Music and Teens

For most teens music is an important factor in everyday life for them. This means you won't find a teenager without an I-Pod, Zune, or some kind of music playing device at some point during the day. Teens listen to an average of 40 hours of music per week. Whether it be on the radio, their computer, or the new CD kids rarely buy these days since they can just download them off of the internet. Often there is no filter on what teenagers listen to. Of course the radio and music videos on T.V "Bleep" out all of the bad words, and try to keep the content as clean as possible, but most music is about sex, violence, and drugs.
Information found: http://www.swmihoh.org/INeedHelp/TeenStatistics/tabid/71/Default.aspx

The natures of the type of music adolescents listen to can be reflected back on how they treat their friends, families and teachers.
The negative effects:
The adolescents listening to the music could have several affects depending on the type of music. Depending on the type of music this could range from simple outbursts to shocking violence against other teens. One of the most shocking examples I can think of is the Columbine High School shootings. These kids were into Heavy Metal, Screamo, and basic Rock and Roll. Some of the people they listened to were people like Marilyn Manson. If you haven't learned much about the Columbine shootings you should know that many people blamed Mansons violent music that talked about taking out your anger on others for the teens actions. This as an extreme case where children took what they heard from the music they listened to daily and put it into action.
Other negative effects could be a little bit of teenage rebellion towards parents and teachers, listening to music so much/almost too much where you isolate yourself from friends and other peers, or getting the wrong impression of society from a certain song or group.
Two violent acts blamed on Metal, Is it right?  http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2466738/does_heavy_metal_have_an_effect_on.html?cat=7

Two sides to every story, Marilyn speaks out: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Columbine-Massacre-Cost-Me-Everything-Marilyn-Manson-Says-114107.shtml

There are many more POSITIVE affects which I would rather focus on like
Music therapy: Music can affect anyone's mood and help them relax. Depending on the volume, intensity, and frequency of the song or artist people can internalize the emotions of the singer/band and start to feel that themselves. Music can help stimulate our minds and help us.

In reaity sure music may have some bad reputations around some people, but mostly music is a helpful tool around teenagers and adolescents. It helps brings different kinds of people together, and lets them be themselves without having to worry about everyday stresses.

Want more of the positive effects of music? Go here: http://winmentalhealth.com/music_psychology.php