Unfortunately, children and young adults are among the most susceptible for music to have an impact on their lives. Some critics state that, “music negatively affects teenagers by repeatedly exposing them to themes such as Satanism, substance abuse, murder, suicide and sexual violence, which may be heavily reinforced and normalized by the frequency of their portrayal.” (Youth) Many speculate that violent song

lyrics can have a “cause and effect” relationship between adverse behavioral effects. You hear it over and over, so you automatically think it is an okay thing to do. This can be most easily proved by taking the 1999

immoral ideas have been replayed in so many kids, and even adults minds that many think these are every day, normal actions, and this is in fact how women want, and should be treated. In retrospect, this can’t be farther from the truth! Sut Jhally, a communications professor at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst explains that, “You tend to act on the stories you have access to.” (Christenson) For example, “Hansen & Hansen (1988) demonstrated that exposure to videos containing female sexual subordinate content had profound effects on subsequent judgments of male-female interactions.” (Johnson) Seeing these videos lead both men and women to change their opinions on interactions within their relationships to each other.

Columbine High School shootings into consideration. For example, “66% of 13- to 17-year-olds believe violence in music is partly responsible.” (Kandaki 69) They believe that if the students had not been so desensitized to common ethics and morals such as murder, they would have never have thought that slaughtering their peers was an okay thing to carry out.

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