Have you ever tried hearing a grip load of songs that mention stuff about getting brains aka "head", or how about come back to my place and I will please you? What happened to the traditional songs like just saying that you like someone? This is aggravating that the music company often resorts to encouraging songs about sex as f***ing....Hello, songs like these still reach the radio and guess what todays kids are getting smarter as the generations continue. The kids are eventually going to realize what little code words mean in songs.
Songs are creating more curiousity in kids that make them want to go out and try new things. Kids are grinding on eachother more in dances! Come on now isn't this a sign for people that run dances? The new generation calls it the style now, but is it really just the style?
We hear about statistics of teens having sex and those coming out with aids or hiv.... I think music can have some part in the blame of this. I would be ignorant to think that people don't have a choice on whether they have sex or not, but curiousity from music is creating more sexual activity between teens if you think about it.
I agree that music has become more sex based and it seems like kids are having sex at younger ages. It's pretty insane! I think music is a huge part of it. I think if they keep them a littl emore kid friendly and promoted things like condoms and waiting for the right perosn( I dont neccessarily mean abstenince) then we would have fewer teen pregnancies.
I have to agree with you on the fact that the music industry should promote condoms, because to me it seems that they never mention it in their music really.
I can see it now...
Fiddy's next song:
"I love you baby/let's not go crazy/My rubber will go on/right when i finish this song/safe sex, baby, is the way to go/this is the anthem, yo..."
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What's the worst that could happen, apart from all of us being flattened or fried or whatever bombs do? [Rudy Steiner from The Book Thief]
"Let's make it last hon/No need to rush it/Our lives are numbah one/Sides I don't wanna get hitched/And babies are expensive yo"
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What's the worst that could happen, apart from all of us being flattened or fried or whatever bombs do? [Rudy Steiner from The Book Thief]
this reminds me of a song lyric..."play me a song to set me free, nobody writes them like they used to so it might as well be me." i love to write poetry to spread messages of peace and love and encourage others how we SHOULD be living despite a world filled with so many negative things.
as a high school senior, every class that has come behind me has gotten much worse as far as involvement in drugs and alcohol, horrible attitudes, carelessness about grades...i think it mirrors the pop culture trends. i shudder to think of what high school students will be in 10 years...
Yeah, it is a horrible feeling about what the newer generations are going to be like. I hear kindergartners already cussing and it just stuns me. I just can not fully imagine how the kids in my little brothers class are, now.
Everyone always thinks the younger kids are worse than they were...
I remember being in elementary school, and when adults weren't around we talked just as bad as they do now.
I promise you that HS students won't be fornicating in the hallways in ten years.
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"I'm not sure she really understands how it works..."
well if by fornicate you mean having sex in the hallways...I would say no. Trust me kids have sex at school and they find ways. We had a girl who was caught giving head to some guy in the locker room.
Song lyrics have always been sexual. I would bet that's what most songs are, were and always will be about. And it's not likely that music has that much of an influence over kids' sex lives.
it's okay. I have a black gay friend.
I agree that song lyrics may have been like that in the past, but at least in the pass they weren't so much straight forward.
Lyrics about sex definitely used to be more subtle than they are now. I think sublty is highly underrated. have you ever listened to a song that you loved when you were younger, and finally realized what they were talking about?
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I did a paper two semesters ago about sex, in it I found that the real number of teens having sex is much less than the idea currently in the heads of society.
Regardless, the argument that songs are only about sex has been around since people stopped dancing to the song doggy in the window (and I am sure somebody somewhere spun that song too).
IF you are looking for a song about romance they ARE out there I will give you a few to help you out.
My Heart by Paramore
Hero/Heroine by Boys Like Girls
The Mixed Tape by Jacks Mannequin
No One by Alicia Keys
The Minstrel's Prayer by Cartel
Brandy Alexander by Feist
One Thing by Finger Eleven
First Time by Lifehouse
Your Guardian Angel by The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
You and Me by Plain White T's
I could easily list over 1000 songs made in the 2000's...
hope that restore a bit of you belief in romance ;)
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"I'm not sure she really understands how it works..."
Our Song - Taylor Swift
Ever Ever After - Carrie Underwood
Lost in this Moment - Big & Rich
Just to name a few off the top of my head... I got distracted and am too tired to think of more.
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Taylor Swift is a cutie :)
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She really is. :)
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haha, I was next to my computer reading, and whenever I got a new e-mail (and new subscription change, lol) I'd click on the link and of course have something to say.
Don't worry, I really was doing homework! lol
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What's the worst that could happen, apart from all of us being flattened or fried or whatever bombs do? [Rudy Steiner from The Book Thief]
The world is basically about fucking. It's about learning fuck, not like fucking, liking fucking and metaphorically fucking. I wouldn't take it to Freudian extremes, but adult and adolescent relations are extremely sexually charged. Teens, and pretty much everybody older than a teen wants to have sex, thats why there are so many songs about it. Sex causes songs to be written, and generally popular artists lack the skill to write love songs, or the medium isn't conducive to love songs and ballads.
