Comments | buffo_alto: Hrmmmmm...

buffo_alto

Hrmmmmm...

Aug 07, 2006 13:45

Here's me being surprised?

http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/parenting/08/07/sexlyrics.teens.ap/index.html

I have long said that shit.

-- W

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I listened to the Liebestod....is that why... leylagencer August 7 2006, 17:51:39 UTC

me soooo horny?

jnmadrigal August 7 2006, 19:05:34 UTC

Or maybe it's the other way around? Teenagers who are comfortable with sex are comfortable with music which talks about it explicitly?

leylagencer August 7 2006, 19:17:07 UTC

oooo i need me some of those teeeeeeeeenzzzzzzzzzzz.

alwaschoen August 7 2006, 20:42:39 UTC

It really seems to be a post hoc conclusion. Either the reporter's not reporting well, or the researchers are being sloppy.

buffo_alto August 7 2006, 20:56:55 UTC

I agree that -- scientifically speaking -- this is an absolutely retarded supposition... I doubt if it's even double blind, much less well controled. However, I still believe it's true.

Songs that repeat the lyrics "Smack the pussy up" over and over really don't make one want to read Shakespeare...

I think that rap and hip-hop culture have resulted in a large downward spiral in morality, tolerance, creative thought, cultural appreciation, and too many other things to count. I have no problem with tagging promiscuity onto the tail end of that list.

It's like saying that violent games and TV don't desensitize people towards violence. Which is bullshit.

Regardless of any of my beliefs, however, I will say I don't agree with restricting any of these mediums at all. I just think that people are fucking stupid.

-- W

leylagencer August 7 2006, 21:48:57 UTC

ENTARTETE KUNST!!!!!!!!!!!!! ENTARTETE MUSIK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

audnauseam August 8 2006, 00:02:40 UTC

Interesting that you point to hip-hop. When Frank Zappa was arguing that kids didn't even understand the lyrics, much less pay attention to them, hip-hop was still a really new art form. But now 15 years have passed and it's the most widespread music out there. Are hip-hop lyrics more prone to influence people because the lyrics are more prominent in hip-hop? Maybe, maybe not. I know I can't understand a goddamned word Busta Rhymes says, any more than I could understand Motley Crue.

When I was in jr high/high school I was totally into Guns N Roses. I knew all their songs, could sing along with the lyrics, etc. But I didn't realize until just the other day that I'd been parroting some really awful, hateful stuff. Consider the song "One in a Million"

Immigrants and faggots
Don't make no sense to me
They come to our country
And think they do as they please
Like start some mini-Iran
Or spread some fucking disease
They talk so many goddammed ways
It's all Greek to meNow, that's really awful, terrible, hateful stuff. I heard it ( ... )

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