Music The Beatles, “shocked the world” with their lyrics although today America has an abundance of uncensored language and context. Companies are striving for profits, while children are the main consumers. Music has become more explicit with music videos, radio and downloadable music displaying explicit behavior. There is evidence that listening to music with sexual content in the lyrics makes youth more likely to start having sex earlier than their peers. (Primack) Many genres such as hip-hop and rap have received criticism for their influence on life style choices in youth. Boundaries are being pushed within the context of music being directed to youth and this is cause for an increase in behavioral problems. Popular music’s uncensored
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Supporters of non-censored music such as artists argue that they will lose profit. Advisory labels that are used to tell parents that music has explicit content may not be sold in such stores such as Wal-Mart. (Holz) While although artists may feel as though they are loosing profits from giving warning labels to parents, artists voluntary label their products. Laws do not outlaw artists from making advisory labels mandatory. This leads to children being able to download and purchase any version of songs. Ultimately we are not protecting children from inappropriate language that could be avoided with mandatory advisory labels. Advisory labels not only help in the protection of the youth but label to parents as well what their children are listening to. Some stores place explicit music labels in designated areas in order to make sure parents know what to buy. It is important that parents are given the right to be able to understand what their children are …show more content…
This was used for the government to control the content that was being broadcasted. The 50’s were rise for music that contained context of sex and violence. In the 1960’s lyrical content was the main reason for music censorship. This act although may have interfered with arteritis thoughts it created positive outlooks for adolescents. With this bands such as The Rolling Stones changed the lyric of one song from “Let’s spend the night together” to “Let’s spend some time together” (Jones 76) It is important to maintain an understanding that youth look up to ideals such as those in bands. The government enacting laws to ensure context being controlled is important in the development of youth. Today there is a lack of censorship within music and music videos. With the lack of censorship this has been cause for more behavioral issues in younger age groups. According to Federal Communication Commission regulations, the broadcast of obscene, indecent and profane material may be unlawful.(Elkouby) Radio stations may be actually be violating their public interest obligation by playing music that shows sex, drug use, rap and other unlawful behavior. Although we do instill laws to try and protect the youth within the music industry there is a three-pronged test that obscene material must meet. The film and video industries have been violating this in the upcoming years. With this behavioralproblems seen
Supporters of non-censored music such as artists argue that they will lose profit. Advisory labels that are used to tell parents that music has explicit content may not be sold in such stores such as Wal-Mart. (Holz) While although artists may feel as though they are loosing profits from giving warning labels to parents, artists voluntary label their products. Laws do not outlaw artists from making advisory labels mandatory. This leads to children being able to download and purchase any version of songs. Ultimately we are not protecting children from inappropriate language that could be avoided with mandatory advisory labels. Advisory labels not only help in the protection of the youth but label to parents as well what their children are listening to. Some stores place explicit music labels in designated areas in order to make sure parents know what to buy. It is important that parents are given the right to be able to understand what their children are …show more content…
This was used for the government to control the content that was being broadcasted. The 50’s were rise for music that contained context of sex and violence. In the 1960’s lyrical content was the main reason for music censorship. This act although may have interfered with arteritis thoughts it created positive outlooks for adolescents. With this bands such as The Rolling Stones changed the lyric of one song from “Let’s spend the night together” to “Let’s spend some time together” (Jones 76) It is important to maintain an understanding that youth look up to ideals such as those in bands. The government enacting laws to ensure context being controlled is important in the development of youth. Today there is a lack of censorship within music and music videos. With the lack of censorship this has been cause for more behavioral issues in younger age groups. According to Federal Communication Commission regulations, the broadcast of obscene, indecent and profane material may be unlawful.(Elkouby) Radio stations may be actually be violating their public interest obligation by playing music that shows sex, drug use, rap and other unlawful behavior. Although we do instill laws to try and protect the youth within the music industry there is a three-pronged test that obscene material must meet. The film and video industries have been violating this in the upcoming years. With this behavioralproblems seen