music and censorship essay

Music And Censorship
Music and Censorship In our society today, some musicians and their
music drain and plague the moral and spiritual well-being of the people;
therefore, censorship offers a necessary action that we must take to keep
the world from becoming a land of decadence. The musicians lives are
not examples for the children or the adults. The lyrics of many songs are
not suitable for anyone. All types of music need some kind of censorship.
Censorship makes a person realize that music is good for the heart.
Censorship totally makes people act better, and when thinking better, this
sustains a better society. The lives of some musicians contain types of
anarchy and self-gratification. Once the musicians realize that people
want not just their music but them as well, they act as gods, which no
one can touch.
For example, think of it like a secret dictatorship, and we breathe as a
fascist society, which puts fun and feelings above the Lord, above all.
Many of the musicians consist of non-religious people who live only for
fun and only for themselves. Why then would we, especially as
Christians, put our total devotion in them? It exists like wanting to ride
with a blind driver rather than one with perfect vision. In addition many
of the musicians use drugs and stimulants to satisfy their hunger for
themselves and for pure fun.
The musicians tend to use drugs massively, to get out of the very real
world that they consist so much a part of. Popularity seems pleasing but
when one has the affections and total devotion of a mass of people, that
person can not handle it because that person does not have Jesus'
personality and only He could truly control that much fidelity. One
person who truly could not handle the excitement was Jimi Hendrix.
Instead of performing as himself and using his talent for good, he used
rebellion and used many drugs. On stage, Jimi Hendrix would put hits of
acid in his headband. When he perspired, the sweat, containing acid
would run down into his eyes and make him "higher than a kite."

Most people never actually saw Jimi Hendrix the person, but a blurred
vision of him. When Jimi performed on stage at Woodstock, a man from
the crowd asked him, "Jimi are you high?" He simply replied back to the
man, "Thanks man I got mine," causing the crowd to act wild almost as if
he had saved someone's life, but ironically he unintentionally destroyed
their lives. In addition Bob Dylan also talked about getting stoned in
some of his music. The song "Rainy Day Woman #12 and #13," blatantly
says that "everybody must get stoned." That tells people to disobey the
law and tells people to mangle the temple of God, our bodies by
perverting it with drugs and stimulants. Many musicians make a mockery
of their fans. The lead singers subsist to do this the most because of the
vocal opportunities they have to express their discontent with life and
thrust their ideas upon those who hypnotize with the musician's power
position, thus, makes the listeners obey their thoughts without fully
knowing. The lead singer Billie Jo, for Green Day, says to his fans, " I'm
not going to say anything f****** intelligent, I'm just going too swear a
whole d*** lot." The Bible tells us that we should let everything that
comes out of our mouth praise Him, and swearing for any reason doesn't
really praise Him at all and is degrading for us as well. Almost like if he
did not swear than we wouldn't like him or understand him. In addition
the lead singer for Kiss would spit on his fans. He would get the crowd
to spit in a spittoon-type container, and by the end of the concert, he
would drink the saliva and then he would use what dwelled left in the
spittoon to spit on the crowd. This creates a bad influence on anybody
and makes a person believe that it justifies him to do these actions
because he dwells on stage, which totally in fact creates wrong, and not
right. The band would also wear face paint and look like demons of some
sort. This displays a mockery of what God has given us, and it hides their
true identities and make them something they are not. They are only
human, trying to be a type of some sort of god, not the God. The lyrics of

