As you have probably heard if you listen to Rap and Hip Hop or maybe even the radio, new-comer rapper “Tyler, The Creator” makes it evident that he is not afraid to say explicit words, make sexual remarks, and threaten celebrities. In this new hit song off of his new album “Goblin”, from the very first line, you find out just what his “message” is. “I’m a f**kin’ walkin’ paradox, no I’m not, t**eesomes with a f**kin’ triceratops”. In this very first line of the song, he curses twice, and makes a sexual reference. Does this type of language and attitude affect our teenager’s minds and academic grades?
According to my research, it does not affect academic achievement. After plenty of time of surveys and accessing articles, the conclusion was established that violent and explicit music affects a teenager’s moods and thoughts, and not their actions, which their actions are traced into their grades.
On almost the opposite side of music is Nirvana’s infamous and controversial song, “Rape Me”. This song contains no explicit language, but does have a supposedly violent message to it. When “Rape Me” came out in 1994 off of Nirvana’s third and final album, “In Utero”, many anti-rape associations and media immediately criticized it, saying it encouraged raping. Even though the lyrics directly said “Rape me, rape me, my friend”, Kurt Cobain almost meant it in a sarcastic way representing a story he had heard of about a girl named Polly who was raped after a grunge concert.
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