It really hurts me to see people like britney spears and christina, and rappers really go to the extreme to get fans, when all they are doing is giving a bad name to america. Some singers are really note worthy but others have lyrics not appropriate for younger children but yet still kids can recite all these horrible words. I dont think this new generation of music is the best thing, should we improve on our role models, or should we let people do as they like"?

don't you DARE insult punk ok! That music has helped me through some difficult times, when i was really depressed. And slipknot isn't punk!

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What about elvis? He was extreme and I doubt you give a crap about thrusting your hips. What about the beatles? Real badboys of their time. People thought jazz was to controversial as well. What im getting at is music has and always will have a rebelious nature, it isnt corrupting or destroying anything.

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Yeah, but think, that was then, this is now. Before they never had to deal with the kind of music now. They never had to protect their children from hearing horrible stuff on the radio. Before the radion was a family friend. Now, parents are trying to get their children away from the monstrosity that is feeding bad ideas to their children.

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could we all just get it over with already and resurrect Hitler?? Everyone wants rights, yet the rights they want is the right to take someone elses right!! GET OFF OF IT!!! If you don't like it, don't listen, you don't like half naked girls/guys....don't look!!! It isn't killing you...please for the sake of humankind...live and let live. When these people physically assault you, I'll be the first one to defend you...otherwise....hush

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I totally disagree. Yeah, maybe it's okay for you to look at porn, and listen to people cuss while on the radio. But what about the little children today. Most of them look up at you and think that they wanna be someone cool someday, just like you. Do you want them to be like you? Taking drugs, looking at porn, listen to rap that has very unappropriate language for a four year old. It's easier for little children these days to get exposed to these things. The music and pictures show that it's fine to see these things. Pretty soon they will start cussing at elder people. Pretty soon they lose all respect for themselves and lose all responsibility over their lives. This has happened to many kids who are just becoming teenagers. More teenage girls are getting pregnant at a young age. More teenagers are taking drugs. All because they were influenced by the music and the pictures. What will our future be like? If this keeps going on, then the future Earth would become a wasteland with stoned peolple walking around, and crimes being committed left and right. The world wouldn't be safe then.

"But rap punk are, without a doubt, the music that is the worst for young children. Children hear things on the radio and follow it, thinking that these people must be telling the truth and that drugs and sex really are good for you and so on. My older brother has this problem, though he's firmly fixed in the idea that he is 'original' for being a punk. He won't admit that he has a serious drug problem, and it all started with his Slipknot CD that he got last year."

slipknot= nu-metal. I repeat: nu-metal. Not punk...please don't ever say that again. Most good punk (and ska, since now punk is heavily mixed with it) has a great message. Operation Ivy songs were about unity, respect, and making a difference for the better. Slapstick has strong anti-rascist and anti-violent lyrics. Rancid has a lot of political songs, as does NOFX. While a lot of punk bands do sing about drinking, if someone is so impressionable that a couple of song lyrics about being drunk causes them to become alcoholic then they had a problem to begin with. But overall, many punk bands (especially Operation Ivy) had lyrics that were against violence, drugs, and casual sex.

yea music now can be bad for kids today but so was most music all through the history of the world. but think about the song straight edge from minor threat they were against drinking smoking and casual sex, they had better things to do. they were good role models. and good charlotte telling kids to hold on.. life'll get hard but then it'll get better. so there are some positive influences one kids and negative one such as speares who wears basically bras for shows and her lyrics are very sexual... and kids shouldnt hear that but we cant hide them from the truthes of the world. it gives them a perspective of the goods and bads of life.

What about elvis? He was extreme and I doubt you give a crap about thrusting your hips. What about the beatles? Real badboys of their time. People thought jazz was to controversial as well. What im getting at is music has and always will have a rebelious nature, it isnt corrupting or destroying anything.

slipknot is punk now....I'm going to jump off a bridge...

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punk are, without a doubt, the music that is the worst for young children. Children hear things on the radio and follow it, thinking that these people must be telling the truth and that drugs and sex really are good for you and so on.

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When I got into Punk and Hardcore I had a serious problem with drugs, I hated life and I hated people. Everything for me was useless, life was a waste. Soon I learned there were people like me, who felt like me, who wanted to escape from the BS they grew up in. If it wasn't for the music and the people I met along the way...I can most certainly assure you I would not be here right now. And I can't even tell you the amount of good things we did, yeah we did bad, but don't we all. That whole comment is against everything I ever knew.

And if you are talking about crap on the radio...that's not punk, it's a bunch of salesmen with a gimmick, not a positive movement...sorry.
And yeah that is what punk is and was, a movement, not some trendy clothes you got at Hot Topic...a movement, not some crap on the radio. Most of the kids I knew were out fighting racism, animal abuse or whatever crap was cool to be against...but at least they were doing something!

could we all just get it over with already and resurrect Hitler?? Everyone wants rights, yet the rights they want is the right to take someone elses right!! GET OFF OF IT!!! If you don't like it, don't listen, you don't like half naked girls/guys....don't look!!! It isn't killing you...please for the sake of humankind...live and let live. When these people physically assault you, I'll be the first one to defend you...otherwise....hush

the new generation of music is making money off of people who don't know any better. If kids have common sense then it shouldn't hurt 'em a bit.

everything is dirty. spongebob is dirty... kylie minogue has dirty lyrics for crissake. kids aren't stupid, there is no reason to hide them from the real world... if your are honest with them and let them know right off how to deal with it then there will be less shock later in life and they wont be so daft and sheltered. the world is an ugly place and beleive it or not, kids live in it too.

Like I said, they arnt my rolemodels , but they are for a lot of children.

I think a lot of the singers out there today are horrible rolemodles, but collielvr101 has a point. singers don't have to be our rolemodels. I personally don't have any rolemodels that are singers. My rolemodels are all my family, friends, and some actors that I think are really nice people.

I do agree that some singers are going to the extreme for their misuc, and that some music has a megative impact on kids our age, and people are wrong to pin it all on rap, because artists such as Brittney Spears and Christina, and even Justin Timberlake, make songs that serve an excellent purpose of 'make-out songs'.

But rap punk are, without a doubt, the music that is the worst for young children. Children hear things on the radio and follow it, thinking that these people must be telling the truth and that drugs and sex really are good for you and so on. My older brother has this problem, though he's firmly fixed in the idea that he is 'original' for being a punk. He won't admit that he has a serious drug problem, and it all started with his Slipknot CD that he got last year.

So you might call my grudge against punk and rap and the s*** Mike listens to now a personal one, but that doesn't make my feelings any less directed toward the younger generation. Basically I think that that music is horrible, and that it, and pop, have a VERY negative impact on today's children.

who says that these singers have to be our role models? no offense, but my role models have always been family and friends, not singers. You like what they sing, dance, etc. That should not make them your role model. And, parents need to engrain the importance of this more into children's heads (like how mine sort of had).

let the singers keep performing what they do, act how they act...they're the ones that are truly making themselves look like idiots! this is america, right? but choose your role models wisely and remember a little modesty, too.