Blaming Music

i think they just want someone to blame. its totaly stupid...... i hate ppl at my skool calling MCR emo i get up them so bad bcz they r not emo no no no

I think that music could, to an extent, be blamed for some of the problems.
It is a powerful tool.
It can completely change who you are, for the better or worse.

this is crap.

apparently people in my homestate of hicksville USA think that Warped Tour and many other tours are having a bad influence on todays kids.
so what do they do?
get rid of Warped. yeah. it has came here numerous times and now they just drop it. i mean seriously.

yet KORN was here not to long ago.

hmm...warped or korn? lets choose the most violent and blame it on warped tour!

YAY SCAPEGOAT!

^ that sucks, well i think music like this is just frowned apon, because most people think it serves no propose but gets you depressed

I think that music has effects on people's lives, but it cant MAKE you do anything! Thats just me tho.

Audrey Hepburn.:

I think that music could, to an extent, be blamed for some of the problems.
It is a powerful tool.
It can completely change who you are, for the better or worse.

I think that music can be blamed, of course it can. But like Audrey said, only to an extent. It's like violence on TV. You see it, or in this case hear it, and it gets in your head. When you're upset, don't you listen to angrier music then you would if you're feeling good about life?
This isn't to say that music causes murder, it's just to say that there is definitly an impact.

Musiccould be blammed
But the Internet and T.v are Making Some Parents Freak out way too much.
Music changes us.In Some Way
But Is it Always For the Worst?

xXTear SnatchersXx:

Musiccould be blammed
But the Internet and T.v are Making Some Parents Freak out way too much.
Music changes us.In Some Way
But Is it Always For the Worst?

I totally agree. but also, if the music is to blame, its the parents fault for letting there young one listen to that music.

^Yeah i know how that feels. My mom and dad think i'm gonna go all wierd coz i listen to MCR all the time. It drives me mad!
People are just finding something or someone to blame. What you see on t.v. has more of an affect because you can see it. I don't think music can be blamed because in many peoples cases it's their reason for living, keeps them going when they get up in morning knowing they have something that will always be there for them...

Music should NOT be blamed for problems like that. People who blame and counter music are stupid. Music is a really powerful tool, yes, but
it is not to be blamed. Of course, music can prove to be rebellious, but it doesn't fully influence a person. In the end, it's still the person's choice on what
to do and what's his decision.

So, generally, music cannot be blamed.

spuddy:

you hear of parents blaming music for their childs actions all the time.
eg marilyn manson was blamed for drugs
eminem was blamed for young people getting guns
ozzy osbourne (and lots of others) blamed for young people committing suicide.


what are you opinions on this?

i think its balls



lmaoo

Blaming music is a way to make the parents feel like they aren't to blame, when chances are they are, one way or another. Obviously if music really was going to drive a kid to do something, they should have gotten the kid help. I think that almost 100% it's the parents.
I made good choices off music. It was a therapy for me, especially MCR, when i was extremely depressed and suicidal.

Seriously? Parents, no matter what you say, at one point or another, are going t blame others before themselves. If I just happened to listen the MCR's song "Teenagers" before I shot up a school, my parents are going to blame MCR, no matter what my suicide letter says. I know this only because it happened before. When I tried to commit suicide, I was listening to a song by an artist that I'm not going to say at the moment. And of course, right after I got saved (dammit) my parents took that music away from me. Tld me I needed to go to church more often. Now, again, parents are going to think what they want until the truth is presented to them in a way that they cannot hide from it.

Yara; wtf...:

I honestly think that in 9/10 cases, the parents are to blame.

If you raise your kid right, he/she will know better than to do drugs, kill people or commit suicide.

I completely agree with that. I think they are just pushing their responsibility away and blaming there mistakes on music.

I think if a parent blames music for a childs actions is just plan stupid. Because the music has nothing to do with a childs actions. If it's the music then why do the parents buy the cd in the first place??? And sometimes it's the parents actions that affect the child's action's. Plus the people who write the music arent trying to cause problem's by changing how the child act's they might be trying to make a point.

It all depends on how you interpret the music realy, i mean different people can interpret a song completely differently. The singers and writers of the songs could have written it innocently and then someone listenning could have listened to it, and gotten ideas.

Mind you i think that people would have had to have been a bit messed up before they listened to the song for it to have that much of a bad reaction for the person.

Although i can see why some songs can innfluence people.

music is very powerful, it has a huge impact in our lives.

parents blame music because they can't blame anything else. maybe the parents don't want to accept the fact that they are one of the strongest reasons why their children are commiting suicide, rebellion, taking drugs etc...

also, i think our parents don't understand music the way we understand it...