Rosen Response

Hello Mr.s Rosen I can see that you are writing a letter on music’s effects towards violence. Now I can agree with you that violence is bread by influences but some of the facts are true. In my findings as well as yours Music can be a negative influence to a mass majority of people, but music can also have a positive influence as well or the stall fact that music does not influence or bribe anybody. I myself find it easy to sometimes blame music for sending a corrupt message to the kids or weak minded people who are influenced by it. As you have stated music has served as an outlet for people to be influenced especially young people. Younger people are more influenced by lyrics and music for the burning desire to fit in. Some lyrics do inflect violence to others or more so degrade people by race, religion or different social group. This is a case seen a lot in the gangster rap genre. Most musicians today send a degraded message and most the kids who are influenced are the ones who are insecure and afraid. But the final verdict of influence boils down to the parents of the Kids if the parents are weak than the kids have no fiber to resist any kind of evil in their lives leading them to fall short at every turn. Blaming music is an easir alternative than to say blame bad parenting or teaching because if a kid is taught right then he can just ignore the stupid lyrics and messages vs. the person who has no guidance what so ever. People should take the ratings into consideration the ratings where created to keep parents informed on what their children where listeing to. I wouldn’t want my kids listing to some song just talk about milkshakes and lil kim ,.. I don’t know who sings that song , but my point being is that people should take responsibility in to their own hands because with that kids can be directed to a better path. When music is blamed all the time for the misfourtains of a nation or people I either blame the guardians, blame the teachers , blame the kids for not using common sense or just blame my self because you cant be that stupid to take in lyrics to either cause harm to your self or another person. When the music companies come to together to try to bring a better massage its good because it shows that the companies are starting to give a care about the media that they feed , The people feed of the media and with that good media could bring good results but its ultimately up to the person not the medium that makes the difference for the people. So yes I do think that blaming music for the ultimate problems in society is very immature, very rude, crude and abusive behavior because it lacks concentration on the main focus like friends and family.