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- AdamNeverKnows
Okay so my mother is obsessed with restraining and restricting me in every last way possible... Her latest attack is on music. She says everything I listen to is about rape, violence, drugs, murder and all the rest. My collection mainly consists of Feeder, Red Hot Chili Peppers, My Chemical Romance (Mostly the album Danger Days), Green Day, 30 Seconds To Mars, Biffy Clyro, Kings of Leon, AC/DC, Foo Fighters, Snow Patrol, Imagine Dragons, Muse... You get the idea.
I concede that there is bad language in some songs by these bands, and sometimes some of those subject matters come up, Green Day in particular. But consider this... Down the hallway my step brother plays 50 Cent, Eminem, Dre, Diddy, Tupac, Lil Wayne and all the rap alongside drum and bass at full volume... It's always on so loud. I don't even play my music aloud, always in the headphones with the volume low. I'm not saying the stereotypical rap stuff but his collection has a shedload of swearing, much more than my own.
Yet, his collection is not at threat and mine is? And she likes Feeder and pretty much everything I like? She claims the music I listen to is going to send me down the wrong path and I just don't see it... She is one to talk, dropped out of school at 14 and one year later I was born... And that's only the beginning of what I could tell you.
The point is Feeder can probably claim a half of all the music I own, and it's helped me through really rough patches in life... Is there really a reason a fifteen year old can't listen to Feeder? In my eyes most stuff on mainstream radio has a worse message and more explicit lyrical content? And this hasn't been an issue the last few years and my taste hasn't altered... She's only just started on it.
She seems to think if I hear the word gun I'll go about shooting people and stuff, seems odd.
How do you weigh in on it?
I concede that there is bad language in some songs by these bands, and sometimes some of those subject matters come up, Green Day in particular. But consider this... Down the hallway my step brother plays 50 Cent, Eminem, Dre, Diddy, Tupac, Lil Wayne and all the rap alongside drum and bass at full volume... It's always on so loud. I don't even play my music aloud, always in the headphones with the volume low. I'm not saying the stereotypical rap stuff but his collection has a shedload of swearing, much more than my own.
Yet, his collection is not at threat and mine is? And she likes Feeder and pretty much everything I like? She claims the music I listen to is going to send me down the wrong path and I just don't see it... She is one to talk, dropped out of school at 14 and one year later I was born... And that's only the beginning of what I could tell you.
The point is Feeder can probably claim a half of all the music I own, and it's helped me through really rough patches in life... Is there really a reason a fifteen year old can't listen to Feeder? In my eyes most stuff on mainstream radio has a worse message and more explicit lyrical content? And this hasn't been an issue the last few years and my taste hasn't altered... She's only just started on it.
She seems to think if I hear the word gun I'll go about shooting people and stuff, seems odd.
How do you weigh in on it?