Is today's music teaching anything positive to young people?

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Music will always influence the way young people think. It could be described as the way feelings would sound and, because of this, it has a huge impact on the more emotionally unbalanced members of society - youths. Young people's personalities are not fully developed and they are easily influenced and swayed. We have all heard about the negative messages that modern music is sending to young people - from violence, sex and drugs to money, depression and hatred. But I'm interested to know if today's music is having a positive effect at all?

yes (please comment) 13
No (please comment) 30
Too much music to generalize and choose a yes or no answer 44
Other (comment) 1
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  • dom180
    10 years ago | pl

    Just because music has those negative messages doesn't always make it bad. Music about depression and hatred and fear teach people, young and old, that it's normal and okay to have those thoughts. It provides a positive outlet for those feelings, and the communities attached to that music can help people too. There's a lot of music with directly positive messages today too. Music helps me a lot when I'm not happy, both "pop music" and other sorts. I won't deny there's some genuinely potentially damaging messages in music, but there's negative messages in every aspect of life (including real life, which people should be prepared for).

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    • [Old Memory]
      10 years ago

      It's ok to hate and to be depressed?

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      10 years ago

      A good point and well made.

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  • [Old Memory]
    10 years ago | pl

    Music has always been the same, the song always remains the same.

    What you're speaking of is "mainstream music" something that turns your brain to poop. The upside being that most people with "mainstream" sensibilities are already just big piles of poop.

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  • IDiGAFi
    10 years ago

    I voted "other" as in "I don't give a shinning fuck".

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      10 years ago

      Ok thanks for sharing

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  • anti-hero
    10 years ago

    Has "Today's" music... popular music of any generation throughout time, every taught anyone anything positive? Has it taught them anything at all? Popular music is purposefully watered down and pointless. That "music" is made to entice 12 year old girls to buy shit.

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      10 years ago

      yeah that's a good point. In answering your question though, I think the cultural revolution of the 1960's was fuelled by music. You only have to look at the effect the Beatles had, they liberated youth to look and act past the confines and conventional styles and mentality of the decades prior. Bob Dylan, Simon and Garfunkel, really reached their audiences and I think expanded people's minds to think more open mindedly, constructively, with freedom. Some argue it was a mixture of this and the drugs of the time.
      Thank you for your comment and I acknowledge what you've said about the lucrative nature of the tween market. I think that has definitely been exploited in the last 3 decades.

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  • Stifler
    10 years ago

    Depends if you believe in the Iluminati.

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  • Short4Words
    10 years ago

    Sometimes yea.

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  • Anime7
    10 years ago

    Same Love by Macklemore is a good example of how music hasn't gone downhill and probably never will as long as artists try to be good role models.

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  • bananaface
    10 years ago

    I don't think we should censor music, although I do understand why someone would find it worrying (I can't think of many role models making chart music). I mean, people can produce and listen to whatever music they want, and I understand wanting to listen to completely mindless music every now and again. It would be nice to see some more music which you could call art, though, not just entertainment.

    Because of that difference I don't think any of those topics should be avoided at all; if written about in the right way, they can make absolutely fantastic songs. Countless bad songs have been made about those things too, it depends what the musician is trying to get across and how they do that. I mean, there are songs where the musician just sings about how cool they for taking drugs *all* the time, and others which show the negative results of drugs and addiction (quite a few of my favourites are about the latter). And I've always had a preference for more depressing songs, I find them cathartic. I'd much sooner have songs about depression than happy, chirpy songs all the time. It isn't real, and *that* would depress me. Maybe we just need a bit more balance.:)

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  • Teh4HorsMen
    10 years ago

    Music today is no longer able to be considered music. It is SHIT.

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  • Wendell
    10 years ago

    The real music doesn't

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