A: Popular music today, I think, can relate to just about any of the topics listed above. Typically though, it's the same genre of music that talks about the same things. For example in today's popular hip-hop songs, you hear about violence along with some songs talking about women and their "sexiness". While an example of the "typical" country song today usually talks about a man catching a glimpse of a women and then live happily ever after. I think that popular music, especially rap music, has had an effect on people (or mostly on teens). I think that if they hear a singer bragging about how many guns they have or how many people they beat up they think it's okay for them to do all those things as well. Below are some lyrics from the the song "Steelworker" by Big Black:
The only good policeman is a dead one
The only good laws aren't enforced
I've never hung a darkie, even a big one
I've never seen an Indian on a horse
And I live like this 'cause I like it
And seen too much to pretend
You can't ignore the beauty in the things that you love
Like you can't stand the hatred and the lies
Have you always hunted with your hands?
Can you show me what you've done?
Have you always hunted with your hands?
If you catch it, can you kill it?
You don't understand, see you don't understand
See, I'm like a murderer, see, I'm like a murderer
And I could rip you limb from limb
And I could rip you limb from limb
Great big thing crawlin' all over me
Great big thing crawlin' all over me
See, I'm like a murderer, I kill what I eat.
Now to me, those lyrics are down right disturbing. But, maybe the country song "Farmer's Daughter" by Rodney Atkins makes up for it?? Probably not..
I was haulin hay, I was feedin the hogs
and that summer sun had me sweatin like a dog
So I cooled off in the creek
then it was back to work in the daggum heat
I was cussin' out loud, thinkin bout quitin'
Lookin' back now I'm sure glad I didn't
Cuz just when I thought it couldn't get no hotter
I caught glimpse of the farmer's daughter
She was just gettin' home from Panama city
she was all tanned up and my kinda pretty
When her eyes met mine
I was thinkin that I would sure love my job
as the days got shorter our talks got longer
the kisses got sweeter and the feelings got stronger
so we'd hop in the truck and get all tagled up
every chance we got
we were down by the river all night long
when the sun came up I was sneakin' her home
and draggin my butt to work
with the smell of her perfume on my shirt
I'd be on the tractor she'd be on my mind
with that sun beatin' down on this back of mine
Just when I thought it couldnt get no hotter
I fell in love with the farmer's daughter
we got married last spring
Woah and there ain't no better life for me
There are plenty of country songs that focus on sexuality, though. Some are quite explicit.
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