Music: Good or Bad? You Decide

Music. Wow! This is a tough subject, because it’s such a huge part of our culture. Personally I absolutely love music especially if it has a good dance beat. This may be hard for you young people to believe, but I love rap. Yep! you read it right, a 56 year old white man that loves rap. Go figure. I have to admit sometimes I feel like an outcast because there aren’t to many people my age who do.

However when it comes to music what I have a hard time with from a Christian standpoint are the lyrics. Let’s start with rap considering it’s probably the most contraversial form of music, and one of the most popular among teens.

What I hate about a lot of rap are the words. Talking about killing people, raping women, other types of violence, drugs, alcohol, sex, and the list goes on. No wonder their are more violent deaths associated with rap than any other form of music, and for what. We hear enough about these things every day on radio, TV, in our newspapers. I don’t want to hear about it in the music I listen to. Why do you?

Rappers rap about your past, but how about ending the song with what you did to change your lives for the better, or has their lives even changed at all except for having more money to spend on more guns, more drugs, more alcohol, and more women.

What about good old rock and roll, is that any better than rap? I don’t think so. What we get from it are the famous words, sex, drugs, and rock and roll. Why? Because that’s what so much of it promotes. How positive is that. And country western isn’t innocent either. So many country singers sing about losing there woman or man. People. If you treat your men and women right, maybe the’ll stick around.

Speaking of women. How about many of the music videos. I’m telling you MTV and VH1, (CMT, you’re getting close) should both be at the very least R rated. Any parent who allows their kids to watch either should have their heads examined. Talk about promoting women as nothing more than sex objects, who allow themselves to be in these videos because they have no self respect or self esteem. Then there’s the reality shows on both channels. Don’t we humans deal with enough drama in our own lives with out having to watch such junk on TV. Or do people who watch them do so so they can feel better about their own pathetic lives by watching someone elses pathetic life. Hey! If this is true you can pretty much bet this is why your life is so pathetic.