Month: February 2015

How exactly would you like your son or daughter to treat women in the future? The recognition of mysogynistic music is slowly but blatantly being looked up to by the youth of today. It’s even getting to the point where adults themselves are even promoting and lending support to the artists that are used to producing such music. I also strongly believe that if we carry on dragging the sexism based music to success, many women will also begin to feel like objects or the weaker gender.

To begin with, I would like to state that I don’t believe that the subject of this essay should be banned, but I do believe that it should have much more people having an insight on what damage it can have on the world in the long-run. Also, the fact that radio stations all over the world rely on sexual lyrics and misogyny to boost their public popularity is outrageous. I began to do a little bit of research, mainly scanning for statistics and facts that supported my statement and this is just one of the many: A 2007 study showed that exposure to rap music increases sexist attitudes towards women. I believe that this is a clear representation of how certain words repeated by popular musicians (mainly rappers) can be implemented into the mindset of young teenagers, and even young adults nowadays.

I also looked into a set of lyrics by the 13-time Grammy awarded rapper, Eminem, who is heavily known for his very ‘odd but amusing’ previous lyrics. The song was named ‘Kill You’ and a section of the lyrics caught my eye: ‘Slut, you think I won’t choke no whore, til the vocal chords don’t work in her throat no more’. Typically, I think we can all agree that this sort of language causes distress in the minds of a lot of listeners, but whilst that is one case, another is one of plenty children hearing this music and implementing it into how they think daily and how look at their peers around them. It may seem rather over-exaggerated and conspicuous, but when it comes to a situation where a child under the age of 10 begins to listen to this, they are subject to a mind of very sexually orientated thoughts, even though they are below the legal age. This is really what most of our children are beginning to think about nowadays, and parents are injudiciously looking over this.

Even though we mostly blame a lot of men for the use of misogyny in today’s music, we have to acknowledge that there are still some women (very famous ones at that) who publicize and push for more and more degrading music scenes, lyrics and lifestyles.

Subject to the last paragraph, a lot of controversy surrounded the recent release of the song ‘Anaconda’ by Nicki Minaj, an artist known for her odd dressing, and ‘talent’ in music, which I couldn’t agree with. The problem expressed by a lot of people was that the video, lyrics and the song cover really shouldn’t have been allowed on the TV, especially at daytime. The whole combination reeked of explicit video and lyric. It might as well have been classed as an adult film, with an unforgettable chorus to it. I think this should really be taken into a vast amount  of consideration because the fact that this type of music is played daily by radio shows, TV channels and kids just isn’t right and it should be stopped. Sure, people may literally get pleasure out of the rhythm and how the song goes, but it’s clearly a fact that the sexual nature of many songs like this really has an effect on people, and many of us are turning a blind eye to it.

Another point worth noting is the fact that this type of music has a massive impact on the youth of today. The subject of women has been sexualized by many and this has been a consequence of the music that is produced today. Teens today are used to the objectification of women, and it hasn’t become a rare thing now.

To counter this, I believe more focus should be put on the positive subjects of music, instead of glorifying the music that intentionally degrades males or females, whether it be in blatant or subliminal messages.

I was stuck. Stuck in something dark and had no space around me. No rush of wind hit my face which began to throw a chilling feeling over my body. As I attempted to get up, my head hit the hard object that was above my body. The only thing I had felt was the hardness of the material, as if it was pushing closer and closer to my body.

I was in a coffin. Somehow, just somehow, was stuck in a coffin with no thought of how I could have got here. Fear began to take over my body faster than it could to any other man. My natural instinct was to bang, bang the top until I felt a crack. So there I was, 7 feet under, banging as if I was a zombie coming back from the dead. For about 2 minutes I was risking my perfect smooth skin to get out of this scary place, I smacked and punched as hard as could until the tension of the wood began to give away sounds and noises of cracks being made. I felt sudden pieces of dirt rushing to my face, entering my nose and my mouth. The cracks began to widen as more dirt rushed through.

Eventually, I smashed the whole structure, not seeing anything but darkness. I quickly shut my eyes, knowing I was stuck in a bunch of dirt and gravel and began to dig up with the fingers that were not yet beginning to sting with splinters. The digging was not too long, about five minutes in, I had sighted the moonlight still in the darkened sky, which had seen no stars that nights. My head tilted down, and as I began to recognize my surroundings, I could hear the distant sounds of wolves, dogs, bears howling and growling, seeming as if they were coming towards me. The sheer fear I had in the coffin decided to come back to me. I felt so vulnerable, so alone. I began pulling my ripped converses through the heavy grass that surrounded me, and had eventually seen where all the sound had come from.

My mind was being tormented with. Definitely over 100 over-starved animals had been wandering around on a large hill, causing noises that would break the ear drums of an old man. I stood there, frozen, trying not to make a sound. I could swear to God that I weren’t on planet Earth. Nothing like this could ever happen on Earth. I could feel the hairs on the back of my neck standing, as if they had their own senses. Suddenly, I was creeping away, not knowing that the floors had many sticks disrupting the silence the animals had put up for a few minutes or so. As soon as I felt a little bit of safety, I and my stupid conscience decided to try and sprint away from this catastrophe. And then, only the slightest sound had attracted these beasts in front of me.

In the split of a second, I could see the fire in their eyes, walking, pacing, and running, towards me. A rush of fear went through my body as the savage beasts came towards me. Within the blink of an eye, my feet were stamping the ground faster than light itself, trying to get away from this. It was right at this moment, I wished I could have stayed below in the ground. Slowly, but easily seen, the animals had grown in pace towards me, I felt the need to just panic and give up sprinting, but I couldn’t, I valued my life too much to die this way. Around me was just more greenery and bushes, I could easily be seen from a mile away. There was a sheer uproar of growling and panting behind me.

So very quickly, I felt some sort of claw rip against my leg, and right there I fell onto one leg, with only two of those beasts walking slowing towards me, with the sight of hunger and desperation. I knew I was done for at this moment. They came so close to my arm, me trembling and trying to keep my eyes close. They were so hairy, to the point I couldn’t see the shape of their body.

A second later, the fiends closer to me. This was definitely the end to me. And then it happened. They began biting me, releasing tension and anger on me, my legs were being devoured even more than they were.

I was left unconscious, in a pool of my own skin and blood.