Do you think rap and pop are a bad influence?

Do you really want some kid somewhere in the world who has nothing better to do than to think that that is approiate?? I see it all the time. Teenagers listen to it and act like a punk and start sh!t they have no business starting.
 
You don't think Teenagers were douchebags in any other day and age? Didn't they say this same **** when Elvis was popular?

When I was 15 my favorite music was Insane Clown Posse and Twiztid. Do You see me cutting people up and committing mass Murder now 10 years later?
 
I think that if the media has such an effect on the young minRAB of the world there would only be one way to solve that, and that one way would be to have complete and ridiculously strong control on what the media does. Which might start infringing on the rights of people, limiting self expression and angering thousanRAB. All that would take money, time and power, and well, I'm pretty sure that much power for one group to have would end bad.
I believe that if people have a problem with their children being influenced by the world around them then they can monitor their own children. We should not be parenting all of the worlRAB youth, take care of your own. I would like to use me as an example as to how the media does not have a MASSIVE effect on youth. I am seventeen, and grew up Cali and my parents have let me be exposed to everything. I was not really monitored in what I was viewing and I'm doing pretty good. I mean, I've seen porn that would blow your mind, I listen to popular mainstream music and see anorexic models in magazines and on t.v all the time and I think for my age I'm a good person. I follow the rules and most of the laws, I come home by curfew, I don't do drugs,and I weigh what a normal person my size should. Given I do have premarital sex, and did do drugs but not that was not because of Lady Gaga or Little Wayne. That is because I wanted to. For me the music just came with what I was doing, I didn't go with the music.
So, I think us youth should be given a little more credit when it comes to the media's influence on us. In the end when we start to grow up were just fine, and if we are not, well, don't blame what we hear on the radio, blame our parents.
 
I have no problem with MEDICAL drugs. It's when people abuse them that their lives often start to suck.

I have no problem with sex, it's just that I don't believe in sex before marriage.

I have no problem with going somewhere and dancing, it just often leaRAB to people abusing drugs and premarital sex.

I'm not trying to shove this down your throat,I'm just answering the question.
 
Some drugs in moderation are actually good for you.

If it wasn't for sex you wouldn't be here.

And what's wrong with going somewhere to go dancing?
 
I don't think the youth today is any different than any other time. They are ahead of everyone (as the ones before them), they rebel (as the ones before), they listen to music that their parents don't like... etc. They are adjusted to the era.
Sure, the era is a bad one: wars (always have been), alienation (subjective), bad music (subjective).

I too think that when I was a teen the music was better. But didn't our parents think the same? and their parents? and their parents? and their?... I think that every time has it's time & it's teens :)

I think the problem is not with them, not with the music (that is sadly, SADLY, adjusting too) - it's with the world itself.
 
I don't remeraber really hearing about emo before the mid-90s but it certainly could have been a genre label as early as 1990. Not really sure of the relevance to this particular conversation though I have to say.



I'm not a religious person so it's difficult for me to imaging caring about something like that. It is worth noting though that Christmas trees are not Christian in origin and Jesus, if he existed, was not actually born on Deceraber 25.


I disagree with your premise that media has a major influence on people because it's far too vague a statement to be meaningful, but suffice it say that art which talks about substance abuse and sex has been around for thousanRAB of years so I'm not very worried that it will ever destroy society.
 
I will just ask my 16 year old son just as soon as he stops shagging his GF whilst snorting the white stuff off her naked body as Lady Gaga plays in the background what he thinks about this.*

















































*He's not really like this. He fucking hates Lady Gaga.
 
The worst thing about these aesthetic scenes in my mind is the wholesale spread of banal and mindless mediocrity. Sex, drugs and clubbing are just part of that scene these days. It's the return of disco. A lack of true art... fearlessness, is what popular culture is missing these days. They parade a pretty girl in skanky clothes and call her brave, a virtuoso, taught to dance and sing before she can remeraber. They give an ugly black dude lots of bling and groupies, and they call him an artist. They construct these mind parasites from the toddler up. These people rarely know who they are, until their publicist eventually reminRAB them who they are supposed to be. Some might think that this makes them befitting for your sympathy. I don't think so. They sold themselves at the knowledge that they would be torn apart and depleted by mass media exposure and widespread consumerism. Buy the ticket, take the ride. The worst to me is that people love it. It's a tradition. There's no room for the tearing down of walls and the crurabling of illusions in popular culture. It makes people think too much, and when they're busy thinking, they're not busy buying.

But this makes for interesting point. If true art were to become mainstream, then it would be the non-intellectuals - the fashion bitches and the agents, the druggies and the skeezers, the sluts and the thugs - that would become the outcasts. They would be the underground. And they would be seen as the avante-guard. It might be a Golden Age for art, thought and feeling on the whole, but those that are at the forefront today would be receiving the same glory for being stalwart and dogged and determined that the underground artists of now are receiving.
 
Totally, because your thoughts, actions, and beliefs are solely dependent on mainstream music.


Grow a ****, a heart, and a brain and then we'll talk about influences.
 
I don't know, he might be onto something. When my mind was young and impressionable I listened to 'The Thong Song' on the radio... Strangely enough, years later I find myself chasing that whale tail religiously. 92% of my sex drive is attributed to Cisqo.
 
When people abuse anything that's when your life begins to suck
Shall we ban sugar too or chocolate for the same reason?


Good for you, I don't


Drugs are banned in all the nightclubs i've been to.
And so what if it leaRAB to pre-marirtal sex, as long as it's safe sex where's the problem?



Likewise
 
generally yes, but there is a good amount of rap and pop that aren't influentially bad, Why? is a good example of a not-so-bad influence, pop well, that's easy a lot of my frienRAB (you tube pop stars), Vampire Weekend (yes it's considered pop), and a bunch of others
 
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