What the Ears of the Adolescence Hear

Goth is a music genre and the crowd is named directly after the music the listen to. ” Music then categorizes adolescents into groups and cliques. Music even has an effect on discriminations of teens and feelings of aggression towards other teens. As Bob Greene points out in his essay “Adults only” censors put he words “Adult Language” on CD’s “as if they were something to strive for,” The word “adult” often connotates as the correct or the mature way to do something. Fist off, music often determines when an adolescent will go through adolescents. Marilyn Manson said himself “ I am not, nor have I ever been or ever will be a devil worshipper,” it’s that his lyrics often ridicules Christianity and to some that automatically makes him a servant of Satan.

Music is often used as a channel to express and enhance moods and emotional states. Adolescent fashion is often modeled after the artist and personalities that perform the music. An adolescent in a good mood listening to a happy song can have improve self esteem, outlook on life, tolerance of annoyances; an angry outraged adolescent listening to some destructive goth or heavy metal may feel the need to break something, hurt someone or even hurt him or herself. Most of these issues are seldom discussed in a high school class. Why spend five hours reading a book when the same emotional highs ad lows can be reached with a single song? Concerts are another way of getting away from the world. Humans are incident learning meaning most learning is done in a medium other than school. This is because they spend a lot of time with each other, riding in cars, hanging out at home, danceing and socializing together and if they all had different music taste there would be much to argue about. A mass place filled with other patrons of the same music. One common message is that how can America be the home of free religion and still subtly shuns those who aren’t Christian.