment to society to those who lack the ability to take control of themselves (ie: worthless).
just like that High Fidelity quote from ealier, although i remember it from a Frank Zappa interview, the VAST majority of pop songs have ALL been written about love, falling in and out of it, relationships, breakups, etc, etc. but still, all about love. has it turned us into a society of Cyrano de Bergeracs and Morrisseys?...
while it's normal to react against it when you noticed you've been played, it's really not that harsh of a 'trick' being perpetuated against the youth of our world.
@bandteacher - looking for stats about how and where the youth went wrong and lacked in the learning of 'right' and 'wrong'. i'd suggest taking a look at divorce rates. north american rates peaked in the late 70s around 50% (thanks 'free' love movement...) and they're still up around 40%, makes it seem appropriate that generations of kids who were abandoned by 1 parent and neglected by the other would turn to mainstream media for any sort of guidance.
and while it wasn't divorce rates per se, kids growing up in the 50s had to deal with the fact that a lot of their fathers didn't come back from the war, and again, one sense of abandonment and another sense of neglect while the living parent tries their best to afford the physical necessities for their family at the expense of their emotional health.
