Violence and Explicit Language in Music Lyrics and on Tv

Sociology

14 April 2013

Violence and explicit Language in Music Lyrics and on TV

Watching violent movies or listening to music containing explicit language can affect our judgment and decisions we make every day. Excessive time spent in front of the television watching violent programs can cause violence in our homes, schools, work, etc., to increase over time.

Television is one of the effective media used to promote all kinds of products whether good or bad. Unsupervised television watching in children can lead to early exposure to things they may not understand or may misinterpret. Television advertisements can influence children of all ages to resort to improper measures. Commercials about fast foods, cold drinks, alcohol, containing violence, etc., are not good for children’s health, and are bound to leave an impact on the ones watching them.

In my opinion, the TV and movie entertainment industry should control the amount of crude or foul language in their programs. People listen to so much music, which has violent lyrics. They listen to pop, rap, and heavy metallic music, and many of these songs have violent lyrics. Young people who listen to this kind of music hear bad words, and this affects their own language and habits. Many young people who listen to these songs think that it is good to use the bad words and want to show off to other people by using them. This kind of violent music can make some young people behave aggressively in society. Recently, for example in some schools, some young people killed their classmates. Police later found out they used to listen to music with violent lyrics.

There are many questions about who is to blame for the problems of violence that exist in our world. Many people think that if there were no violence on television, the world could be less violent. I think the real problem is that children do not know exactly how to deal with that violence. They try to imitate the behavior they see because they think that...