Defining Music!

Music ~ vocal or instrumental sounds (or both) combined in such a way as to produce beauty of form, harmony, and expression of emotion.

  Music is my therapy. Like when I'm down, and i feel like nobody cares to listen..... I write; our i will blast my radio with a song that plays how i feel.

  A lot of people say that this generation of musicians are bad influences on my (our) generation. I don't believe that. But what i do believe is music is a form of expression. The songs are up for interpretation, just as is any other form of art. Obviously a 6 year old shouldn't be listening to a song that says the F word multiple times, but the type of music a person and/or child listens to does not define, let alone make excuse, for why they act the way they do. I have been listening to all different types of music, including rap and pop, since I was very young.

  Being an adult now, I can say that music has had nothing but a positive impact on me. Just because someone listens to rap music doesn't mean they're going to be a "gangster" and just because someone listens to pop music doesn't mean they are going to be promiscuous. It is ultimately up to a parent and the environment a child grows up in what the child grows up to think is okay. I grew up listening to rap music, and i know i am not a bitch, hoe, or slut because my momma raised a lady with manners, and respect for herself. Only someone who has grown up without a positive self-image will be so easily influenced by such music.

This is my opinion! Feel free to tell me yours! What impact does music have on you're life? Do you believe that music can influence a child behavior, or life?