Listening To Music Synthesis Essay

Teens are spending over one-third of their day using online videos and music. When adolescents spend that much of their time listening to music, it is bound to have an effect on them. Certain music lyrics have a negative influence in a teenager’s life. Music can affect teenagers ever-changing emotions, cause dangerous thoughts especially to those who are already alienated, and cause women to become de-sensitized to being treated poorly. Music can easily affect teenagers’ delicate emotions in a troublesome way. For instance, Christenson & Roberts describes how music can change how adolescents are feeling,”...teens use music to enhance or intensify their mood or to change mood directions,”(Source A). When teenagers are upset or angry, music containing explicit references may cause their emotions to become more extreme. This could lead to disagreements at home and or problems at school. When music such as rap or heavy metal includes negative messages there is likely to be a negative impact on the teens’ emotions. For those who are already struggling or who are alienated at school or home, music that promotes violence and drugs may increase a risk for suicide. To illustrate, Roberts & Christenson explains that “[t]he angry, depressive, violent lyrics of hard rock and heavy metal may be a risk factor for
Popular music of today also contains negative messages. In a graph of the number of violence acts in the music of today, the number of times that sexual violence against women mentioned was 32, compared to the 21 times in rap music (Source B). Furthermore, by the time girls are in 11th grade they listen to a half-hour more of music than boys each day (Source A). Girls are listening to more music than boys and the messages in the songs are talking badly about girls. This may cause more young women to think that it is acceptable to be treated and talked about