Honestly one of the best songs that expresses the relationship between love and sex and people is "Hallelujah" written by Leonard Cohen, but I recommend the Jeff Buckley version. It's much much better.
Any sexy song lyrics are a symptom of the human need to have sex and the part of human nature devoted to sexuality. The attitude with which it is approached popularly can affect the attitude with which kids approach sex but does not cause sex or unsafe sex practices. Sex happens all the time among pretty much anybody who knows where they want things to go, and has for all eternity.
Sex is a fact of of life and relationships, not some kind of bogey monster or secret to be revealed.
Res ipsa loquitur.
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I love "Hallelujah" song by Jeff Buckley. It's absolutely beautiful.
I definitely think that music has something to do with it.
All the rap songs only talk about having multiple partners, and the bulk of younger kids listen to rap because they think it's the cool thing to do. And naturally, they want to be just like the cool rappers so they want to act, dress, and say the same things that the rappers say.
It's pretty appalling when you discover that a 12-year-old is pregnant, or that there are 5 pregnant girls in your high school.
Not to mention that there are about four dozen guys notorious for "hitting it and quitting it."
If rap wasn't as explicit as it is, I definitely think that that rate would go down.
I don't listen to rap, and I don't act like that. Maybe there is a correlation??
I'm sorry, but to me that is just a very very silly point of view. That doesn't give enough credit to kids, people can think on their own. Not to mention rates of teens having sex are much lower than people actually think. If you asked the general adult population how many high schoolers are having sex they would probably say a number over half, when in actuality it is under 14 percent....
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Who told us that we ought to be walking in a straight line keeping the peace? The Bible is full of risk-takers, people who took a look around and said HEY this isn't right!
Kids should be held more accountable for their actions, but unfortunately, kids today aren't like kids 30 years ago. They pretty much think they can do whatever they want and get away with it since parents aren't allowed to discipline their kids anymore. It's much easier for society to blame music and television for their kids behavior since they can't really punish their kids.
Country music is, last time I checked, the most popular music in the first world. So, I would expect a lot of people finding girlfriends, drinking so much that the girlfriends leave, and then driving a pickup through their living room by your theory. Yet, for some unknown reason, drinking your girlfriend away and then trying to kill her or kill yourself with whiskey has not become massively popular in England.
Music has a pretty limited effect on our attitudes towards life and sex. It is more a symptom than a motivator.
Res ipsa loquitur.
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As a country music fan, I take offense to the way you stereotype country music. My favorite current songs are about 1) two teenagers describing their relationship (non-sexual, by the way), 2) a guy writing a letter to his teenage self, telling him to just sit back and enjoy life, 3) a father watching his daughter go off to college, 4) a man realizing that his girlfriend doesn't love him, so he leaves peacefully, even though it hurts him, and 5) the chronicles of a girl growing up with a father who expected to have a son.
All but one of those is currently in the top 20 country songs in the US right now. The one that isn't peaked at number 16 a short while ago on the Billboard Hot 100, and was number 1 on country charts last year (all according to billboard.com).
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Sorry, didn't mean to offend, but the reason for my stereotype was twofold. First of all, I don't listen to modern country besides Hank III (and he is barely country anyway). If and when I do listen to country it is more old school country like Hank Williams, Johnny Cash or a few little local CDs I have picked up. Now, obviously not every song fits within the stereotype, and I can't actually think of a song where anybody drives a pickup through a living room. However, these older songs tend to be more sorrowful or vengeful. The most immediate song that comes to mind is "Cocaine Blues."
Secondly, it was necessary to use a ridiculous stereotype of country music to make my point that kids don't immediately imitate the stereotypical lyrics of a specific musical genre. If I hadn't used a one dimensional stereotype my response would have lost a lot of punch and immediacy.
Res ipsa loquitur.
memento mori, mahalo.
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Papa Loved Mama, by Garth Brooks
Now, it's not a pickup truck, it's a semi. And it's not a living room, it's a hotel room, but still...
My boyfriend hates country music exactly because he thinks all it is is the things you described (and yet, one of the songs he actually does like is about revenge on a guy who's been cheating). It's a little pet peeve of mine.
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In my experience most good country music tells a story. I just happen to like the grittier, meaner side of country, that isn't particularly prevalent nowadays, or I just haven't been paying attention. I actually kind of like "sitting in the bar, drinking myself to death and bitching that whiskey has ruined my life," country.
Thanks for the song by the way. I will have to check it out.
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songs even from our parent's time have had small innuendos in them, but they didn't use cursing to describe it. it wasn't as graphic back then as it is now.
i agree with you, cause i even wrote a blog about this: http://progressiveu.org/004738-dirty-sex-1-or-best-offer
it's not so much about falling in love; music now is mostly about sex. it does put the wrong picture in kid's heads. I babysit this one kid who knew all the words to "smack that" by akon. they might not know what they're singing now, but later they will catch on.
think about it. how many times have you listened to a song on the radio without thinking about the lyrics. at least the first two times i hear a song, i don't know what's it's talking about (unless it's extremely obvious). later on when it clicks, i decide if i really like it or not.