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Consequences of Rock

Who doesn’t love climbing into the car and catching one of their favorite songs just as it begins or waking up to an alarm clock singing that one song that helps to spring you out of bed and into the day? It affects everyone. It makes us excited or it could make us cry. Whether songs contain happy, sad, violent, sexual or vulgar lyrics, it affects one’s mood in both a positive or negative way. Lyrics have become gradually more explicit over the past several decades and contain dangerous messages that provide unethical ideas to our youth. Many think explicit lyrics and dark, violent images of band members cause malicious thoughts and deeds in our youth today. However, violent music cannot be all there is to blame for the corruption of our kids.
In the past few years, we have too often heard heartbreaking stories of children hurting or killing themselves or others while imitating scenes from violent movies and television shows, or acting out lyrics to violent songs. Acco...

Posted by: Darren McCutchen

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