JRHS Writing BLOG

Profane Music

There is substantial commotion going on at this point in time over profane music. Parents are worried about the swears and inappropriate messages blasting through their children’s headphones, and many are saying that it’s time to take a stand and fight profane music by banning it or severely handicapping its influence. What do I think about this issue?

Well, I think that there aren’t any more steps that can be taken that haven’t already. Any more filtering of such music would be unconstitutional. If parents would spend the time to make sure what they’re buying for their kids is appropriate for them, then there would be no problem – and record labels have made it fairly easy. There are stickers on the CDs of music ridden with curse words and the like warning parents of their profanity, and even radio stations play filtered music with curse words beeped or completely muted out.

While we shouldn’t be too quick to allow our culture to descend into vulgarity, it is vital that in America, artists are able to say what they want to say, so long as we don’t have to hear it if we don’t want to. No one is forcing profane music down our throats, despite its obvious existence – so I see no reason to hunt it down and prevent it from being released.

All ya gotta do it look at the Bill of Rights which mentions the freedom of speech, as long as it doesn’t harm others.  But it looks like music doesn’t count, we have done our best.  So i agree with you, watch what u listen to and what ur kids listen to.  It’s more the listeners fault than the artists.

I agree with what you say.  Us, the listeners should watch what we listen too, we just cannot blame it on the musicians.  We ourselves are responsible for what we listen to.

I am in total agreement with this. Yes some music may be bad, but does that mean that they have to watch all of it like it’s going to jump out and attack us! I can understand little kids but teen that are of age like 16 or 15 that’s fine; I wouldn’t worry about it, there are more teens than parents in this world so lets see who wins.