Many young adults enter the real world as they begin college. The college experience is much like a butterfly coming out of its cocoon. Young people get the chance to express themselves more than ever before, without the restraints of parents. Not only is college the time for learning, but the college scene has become a sanctuary for the “postwar teenage sexual behavior” (258). The culture is seen as somewhat liberating for girls in general, but girls are still seen as the prize possession by males.

Not all types of music are governed by gender. Typical punk music does not consist of romance and is liberating for women, as they now become the subjects, rather than the objects. Female musicians in the punk world of music are far from that of the ideology of rock music; having a “strident insistence that was far removed from the appeal of most postwar glamour girls” (265). The suggested effect of punk music is that on highly self-referential complication of voice, identity, and personal agency. The female scream assumes a new role, confrontational; of which their sonic intensity was previously associated with the male screams of heavy metal vocalists. Most of all, female screams in punk music has acted as liberating and empowering realizations of the female experience, and has opened performative pathways for a whole generation of audience members containing women. Kelly Osbourne, daughter of rock legend Ozzy Osbourne and Sharon Osbourne, came on the punk scene in 2002. One of her most liberating songs on her first album was “Shutup” in which she states:

The majority of today’s music ranges from classical all the way to the most liberal; punk and rock metal. In terms of the most liberal style of music for females, punk music would fall into that category, but rock and roll would limit women in respect to being objects of desire rather than subjects. Music can be effective in many ways, all the way from soothing one’s soul to liberating one’s needs. In today’s society gender is misinterpreted in many areas

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Simon Frith, Sharon Osbourne, Help I've, Elvis Presley, , Limp Bizkit, Inch Nails, rock music, Kelly Osbourne, women seen, punk music, chance express, prize possession, liberating women, round round, shut up/, styles music, today’s music,