That young people becoming desensitise to voilence in media

In order to get a better understanding of how artists have influenced popular culture and how it can lead to having a negative effect (if any at all) on society. For example the Columbine High School shooting in Colorado, USA in which two teenagers went into their high school and open fire on staff and students. This caused another ‘moral panic’ as the first thing to be blamed for the incident was the boys taste in music. In this case it was a band and man called Marilyn Mason, a Goth band that promotes violence and speaks out towards the normal Christian morals of society. For

Overall, with the rise of hip-hop and other sub-cultural music becoming a major part of popular music, it is causing our moral standards as society to drop and therefore it is desensitising the youth view on violence and with more and more artists promoting this kind of view it can only have a negative effect. As long as we live in a society that is based on the ideology of ‘the land of the free’ then there can be no way to truly censor our music and keep it out of the hands of the youth who can only misread the text and take it for granted that we are social allowed to live in their world.

However in those two years he has desensitised the mainstreams perception of what is morally right and wrong. As some of his fans accept his views on women and sexuality as the norm in society, for example a song that quotes lyrics such as, ‘Oh, now he’s raping’ his own mother, abusing a whore, snorting coke, and we gave him the Rollin Stone cover?’ taken from his song Kill You (2000). Even the song title itself represents the dark violent underground of drug taking, wife beating, and white trash that is normally found in area of high poverty rates. And with Helmore view that he is a ‘cultural icon’ causes concern that our children are being brain washed by this type of music. This is where Eminem is cashing in on the current moral panic with being a white man who is now representing black issues and black problems in the white mainstream. In Helmore’s article he compares Eminem to Elvis for role that he has played by bring predominately black music into the white eye and like Elvis the white mainstream are buying it happily. And with his movie ‘8 Mile’ making £54.5 million pounds in its first weekend he is already a bigger success than Elvis.

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