(Impact of Music Lyrics, 1) This is an issue for parents and pediatricians. During the past four decades, rock music has become extremely explicit particularly to drugs, sex and violence. Recently Heavy metal and "Gangsta Rap" Have been the two types of music to come under fire. (Impact of Music Lyrics, 1) Establishing a relationship between a particular type of music and behavior associated with that music genre is extremely difficult. (Power of Music, 1) .
Much of the work exploring the effects on behavior of rap music has been experimental and undertaken in artificial circumstances. (Power of Music, 1) Some of the research has been demonstrated changes in attitudes towards violence and women following exposure to particular types of rap. (Power of Music, 1) With this you can not incorporate rap for being the reason for people doing bad things in real life situations. Fear of rap and its messages may relate more to fears of the black community than the actual nature of the lyrics. (Power of music, 1) There still are a lot of positive messages coming from rap. It is just so hard to see these positive messages with all the bad ones out there. .
Heavy Metal Music is the other type of music under fire. People associate Heavy Metal music with suicidal thoughts, anger, and violence towards women. .
(Power of Music, 1) The direct affects of listening to particular types of music depend upon a range of factors. Listening to any kind of music is unlikely to promote violence and aggregation, but in those already predisposed to violence, holding views expressed in music it may offer some support for particular actions. (Power of Music, 2) In one study done by Ballard and Coates (1995) Heavy Metal music was not linked to the actions of people. (Effects of Metal on College Students, 2) This study was done on college students and they were given a series of tests after listening to 3 Metal songs. Then it was done Again after three rap songs.
