Face the Facts: Song Lyrics

People always ask why it is that music gets a share of the blame with everything that goes wrong in society. Violence, teenage pregnancy, gun crime, driving offences. Virtually every problem that faces the average young person today is remotely linked to the music he/she listens to.
“If music is the food of love, play on,” so said William Shakespeare, sometime in the 16/17th century. So, if this has been known for a few hundred years, why is it that there has only just been a reaction to the sexual content of some of the songs released today. Is it because the song writers are not in the same legendary bracket as the great William Shakespeare or is it because the society of those days faced less serious problems than we face today. Maybe it’s because the rate of pregnancies in the age range of people who listen to these songs with sexually charged lyrics is increasing by the day and the powers-that-be are looking for a way to look less guilty, thus blaming music.
Music in its truest form is influenced by what the musician or songwriter surrounds himself with and although music influences society as well, I’d much rather prefer to see it as a vicious cycle rather than a one way traffic. Most people would tell you that a man is not made by what goes into him, but by what comes out of him but I beg to differ. I would rather think that if what comes out of a man is a product of what goes into him, then what goes into him is creating the man or monster. The human brain is a complex design that even in our greatest wisdom, we will still fail to understand it fully. Research has shown that if a line is being said backwards, there is a possibility of the hearer reacting to what is being said, even without understanding what is being said to him. This happens because the left side of the human brain works with words and the right side with actions. Apparently, the left side of the brain can decode the words, send it to the right side and action will be taken. Makes you wonder how easy it would be if the words were said the right way round.
Sex is everywhere these days. Manufacturers are so desperate to sell their product that they go for anything everybody can associate with, sex being one of the few. Half naked women are used to cars while half naked men sell women’s perfume. The question this begs is that are we victims of society or victims of our own wrong doings? Are we victims of the ploys of the powers-that-be, who push all these products in our faces, and make them irresistible. Or are we victims of our lack of self control that generates an appetite for anything that glitters? Whichever way you look at it, we are in too deep and it will take another generation to right this wrong. We can only hope the generation after this will make things better and not follow the trend because if research serves me right, the human race has gradually been crawling into its own grave since it was created.