by MetalDragon

Created on: April 27, 2009

Should the music industry do anything to improve the moral content of the music that they are promoting? No, simply stated, they shouldn't. They should leave the music alone. The music that is written is not that of the companies, it is that of the musicians and song writers. These people use the music as a form of release and to get their opinion out into their mass of fans to try and get their point across to people. The music that they write also has an effect on people. Some people will hear and go, "Oh, that's not right" or "They shouldn't have said that," but others will hear and go, "Wow, that's really heartfelt and I agree with them." The last group of people get just as much of a release when they hear this and it helps them to get some things off of their chest. It always helps to know that someone else is feeling the same way that you do.

If you were to censor the artists from saying what they believe then what does music become? It becomes another cookie cut from the same shape that the rest of the world has tried to create. Music is not just another thing that is to be feared and to try and mould to fit family values and morals. The truth is that there is already music that fits the standards for this and the rest of the types of music are up to the listener to decide what to do with it.

The reason, I think, that people have made this an issue is because they have looked too far into the lyrics of a song that they did not like to begin with or they have just looked for another scapegoat to blame their own problems (that they usually have created themselves) on. My advice to these people is to just leave what you don't like alone and to stop trying to put the blame on things that are just coincidences and to stop being lazy and looking for scapegoats when you can be solving the problems.

The biggest thing that I'm against in this title is that if you censor these artists, where did the freedom of speech go? If you limit what they can say and what they can talk about, aren't you restricting their rights? Plus, they already put stickers on the albums to warn people about the lyrics. So, in fact, it's your own fault if you don't like what you are hearing because you were warned. Or maybe you should have more control in your child's way of getting a hold of music (or just more control over your child in general).

So, overall I think that the music industry is doing what they should be doing by putting the advisory stickers on albums and that they shouldn't be doing anything more to control the lyrics of songs. Parents and people who don't like certain things should just learn to find ways around the lyrics. Teach your kids that the lyrics aren't okay and if you don't like something, just leave it alone!

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