My Life

The Music Industry Today is looked at as common musician's such as Eminem, A$AP Rocky, Gucci Mane, Blink-182 and of those listed, they're just a few that come straight to mind when thinking about todays generations. They may currently be idles of todays times, but what about the past generations of musician's? Over the past few decades the music industry has taken a switch and become completely different. Today we look at the music industry as being corrupt, as has shifted to swearing, drugs, and wrong messages. The youth is going through the stage of thinking its cool and learning about themselves, but this didnt just happen within the twenty-first century, all these trending topics have been going on for years. The amount of controversy over swearing in songs like the sex pistols in the 70's or the violence that broke out in crowds were bands would spit on their audiences in the 70's, this is all nothing new. To many people we look at this Music World as nothing but glits, glamour, and good times, but if we truly knew what it entailed would we still want to be apart of it? The whole world seems to be building itself around drugs, sex, and violence more and more every coming day. Music is one of the most influential art forms of todays society and especially with todays youth, and to some the message of the music is what sticks to us. In the last few years drugs, especially heroin, have risen drastically. And with what messages bands and artists are sending out it seems to sugar coat the harsh truth and reality of what drugs and alcohol really can do to a person. Snoop Dog, Dr.Dre, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Sex Pistols, Sublime, are just some of the millions of bands that have admitted to being either arrested, overdosing, and admitted to the use and recovery of drugs. And together millions of records have been sold and distributed around the world promoting the scary, fatal addictions. Music plays a vital and extremely important role in the socialization of