cause of it's dangerous lyrics. One part of this testimony states:
To date , no studies have documented a cause-and-effect relationship
between sexually explicitor violent lyrics and adverse behavioral effects,
i.e., I'll listen to a song about killing someone and therefore I go out and
kill. But we can all acknowledge the overall effect music has on people,
including adolescents and children. Otherwise , we wouldn't listen to it...
and teenagers become absorbed in songs they believe help better define
them during this rocky transition into adulthood.(Palumbo)
If teens are exposed to music daily the more they accept the devastating implications in the
music as if it was their lunch or daily schooling. The only way to stop teens from listening would
be to totally get rid of the heavy metal genre itself or stop the use of the violent and suicide
implicating lyrics in the music. Teens are vulnerable to many things especially music. According
to the American Academy of Pediatrics, they conducted a study which found that teens on
average listen to 40 hours of music per week(Palumbo). That is 7 and one half hours more
than an average school week. It sounds like teens are getting more from music than they are from
their teachers they see 5 out of 7 days per week. This music can affect their school life and affect
the way they think and act while in and around school.
Heavy metal can lead to violence and suicide in teens from listening to the music they do.
One study done by David Merrell from Suffolk,Virginia, somewhat proves heavy metal is bad
for teens. However, his study was done on 72 male laboratory mice. He used 3 groups of 24
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