Two current events related to my theme? There are more than two, dozens and dozens probably, but the one that actually did affect me personally, was my 14 year old brothers attitude and behavior, which is really frustrating.
I have noticed that as he grows up, he becomes more self-confident and impudent. Well, we can assume that this is normal for his age and it is a natural development; however the fact that most of the time he spends locked up in his bedroom,
with amplifiers on its maximum, reads books about Kurt Cobain’s biography using his dirty language whilst speaking, or spends hours researching different web pages about Hippies, is a little bit distracting. Music shapes his new world which is socially unfriendly and disturbing. He refuses to communicate with us, because “we simply can not understand him”. But come on, I was a 14 year old teenager 5 years ago, but did not think that the world was against me. Rather than listening to parents, he prefers taking advices from late Nirvana troubled frontman, who by the way committed suicide in 1994 God knows why. The scandal occurred when my mom found a pack of red Marlboro in his bedroom a month ago, because Gallaghers from Oasis smoke the same cigarettes! Unbelievable what a negative influence artists might have on kids. Gallagher brothers are seen smoking everywhere, in the professional pictures, during the concerts, during certain interviews… It is the part of their image, their music, their art. Cigarette, alcohol and violence became an integral element of art,
which helps products to sell. Come on, earning money can not be more important than healthy mentality of the future generation. It becomes more evident when you see someone close to you on the wrong track and can’t halt the process..! Well, I am against banning something as well, because personally I’m a democrat and support freedom in most of the aspects, but artists frequently forget that they are idolized by thousands of youngsters, due to whom they earn millions, so they are responsible towards them. Certain category of Music can be especially harmful. Yes, it has any right to exist, promoting it as something "valuable" and preaching youngsters to follow it, is incorrect and deceitful.
Although there are lots of different ways of music effects on young people, I absolutely agree about the negative influence of music. It can lead people to be in a situation of more violence, drug, alcohol, and cigarette addict because behaviors of young people can be affected by negative music or they want to imitate stars’ attitudes. However, are there any possible solutions for them not to be in trouble situations?
ReplyDeleteDefinitely, music nowadays is not just a music, which you listen to for a while, enjoy it and relax. It took much bigger and influential role. There is some kind of powerful connection between music and young people. The connection which, unfortunately, leads to many negative conclusions. But, of course, it depends on what kind of music young people are listening to, not all types of music affect them. "I want to fuck you like an animal" by Nine Inch Nails is a great example of which music can affect young people. However, this problem existed in the past too. For example, a very famous sad Hungarian music "Gloomy Sunday" composed by Rezso Seress in 1933 became the cause of various numbers of suicides, after which it was banned. However, this kind of cases were very rare in the past, while nowadays almost every second youngster has a problem of being affected by the music he or she listens to.
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