Sometimes I feel like I need a Sweet Escape from today’s music.
Maybe you don’t realize it, but our music (judged on the top five downloads of the past 3 years) has an average of three sexual references per song.
Shocking, isn’t it?
Many people say, “It’s only lyrics. They don’t affect me anyway, right?”
Wrong.
Test yourself: have you ever found it really Hard to get a song out of your head? No matter how much you try to forget about it, it seems to keep Replaying over and over again?
I know I have, and I Gotta Feeling that every one of you reading this has had a song stuck in your head before.
Music is powerful. Have you ever been listening to a song then looked down at your feet, realizing that they have been tapping along without you consciously realizing it?
Any force that can physically affect us is powerful and potentially dangerous.
I am appalled and amazed at music’s ability to affect students dancing at Granite Bay High School dances.
Let’s have an imaginary interview. Would you Get Low with your “friend” for 30 minutes straight during lunch in the middle of the quad?
…No, that’s gross and offensive…
Watcha Say you Get Low with your “friend” for a few hours in the cafeteria?
…Yeah!, let’s Just Dance the night away…
Imma B honest with you: this is pathetic.
Popular music drives people to do what they shouldn’t. It lowers our inhibitions Down to the point that it changes who we are.
Popular music is ugly.
Popular music is sleazy.
Popular music is downright gross.
And those lyrics we listen to will stay with us forever. How many of you found yourself singing the songs whose titles I snuck into this column?
Most of you were probably singing them at least One Time…
I rest my case.
Maybe you don’t realize it, but our music (judged on the top five downloads of the past 3 years) has an average of three sexual references per song.
Shocking, isn’t it?
Many people say, “It’s only lyrics. They don’t affect me anyway, right?”
Wrong.
Test yourself: have you ever found it really Hard to get a song out of your head? No matter how much you try to forget about it, it seems to keep Replaying over and over again?
I know I have, and I Gotta Feeling that every one of you reading this has had a song stuck in your head before.
Music is powerful. Have you ever been listening to a song then looked down at your feet, realizing that they have been tapping along without you consciously realizing it?
Any force that can physically affect us is powerful and potentially dangerous.
I am appalled and amazed at music’s ability to affect students dancing at Granite Bay High School dances.
Let’s have an imaginary interview. Would you Get Low with your “friend” for 30 minutes straight during lunch in the middle of the quad?
…No, that’s gross and offensive…
Watcha Say you Get Low with your “friend” for a few hours in the cafeteria?
…Yeah!, let’s Just Dance the night away…
Imma B honest with you: this is pathetic.
Popular music drives people to do what they shouldn’t. It lowers our inhibitions Down to the point that it changes who we are.
Popular music is ugly.
Popular music is sleazy.
Popular music is downright gross.
And those lyrics we listen to will stay with us forever. How many of you found yourself singing the songs whose titles I snuck into this column?
Most of you were probably singing them at least One Time…
I rest my case.
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