Tuesday, March 15, 2011

WHO IS RESPONSIBLE?

There are some steps that are done before listen to a song. The whole process when you buy a material from your favorite singer, from that very moment until the time you listen to your favorite song, it should be a grateful experience: from beginning to end. Even though the record companies are a fundamental part of the cycle, it is not the only one responsible for bringing inadequate music to the young people, but it has equal or even more responsibility for selling music that can be a threat for young people. It is true and a fact that there are civil rights that everybody has, being one of them the freedom to express, but perhaps this right gives them the freedom to sell everything without caution regardless the consumer or at any cost?

Are the record companies ready or disposed to be involved with this matter? What are the consequences that are needed to see and be more cautious? I can imagine and is pretty sure that one of the primary goals that the record companies have is to launch singers in the market which can sell their music, earning with this a very good profit, but within this purpose, does exist the care of do not offend the susceptibilities of the listeners?

Maybe, the same control should not be done for every song, because, in spite of the kind of music, there is a bunch of singers that maybe the lyric is not the perfect one to express something, because is not their priority, but the rhythm found in a particular song. If this is not the case, and the lyric shows violence, envy, hate, or just nothing good for the listener, so, why don’t prevent or advise for the content? Like the rate of parental control or the advices shown in the movies, thus, the caregivers could know exactly what they are buying for their teens or have more information and knowledge about this issue.

Probably the advisories on the music that the record companies put before the distribution, is not precisely the most indicated, and the young people can have access to music with lyrics that can distort their minds since they are people with no experience and vulnerable to be trapped. There have been many cases in which young students have committed suicides inspired in a subliminal message given in a song. Mistakenly, the ideas expressed in those songs are perceived in a wrong way and do not incite to kill themselves, but the fact of being in a place without control, or surrounded by friends with lack of values, would conspire to have those bad results. Unfortunately, their parents did not recognize any possible signal of any different behavior, and at the end, they are as much surprised as the rest of the people. Parents should have control over their children’s stuff, tastes, friends, and they should have interest in any change of mood or behavior in them, because I think those are the main signs that something is not going good.

2 comments:

  1. I like that you also agree that parents should be held responsible for what their children are listening to, watching, and doing. I mean, after all, whose child is it?! It irritates me that everyone wants to blame everything on the media and their "influence" on young minds. I am by no means claiming that they are completely without fault. The media TOO has a responsibility to society to not expose children to violence, graphic language, sex, drug/alcohol use, and suicide. It’s a shame that due to increased exposure to these things, children have become accustomed to it, or desensitized. Society is taking a step back when our youth doesn’t know a world without violence and other dismal influences. I think that they should instead be working on sending positive messages to young Americans, encouraging them to be devoted members in their communities and overall good Samaritans. I have recently noticed ads on television that focus on values and I think it’s great. That is what I want to see more of. Wouldn’t you want your children to be watching commercials that encourage having values rather than a commercial for, I don’t know, let’s say Captain Morgan?

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  2. It is exactly the way I think. Thanks for your comments.

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