“Music is well-known to connect deeply with adolescents and to influence identity development, perhaps more than any other entertainment medium,” says Tara Parker-Pope of the New York Times Health. According to Tara, nine out of ten teen adolescents have music players which play key factors of influence in violence and abuse. She also claims that one in three popular songs contain explicit material of sexual content and use of drugs and alcohol. Her research has shown that rap music is the leading genre containing 77 percent of such material. The average teen listens to 16 hours of music each week compared with an average 4 hours a week of television. In addition, teenagers are exposed more to what they hear on music players and radio than what they see on television.
I believe that Tara's statistics are correct and that music plays a key role in adolescent teens. As a teenager I find it very common for the explicit music that we listen to today to influence our actions in society. For instance, if a song's message is to kill then the song's listener's obtain a perception that they can kill as like the artist they are listening to.
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/05/under-the-influence-ofmusic/
You are such a good writer, Donovan. All you are lacking on this is a proper MLA citation and you didn't capitalize one i. Good work.
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