Music is one of the most popular forms of entertainment in the world. It is something every age group can enjoy. Music is very influential to teenagers in our new millennium, yet many of the new and most popular forms of music advocate violence degrade women, others even promote sadism. With teen's new need for music poses the question of how does popular music affect their well-beings. Columbine is the most popular example of when a negative message in music can backfire and innocent lives were lost. Popular music is very powerful because of the notoriety of the artist and how he or she is seen as a role model, can a negative message in music play as entertainment or does music diminish their conscience and cause them to involve themselves on senseless acts of violence and debauchery.
Even in children music poses as a building block in their mental development, as they reach adolescents it begins to form media exposure and identities. Although most of popular music is......
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