Studies have shown that music plays a role, when it comes to impacting our emotions and thoughts. Two men committed suicide in 1990 and both were fans of the band, Judas Priest. The families sued the band because they believed the band had led the men to commit suicide. They believed that Judas Priest used subliminal messaging with phrases like, "Do it." This occurrence is not unfamiliar. Many people blame heavy metal music for others committing suicide. Ozzy Osbourne has been blamed as well. Does music really influence our behavior? Does it just heighten our emotions? Does it not have an impact and it's just us?
Music can influence my thoughts or behavior. For example; I tend to speed when listening to Heaven & Hell by Sabbath. Or there are some 80's songs that bring my thoughts back to a specific place and or time. Now does music make us do bad things? Perhaps, like I said I am prone to speed when certain songs are playing... but do I think music makes people commit suicide or murder people?
I don't agree with blaming music for suicide or accusing it of subliminal messages. Music draws out emotion--that is just the nature of what music is. I do blame rap music for NOT be subliminal in the least and making it clear that a woman is a b###h and cops should die. There should be outrage over the destructiveness and the purposeful clarity of rap messages.
Indeed. There should be little doubt that rap is the real "music of the devil". Go to a rap concert; people shoot each other. Go to a metal concert, and besides that drunken jackass who goes to every concert, the people have respect for one another. Makes me wonder what these "evangelical Christians" are thinking.
Why do you assume that the families were Christians? Also, did you know that their is Christian rap music.
not music itself, but when music attached to a social movement, movie or commercials, videos it could for some people. As far as I know there is no suicide movement in Metal. The combo can also cause you dislike some music you might have enjoyed otherwise. Thumbs down to marketing. One of the reasons I avoid television. I don't want to think about specific people and their personal lives, some commercial or scene in a movie when I listen to anything. And I really don't want to hear music when I'm shopping! because its usually unbearable. I swear I am going to start wearing ear plugs.
Music does not influence me at all. I do relate to some. Seems on some of Social Distortion songs, Mike Ness was following me around to get inspiration for the music. Songs like Ball and Chain, Winners and Losers, Alone and Foresaken, 99 to Life, Bakersfield, Cant Take it With You, Dear Lover, I'm In Love with My Car, Moral Threat, Nickles and Dimes, Machine Gun Blues and on and on and on.
