Thursday, September 30, 2010

Music Today: Not For Kids (Analysis)

Based on the survey I've done; some complication happened as I wasn't able to get in contact with the juniors and as well as, not everyone answered the survey. Only an average 40% of people answered my survey. And I thank you. :)

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Children these days are not like us or our parents back then. They are much quicker in understanding things as well as much quicker at being influence; be it good things or bad things. Yes, probably they won’t understand the complete meaning of what Rihanna is singing in Rude Boy or what My Chemical Romance (MCR) sings in their song Teenagers, but slowly, they will learn to understand what it means. If not by you explaining to them what’s the real meaning of disco stick or why someone wants to get into someone else’s panties as sung by 3OH!3 in My First Kiss, these kids, these future generations will go online and check the lyrics.
When people listen to songs like Hotel Room by Pitbull or Love Game by Lady Gaga, they know how the artists are like thus they tend to picture some very ‘interesting’ video in their heads. Imagine your younger siblings watching whatever video you’re playing in your head, surely you would straight away change the channel and tell them that they shouldn’t watch such things are they are not ready. But, these kids are fast learners, when we were 9 years old, not all of us know how to use the internet, but now, they have their own facebook or what not. They know how to excess youtube and there they are able to watch whatever you told them not to.
Even censorship doesn’t work nowadays. Clearly when MCR sings “They say all teenagers scare the living **** out of me,” we could easily tell what the censored word was. But now some music artists, they don’t want their songs to be censored so they wrote songs where they use everyday words and make them into a whole new meaning. Songs with double meanings, how cool and how bad is that? Besides picking up foul words from movies or video games, kids these days pick up foul words from songs too.
So what can be done to stop songs from spreading negativity to other innocent minds? Censorship is not that effective so put that aside. People can’t go up to music artists and tell them their songs are giving bad influence to underage children, its freedom of expression, why should they hold back? Based on my research, 81% agreed that radio stations should filter the songs that they play on the radio, but the other 19% argued that if radio stations do that, they will lose a lot of listeners. So, what can people do to protect their children?
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