Under_The_Influence

Under The Influence Imagine a world in which all individuals could decipher right from wrong and good from bad. If this were feasible, we would live in a sanctuary free from the horrors of crime, death, and destruction. In this ‘perfect world’ we would no longer have to worry about corruption and influence from outside forces, and all new outside information from movies, magazines, and music would portray positive messages. However, being intelligent citizens, we recognize no matter how many laws are passed or how severe the punishments are, evil, hatred, and poor judgment regarding the health of one’s body will always exist. Because we do not live in a perfect society free of destructive messages, we are subjected to understand and to interpret external messages individually. Today, when listening to musicians, people have to process the artist’s message and draw their own conclusions; however, this was not required at the conception of music. In its earliest forms, music was intended to be viewed as an art, where the artists expressed their emotions in an attempt to educate and to influence their listeners. Part of this notion still holds true today, as modern artists express their inner emotions to please their music, messages, drugs, children, suicide, one, however, because, violence, songs, artists, adolescents, way, states, society, role, people, must, listeners, drug, death, alcohol, young, yet, true, should, right, put, problems, poor, negative, models, message, marijuana, listening