The most two types of music have explicit language are rap and hip-hop music. These music types have the quality of being arrogant, violent, and high self-esteem. Therefore, it has significant effects on young listeners. Moreover, based on Violent Music Lyrics Increase Aggressive Thoughts and Feelings by American Psychological Association (APA), in a study show that even songs with humorous lyrics can increase aggressive thoughts and feeling on listeners. It’s about racism, and greed or desire. Furthermore, people can easily recognize that most of the popular songs seem has the same themes as breakup, pain, regret, sadness. These themes fit for most of the situations of young listeners. Those are the reasons why these kinds of songs popular, and young listeners keep listening to these kinds of music. As Dr. Anderson said: “Aggressive thoughts can influence perceptions of ongoing social interactions, coloring them with an aggressive tint. Such aggression-biased interpretations can, in turn, instigate a more aggressive response-verbal or physical – than would have been emitted in a nonbiased state, thus provoking an aggressive escalatory spiral of antisocial exchanges” Violent lyrics song can create more hostile social environment. Young listeners may difficult to control their emotions and actions. They are in moods of easily to be evoked angry feelings. …show more content…
We also have the problem about sexual, drug and alcohol contents are contained in popular songs. They increase the society’s vices of young people. According to a new report in The Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, it shows that “one in three popular songs contains explicit references to drug or alcohol use”. Teenagers can easily access to the music sites out of the earshot of parents, and they spend an average of nearly 2.5 hours on listening to music per day. In the technology world, music is not only the rhythms, melodies or lyrics part, it also has videos or short clips to illustrate for the songs. As a results, the explicit lyrics correspond to the videos have the tone of sexual, drug, alcohol, or violence content. They are rapidly present on almost of the popular songs of today. Those media influences harm young people’s mind. It makes young people have bad behaviors, or habits. Similarly, in the article “Under the Influence of … Music?” Tara Parker-Pope suggests: “Exposure to images of smoking in movies influences a child’s risk for picking up the habit. Alcohol use in movies and promotions is also linked to actual alcohol use.” Next, bad content of songs or movies can increase the sexual attacks, drug desires by young people. Therefore, the contents of media or the content of song lyrics can make the huge change on a person’s