JRHS Writing BLOG

Wednesday, November 07, 2007

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.