An idea believed by many people is that music has a significant effect on the way people think. Professional psychologists say that the lyrics used in music today has a brain-washing effect. This brain-washing effect is supposed to make the listener become so overwhelmed with the lyrics of the song that the person feels that it’s a must to act on what was heard. It doesn’t matter if what they do is accepted or not.

It is common to believe that the type of music that provides unacceptable content is rap (hip-hop) music, or rock-n-roll (head-banger) music. The reason people have this presumption about rap and rock-n-roll is because both genres reputations of having or using inappropriate lyrics. A lyric from the N.W.A album F**k The Police states “Mr. Officer, I want to see you layin‘ in a coffin, sir.” This statement, as well as music that refers to women as "bitches," "whores" and sex-dispensing "hoes"(Saunders B29)is considered to be "Gangsta rap". “Gangsta Rap” has been criticized and debated over for its graphic sexual content, violent imagery and misogyny. When rappers were asked why they refer to women as “bitches” and “hoes” their replies were simila

With both types of music one tends to hear profanity, artists who degrade women, and talk negatively about other people. When people listen to either type of music over a period of time, they usually get the feeling that they need to do what these inappropriate lyrics say or do. Saying music has the power to control human beings is rather extreme; that is like saying that we humans have no responsibility for our actions.

Music, in actuality, is a form of expression. Artists today are expressing themselves just as they did in the days when people did not say that music destroys the mind. It just so happens that today, there are more people that take offense to certain types of music, and this has become an issue. Someone should construct a survey of musicians and non-musicians. The survey could ask both groups the same question, "Does rap music and rock music destroy the brain?" The majority people who would answer the question affirmative would be non-musicians. The reason is that musicians tend to accept all music as music and nothing more. Non-musicians will tend to believe that music does kill the brain because they do not have the same outlook on music. If we all looked at music in that way, we would not have this problem.

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