THE INFLUENCE OF MUSIC
It is for sure and everybody will agree with me that the music brings happiness and comfort and it is like a remedy to heal any pain, or a motivation when you want to celebrate or just hang out with your friends. What has the music hidden? Definitely, there are millions of lyrics where you can choose from and find the precise one to listen to in any change of mood, but, is there any influence in your behavior? I am pretty sure there is. In the same way the music can influence in a positive manner to you when doing a homework, dreaming about your wedding, taking a nap thinking in your future as a manager (or something like that), there is sometimes, a side apart from all of these facts.
In reference a Deena Weinstein essay, there is a generalization about the misinterpretation of the heavy metal music. In fact, there are songs that were not dedicated precisely to God, good manners, or get well after a dark episode. Most of them refer to invite how to take a detour your acts from the correct way, or at least, the way it is supposed to follow by the rules of the society. I think this is the core of this issue. People that do not agree with the established things and pretend solve by changing or try to change the behavior of anyone else. Maybe those singers do not pretend to influence in a negative way to those young people; adolescents that follow the lyrics, until even commit suicide. Maybe they just want to set up the freedom that in a moment of their lives they did not have the freedom for doing things without any remorse. Unfortunately, there are many cases where young kids for the same reason that they are still adolescents, do not measure the exact weight of their acts
What so responsible are they? Are they supposed to be an example for following? Or, are the record companies the responsible?
In some songs, the interpretation of the lyric is obvious. Sometimes I think the title gives more information than even the lyric by itself.
I am not the kind of person that is only follower to the white music or that I feel affected to the music that reveals maybe more than the supposed to be listened to, but I would prefer not to listen to that kind of music because it is too much for me.
Generally, the kids with problems of conduct, or problems with their parents, usually are followers and fans of the heavy music. It is like a rebellion, a way to protest against something is bothering, or is not fashion. After this, the lack of respect is imminent and the lost of values came in some cases; the same violence that precisely those lyrics offers. However, there is no doubt that in many cases, the lyrics and the songs have a hidden side that is not always the dark one that we are used to think, but the one that heals or tells a bad episode.
I like the approach you took on this topic. I completely agree with you that music is a place to heal and to escape everything; I am a firm believer of that. I like how you brought up the fact that heavy metal provides the message of taking of taking a detour in life that it is okay to be something that we are not. I always felt that heavy metal was a genre for the youth, were they could express themselves verbally and be rebellious to all those that oppose them. Like you said, I also do not think that the artists from this genre intended for younger individuals to interpret the lyrics negatively, all they wanted was an out let to release their pain and to make themselves heard. But I guess younger people interpret the lyrics as giving up on life and not that of being rebellious.
ReplyDeleteOne of the last things that you mentioned was that those kids who lack guidance or support from their parents are the ones who tend to gain interest in heavy metal. I do agree with this because again they feel that heavy metal is an out let for them but also like you said they lack any type of respect for anything including themselves at times so I think that is where the negative intake of music comes from. I feel that music is what it is and that we are the ones who are responsible for our actions not music, it may influence us but it is not the sole reason for what we do.
Exactly, music is not always responsible for our actions...thanks for your comment.
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