Eminem's Influence On Society

In modern day society, people are influenced by many things. Everyday citizens watch television, read the newspaper, and browse the internet. These forms of media differ from generation to generation, but the one influence that everyone experiences on a daily basis is music. Everyone on earth has experienced music in some form, whether it be when they get in the car, doing homework, or if they are just doing chores around the house. Due to music being so popular in the world, it is a large influence on society. The influence of music, specifically rap and hip-hop, has been a contributing cause towards societies disrespect towards women. The leading genre of music that has written songs that degrade the dignity of women, which has led to women …show more content…
The music that has been produced by Mathers has also changed the way that some women are attracted to men. Whenever Mathers first started becoming very popular, the media started making him seem like a “sexy bad boy” because of his background and the attitude he portrayed in his music. The media also covered up for Eminem by saying that he does not mean what he says. So even though he says that he hates women and wants to kill them, he actually loves women. Due to the media emphasizing Eminem as a sex symbol and portraying someone that actually loves girls despite saying otherwise multiple times, girls began to be encouraged by what the magazines were saying and actually became attracted towards Mathers. By motivating females to be attracted towards Eminem, society soon found that females were now looking for men with the same kind of stereotypical “bad boys” that have no respect for …show more content…
Fans of Eminem claim that they understand that the lyrics that he writes are not all true. But what people do not understand is that although they may know his lyrics are not entirely factual, there are people out there, especially youth, that do not know that his music is fictional. It is pretty obvious that they main subjects that Mathers writes about are raping, torturing, harassing, and murdering women. If there was only one song that he wrote on these subjects it would be hard to say Eminem is a main contributor to the issue with society, but he has written countless tracks about these horrible subjects. Due to him continuously writing about these subjects, audiences that listen to him will change the way they view respect for