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Sex in mainstream music By Carla Batchelor * Wenewsmagazine Our parents often exclaim, Turn off that horrible music countless times throughout our lives. Many do not understand the reasoning behind this, especially if the music is sexually charged. Is music in 2006 any different from the music produced in 1966? While many might state yes because of the different nature in the music itself, others might state the same answer due to the lyrics which comprise todays music. If one were to turn on the radio to a Pop or R&B station, he/she will find lyrics full of sexual statements and innuendos. While parents might be upset at what their children are listening to, how different is current music from music parents med to when they were. young? Honestly, not very much. If students listen to the lyrics of classic 1967 song Brown Eyed Girl by Van Morrison they will find the following: Sometimes I'm overcome thinking about, Making love in the green grass, Behind the stadium, With you, my brown-eyed gir. This is just one of the many examples from the 1960s; looking back at Bob Dylan, The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, the sexually suggestive nature of al of their music is exposed. But these are just some of the popular musicians from the 1960s. One cannot forget about the Jimmy Buffett classic, Why Don't We Get Drunk; the title leaves little left for the imagination, especially once the song is listened to just one time, Now, what about the 1930s? Sexually suggestive? Blues music from the 1930s, especially those sung by women, was highly suggestive, even more so than some of the music from the 1960s. Bessie Smith is the perfect example; many eyebrows were raised when in 1933 she recorded, "Do Your Duty at her last recording session before her death in 1937. While it is a bit harder to find her music in 2006, if one looks at the lyrics, he or she will find: When you come, be ready to play, Do your duty. {f you want to have some luck, give your baby your last buck. Don't come quackin like a duck, Do Your Duty... The Pressure to Feel Sexy By Lilli Nicholson + WEnewsmagazine There is an epidemic in, Pa vestca for both men and women to fee! sexy, and it is apparent in American popular culture mostly through social pressure and the media (which directly influences our society and thus creates the social pressures). What is considered sexy in America? One would think, from watching television and looking at magazines, that its thinness, muscles, and overall physical beauty. No attention is paid to the inner woman or man or how smart, funny or interesting someone is, and this is quite problematic. There is, for example, the common stereotype of the girl with the great personality. When a girl is described that way, she is perceived to be physically unattractive in some way and thus is less desirable. This is just stupid. Personality should come before how someone looks always. Looks are such a transient thing and just aging changes them, not to mention other things like stress, hormone. levels and any other given mixture of factors. When ail the emphasis is placed on the outside, the inside shrivels up. People become superficial and aren't concemed with the character or personality of someone. It's all about the body, the clothes, the make-up and the possessions. These things create the right look and the right image just to attract another person for physical or romantic relationships. Well, what happens when those things are gone and you're left with just the person? What if the person has the personality of a stick and can't hold an intelligent conversation for two minutes? You're in trouble. WCnewsmagazine 21 if my radiator gets too hot, cool it off in a lot of spots, Do Your: Duty. While Millennial, as to which our generation is referred, might not see anything wrong with what was stated by Van Morrison. Many radio stations did not play that song in the late 60s because of the lyrics. It was a progressive, sexually suggestive song for its time. It is known that the music did not get any cleaner when Woodstock came around 1969, but at that point music was still changing. Today we are faced with lyrics of popular songs being more sexually poignant than suggestive. The pop culture music scene has changed drastically since the 1960s without any objection. But todays music is not as much about the message as it used to be: today it's about what sells. What sells today is sex, point blank. Look at the lyrics of David Banner's "Play" for example. While the lyrics are too explicit for publication in the paper, they leave nothing to the imagination. Though this song is one of the most popular explicit songs at the moment, there are other songs which state the same in not so many words. All of these songs are constitution to a generation who engages in sexual activities at an early age due to this music, according to a study published in Apri issue of Pediatrics. The study was actually conducted in select public schools in North Carolina, in which they found that the highest exposure levels {ed to more sexual activity, with white teens in the group 2.2 times more likely to have had intercourse at ages 14 to 16 than similar youngsters who had the least exposure. While this was just one of the many studies on the topic, there is no doubt in many minds that the music today is definitely more sexually aggressive, but itis hard to find studies on how the music of the 1960s affect the sexual activity of that generation. Assumptions can be made based on Woodstock and The Summer of Love," but overall music today is more mainstream than it was in the 1930s and some of the music in the 1960s. So, while it may seem that this generation is listening to more sexual music, just look back to the past for the real answer. COMMENTARY What a lot of people in America don't realize is that none of those things last into the middie and later parts of life. Things disintegrate and bodies change. It is important to stay healthy. However, some people age differently than others. Some people fight the aging process because it isn't sexy to get old. In America, we have plastic surgeries for any kind of un-sexy attribute = face lifts, liposuction, nose jobs, eye jobs, lip jobs, botox, etc. People fight graying hairs with hair dyes and balding with implants, toupees or wigs. Why is being sexy such an important thing? From childhood, we are taught the difference between pretty and ugly. Most Americans never really learn how to see beauty in everything and are pressured to feel pretty because ugly has negative stipulations. This leads to people, when they're older, wanting to feel sexy because being un-sexy is comparable to being undesirable and that is just unacceptable. | think sexiness is a personal thing that changes from person to person People are so different, so there are inherently different ways to be sexy. | don't think that the only way to be sexy is to be like the imagery portrayed in mass media. | also think anyone who thinks that needs to take a walk outside because only a small fraction of the population actually looks and thinks like that. | know that for me, the sexiest people are the ones who are themselves and are free to express themselves. They know who they are and aren't afraid to be who they are. I's not necessarily about what they look they have or their level of pettiness, but about how comfortable they are being themselves.

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The Western Carolinian is Western Carolina University's student-run newspaper. The paper was published as the Cullowhee Yodel from 1924 to 1931 before changing its name to The Western Carolinian in 1933.
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  - Date original: 2006-04-28
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