Rock
During the Doors concert in Miami, in 1969, lead singer Jim Morrison,"did lewdly and lasciviously expose his penis and shake it. . ." (Rosen et al.90). Today, Billy Joe Armstrong, lead singer of Green Day, bares all at hisconcert in Philadelphia (Bernstein 95). The eccentric Courtney Love will ripoff her bra for the audience to marvel and glorify at her action (Bernstein 95).She acts in such a fashion because she is insane and wants to prove it to theworld, where as Billy Joe just performs naked for the shock value and the loveof hearing tabloids and gossip. Both performers of past and present conductedstrange acts on stage for the shock value and attention, but with performers ofold, it reflected their life and what they were really like. Today's performers,however, do not act like that in real life, for the most part. Today,performers take on challenges, like the dare of a child. . . "Betcha won't doit!" These rock performers cannot turn down a dare or back away from even theslightest bit of public notoriety. By listening to one of their"questionable" albums, it is easily noticeable how they thrive off of it. Allof these performers do have one thing in common, at one time or another,
Some options for the awareness of music and its content have been and couldpossibly be made public, making censorship unnecessary. He served nearly threeyears in jail for armed robbery in the mid seventies (Leland 64). His top hits, "Deep Cover," main chorus read, " It's 1-8-7on an undercover cop": 187 is Los Angeles cop talk and rap slang for homicide. The Reverend Calvin Butts, a highprofile minister of the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, has mounted acrusade against "offending" (rap) music (Leland 64). Listen to my music and get on another vibe. In addition, there are the songs which contain references to sex crimes mainlyagainst women. He's not trying to be something he ain't. Most men who hear this misogamist musicdo not go out and commit crimes against women. Obviously, some of them actually do care abouttheir roots and the people that helped them get where they are today; and theyare not all corrupt. The songs usually consist of either rape, incest, orbondage. Also, in Cleveland, a frustrated Courtney Love tore off her bra and screamed,"Now you know how I get all the guys," (Bernstein 95). Even Stanley Gortikov, president of theRecording Industry Association of America (RIAA), claims he has never heard ofor heard an example of these "hidden backwards messages" in all of his twenty-five years in the business (Zucchino 3). For that, FrankZappa, Dee Strider (lead singer of Twisted Sister), and Danny Goldberg ( a rockmanager and lyric libertarian), accused Gortikov of "caving in" to PMRC(Zucchino 8).
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