Summary: Lyrics To Popular Music Harmful To Teens
Lyrics to Popular Music Harmful to Teens?
Many teens in this era listen to a variety of different music, for example: Hip-Hop, R&B, Heavy Rock, Dubstep, Pop, and Country. For many songs, artists tries their best to express their feelings through so the listeners to understand the feeling of the song. Many song lyrics can be interpreted into different meanings causes the listeners to either be against the artist or they are on the same page as the artist. In this case, most song lyrics could interfere teens and change their development in their lives when they listen to a genre called “Rap.” Many rap lyrics have highly inappropriate wordings that can lead to many issues for teens, especially gang related activities, sex life, and drug and alcohol usage.
In our generation, teens are beginning to join gangs because it seem “cool” and they believe that they can actually …show more content…
Many major rappers have some sort of relationship with alcohol advertisers (The Impact of Rap and Hip-Hop on American Youth). After watching these type of music videos, it gives teens attention and motivates them that it is safe to do these things. Most of the rappers take marijuana, xanax, meth, cocaine, molly and ecstasy. “Young, Wild, Free” and “High for This” would be great examples for this topic. In “Young, Wild, Free”, the verse “so what we get drunk? So what we smoke weed? We’re just having fun. We don’t care who sees. So what we go out? That’s how it’s supposed to be. Living young and wild and free” (Young, Wild, Free-Wiz Khalifa). In the music video, we can see that Wiz Khalifa and Snoop Dogg are promoting themselves and giving ideas to viewers that it is okay to do drugs and have some alcohol inserted into your body when you are young and still in high school. They’re also promoting teens to try and live like their lives, becoming famous and rich in order for them have the same lifestyle as
Many teens in this era listen to a variety of different music, for example: Hip-Hop, R&B, Heavy Rock, Dubstep, Pop, and Country. For many songs, artists tries their best to express their feelings through so the listeners to understand the feeling of the song. Many song lyrics can be interpreted into different meanings causes the listeners to either be against the artist or they are on the same page as the artist. In this case, most song lyrics could interfere teens and change their development in their lives when they listen to a genre called “Rap.” Many rap lyrics have highly inappropriate wordings that can lead to many issues for teens, especially gang related activities, sex life, and drug and alcohol usage.
In our generation, teens are beginning to join gangs because it seem “cool” and they believe that they can actually …show more content…
Many major rappers have some sort of relationship with alcohol advertisers (The Impact of Rap and Hip-Hop on American Youth). After watching these type of music videos, it gives teens attention and motivates them that it is safe to do these things. Most of the rappers take marijuana, xanax, meth, cocaine, molly and ecstasy. “Young, Wild, Free” and “High for This” would be great examples for this topic. In “Young, Wild, Free”, the verse “so what we get drunk? So what we smoke weed? We’re just having fun. We don’t care who sees. So what we go out? That’s how it’s supposed to be. Living young and wild and free” (Young, Wild, Free-Wiz Khalifa). In the music video, we can see that Wiz Khalifa and Snoop Dogg are promoting themselves and giving ideas to viewers that it is okay to do drugs and have some alcohol inserted into your body when you are young and still in high school. They’re also promoting teens to try and live like their lives, becoming famous and rich in order for them have the same lifestyle as