Mary Magpie Writes:
Suggestive music fills our heads, iPods, and world. Have you ever bought a video game that was rated Teen because of “suggestive lyrics”? Everyone has. So what’s the deal with this music that is manipulative?
Songs about drugs are, i suppose, suggestive but when I hear a song about it, drugs don’t seem appealing. Songs about falling in love are good for that person that gives you butterflies and may give you ideas on what to say. But do songs about killing yourself or others really make you do it? If so, wouldn’t those bands be arrested?
You can write someone a letter telling them to murder somebody, and be put in jail. But a song about it doesn’t make you a criminal.
And what would happen if you heard a song about murdering someone you hate, and you did it and when asked why you did it, blame it on the band?
“Suggestive”? I think not.
Helen Bach writes:
Its an age old issue really. If music can make you feel can it make you ‘do’?
Bands like Marylin Manson have been blamed for ‘murderous activity’, wasn’t Twisted Sister in a scandal as well?
Manson Helter Skeltered, but the simple fact is if you’re a lunatic you’re going to behave as such and I don’t think a song is going to change that.
Seems kids who listen to metal or hardcore are most often those who get their musical preferences called to question for their behaviour. Violent words don’t make violent actions.
Or do they?
I have seen music work people into a frenzy. I have seen irrational behaviour coaxed on by music. But how weak is the mind that reacts?
Its a valid debate.
What came first? The voices in your head or the voices on your speakers and where does the line get drawn?
Any thoughts?