With the increase of different types of entertainment, music and videos constantly spare the time for the young and juvenile adolescents. Today's music artist want to appeal to everyone but mostly the teens because they can become loyal fans so they do whatever they can to attract us to them; every topic to sing, rap, talk, or think about during the public enemy and flava flav artist were still in the game, has already been put into a song except the concept of violence for what it is...VIOLENCE!! Back then songs were meant to inform "the man" or any political figure about: How they were feeling, what is going on in their life, what hardships are keeping them from their ultimate goal, or even why they do not have food on the table. Now it is like the tables have turned. Music has shifted and now we listen to songs that give detail into harming another person or how they will make that person's life horrible. Videos follow right along with this subject because now in videos you have guns, blood, weapons, and maybe even someone in pain right there. Where has the need to show the world how bad you beat someone up be a topic of interest? So my question is, do the media today affect how teens are attracted to violence and why we like it? To go into detail about this topic my other follow up ideas are; Could it be by the type of music (genre)?, did this get worse by the years?, What type of media has the greatest effect (t.v., music, internet)?, did this interest for violence happen over the years or just our generation?, and could there be an alternative to listening to this type of music?
DeAntre, this is a very good topic. I think you can do alot with this and it seems already as though you can find good supporting evidence to your questions. not only the evidence gained from your questions will be strong, but your questions in general are very strong and can show a good, strong, controversial blog. keep up the good work.
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