By Brittany Nielsen Posted June 2, 2010
In today’s society, there are many songs that are dirty and have a lot of violence. When listening to a song people don’t really pay attention to the lyrics, they just listen to the beat.
When you are rocking out in your room or watching music videos on MTV, VH1 or FUSE your parents might hear the lyrics to songs like “Take it off” by Ke$ha or an Eminem song. They tend to get a little on the offensive side about what kind of songs our generation is listening to.
Parents talk about how blunt the songs are and how they are so vulgar and violent. In their day they didn’t listen to anything like that. A lot of music today is about partying and illegal activity, but is it so different from other eras?
When you are with your parents you should do the same thing while listening to their kind of music. Pay closer attention to the lyrics of a song and you come to the conclusion that you shouldn’t be the only one getting yelled at for listening to vulgar songs. The songs your parents listen to have the same type of content as songs today. Songs from back in the day just came up with clever names for things.
If you have ever listened to “Tube Snake Boogie” by ZZ Top you can figure out what they are talking about. Different Poison songs are just as bad with dirty suggestions such as “Talk Dirty to Me” or “Sexual Thang”. “Pour Some Sugar on Me” is another example of 80’s music that beats around the bush.
So the next time you are listening to music and your parents criticize you for thinking it is inappropriate, you should ask them to listen to the lyrics of one of their songs and see what happens, they may be surprised to find some similarities.
