Lyrics Insite What?

It seems just as sure as tomorrow comes that the walls and boundaries of how freely and artist can express themselves through lyrics will keep getting pushed and shoved farther and farther, until anything goes rules and censors no longer exist. It’s a fact that the things that are accepted and tolerated as far as the music industries censor standards are not what they have been in the past. The things that artists wouldn’t dream about saying for the public to hear a few years ago are all very common now. And you don’t even need the CD; all you need is a radio.

However where is the line drawn now that cannot be crossed? When do we say when…? When music starts to take the blame as the driving force behind murder? Apparently not since that has already been the case in more than one instance, but why? Is music capable of driving someone to kill? Could the lyrics of a rock band or rap

Such controversial artists as Marilyn Manson and Eminem have come under fire more than once by figures such as Lieberman when their music was said to blame for such violent acts as the shootings at Columbine High School where Manson was reportedly said to be “top of the list” in the music the shooters listened to.

“An artist’s lyrics reflect violence and despair in their own imagination or in society…” The artists that write these lyrics that “cause hate crimes and cheapen the value of human life,” write about these things because they have already seen it going on in their lives or in other, they don’t write these things to move our youth to action, and incidentally this music and these lyrics that “show callous disregard for common ethics, and traditional ideals,” are what sell the most in this great nation, where all the things that these artists are talking about are so harshly frowned upon. So what does that say about the society of today’s “great nation?”

group really give a person all the elements needed to step over the edge, past the point of rational thinking and give total disregard

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