some songs openly and/or subliminally put rebelliousmessages in the
heads of people.
Repetition makes someone think about things constantly and then act
upon that thought which usually creates an illegal action. Outward
messages make people do bad things knowingly, but they aren't in the
correct state of mind and therefore have no idea what they do at all.
Adrenaline comes forth from within the soul and people tend to go wild
and have no care about anything. Rage Against The Machine says that no
one can tell each other what to do in their song, "Killing in the Name."
This song promotes anarchy and rebellion of all rules and makes peoples
discontent with society come forth. Metallica tells people to "Exit light,
Enter night" in their song "Enter Sandman." This song does not talk
about sleeping but taking the dark side of life into life. Subliminal
messages bring evils from within a person, which the person previously
did not have.
Subliminal messages brings our deepest thoughts out, without even
thinking. When we hear something but, not aware of it, it makes our
minds think about it and that is dangerous. Madonna's "Justify My Love"
song played backwards, blatantly says, "I love Satan." Thousands of
people heard this on 98.1 WKQQ in Lexington, KY.; but still continue to
listen to it anyway. This pumps into our heads and we like it because,
"men will choose darkness instead of light." Heavy Metal and Hard Rock
do not only break the moral character, but there exist others as well.
Those who are softly padded with the broken hearts of people who have
power over others and who, in fact, make the rules. Country music also
has many songs which are not acceptable, but they have shields because
of their soft tone and wholesome looking artist. People still have in their
heads things that look good and sound pleasant live approvable, but
Satan, a very smart guy will strike at the most unexpected places. Garth
Brooks, who takes one of the leading country singers right now, talks

about an affair and how it was approbated in his song " The Thunder
Rolls." And people hear this and see a star doing that and believe it's
acceptable for them as well. For example, watching parents as a child,
and everything they do, you do. In addition Sammy Cershaw talks about
an affair in " Third Rate Rendezvous." He doesn't care that he's cheating
on his wife and is actually excited when he knows what he's doing to his
marriage and life. New Age music offers innner-self as a substitute to
God. This means that the meditation of the biblical times cannot be
achieved today and we tend to lose our respect for God by trying it,
because we meditate on ourselves and not on Him. Meditation of the
new age music also allows Satan to plant seeds in our heads that lead us
further and further away from the truth.
The new age music of harps and tiny nature like sounds of whales and
dolphins and rain leads one to believe that they are alone in this world. It
makes people think that they control their environment, when in fact only
God does, not them. Indian and Monk chants actually make a person
seemingly high through deep meditation. Meditation was originally
intended for the pure thought of God, but with new age thoughts, we are
perverting it. Censorship puts a cap on ungodly music and makes music a
good experience that is productive and positive, rather than a negative
one. Music can be a tool in which we may learn examples of life, just
look at the book of Psalms. In chapter 23 the whole chapter is called the
Shepherds Song and it is a song that we can learn from. Stopping the
flow of profanity will make a person less inclined to think about an
action and furthermore, less likely to act upon one. If a person doesn't
think about something, then usually that person won't do it. When
masses of people are saying that it is all right to do things that are wrong
over a period of time, people become prone to the wrong doing and it
suddenly becomes part of the norm to them. Even though it is still
wrong, we don't even realize it.

Repetition makes a mind think. To study for a test a person must read
things over and over again to learn it. When we hear music we like, we
listen to it over and over again to memorize and subconsciously think
about the words of the song that we're listening to. When people hear
ungodly lyrics over and over, they tend to think like their surroundings
and music is a part of that. After hearing and memorizing words people
form their own ideals and make new religions and leave God forever.
Also, people hear music far more than they read the Bible, and if the
music is damaging to us then negative thoughts will cloud out the
Biblical ones. Just like one negative number will make a positive number
come down. Censorship offers a better society in general, in which we
can all live in harmony and learn to respect music power. People would
respect the laws more because there would be a definite decline of
ungodly things, acts and thoughts with censorship we won't think on
ungodly things as much, therefore have a better society. Fewer crimes
would be committed because there would be no musicians telling the
public to break them or kill cops. People make musicians their idols and
want to do what their idols say. With censorship we would learn to
meditate on the right things. We would see the essence of music and
learn to see the total spectrum of life rather than just our life. Good
thoughts with productive meaning would flow through our heads. We
would hear positive things and make us think about positive things in
general. Christian music is a great example of what we should listen.
People would learn to answer things with their minds and not their fists.
People would think about positive ideas and positive outcomes to
quarrels, that usually involved fighting or "back-stabbings."