Our Youth have Questionable Role Models from the Music Indusry

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Many popular music artists today are looked up to for their songs, style, and personality. People in today’s society can be easily influenced and many have role models they look up to and aspire to be. A role model has qualities that affect young kids and also adults that can lead to either positive or negative influences. This can be somewhat of a dangerous thing considering the role model the people choose. While this can be something innocent, like singing along to songs or dressing with a certain style, it can also be something negative, like bad behavior, drug, abuse, and violence. Parts of society, mostly fan bases, condone all types of behavior by their favorite artists, no matter good or bad. This has a potential bad affect on people.
Most young kids have their favorite music artists they look up to, but some of their role models have changed their style significantly without losing fans. For example Miley Cyrus used to have a television show named “Hannah Montana” on Disney Channel. She sang nice songs and had fun with her friends on the show and also had concerts in real life that many young girls would go to. Miley Cyrus and her alter ego Hannah Montana had a no sort of negative influence on these young girls. Many of her songs were positively oriented about life lessons and how you learn from them. Now all of a sudden Miley Cyrus changed her style completely, shaving part of her head and wearing racy clothing. Her new songs are more about drinking, partying, and rebelling against the society. Not only does this display bad behavior, but this shows her young fans that acting like this is okay. Many of her younger fans still look up to her, leading them to poor life decisions like Cyrus herself, acting like ...

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...om artists can also get extreme like how the rap artist Rick Ross says “Put Molly all in her champagne, she ain’t even know it. I took her home and enjoyed that, she ain’t even know it.” in the song “U.O.E.N.O” by Rocko. But it’s not like the artists are just saying these lyrics for themselves. They know the fans are using drugs and alcohol, too, relating to their music. In Miami at a concert, Madonna asked the crowd, “How many of the people in the crowd have seen Molly?” Everyone knows she is not talking about a person considering she named her latest album “MDNA” after the empathogenic drug MDMA. The use of these drugs has become too common and the artists are not helping putting a stop to it.
Much of the actions artists are exploited through the media. Popular tabloids, magazines, and blogs thrive off of the dramatic and shocking things these musicians do.

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