Friday, March 18, 2011
Recrod companies and their responsibilities
I believe that all record companies should be responsible for putting parental advisories and labeling all explicit music, and that they should be held accountable for not doing so. I also believe that it should not stop with just labeling the music they make, I think the stores that sell the music should do their part by not selling explicit music to any person under the age of 18 unless they have been carded or they are accompanied by an adult . and then to follow up with this, the record stores should be treated like the fast food places but instead of an inspection with a letter grade it should be an anonymous shopper watching to see if the clerk will sell to an under aged youth. Once these three steps are in place and done correctly. The control will be put back in the parents hands because they will have the ultimate say so and control over what they allow their children to listen to. And yes it does take a village to raise a child but, installing the correct morals and values you want your child to grow up with starts at home, because home is their first school and we as parents introduce them to television, music, and movies and we control what they see and hear. If the record companies and the stores that sell the music make it visible know which music is unsuitable for minors meaning any and every one under the age of 18. we as parent and a society under distress should be able to cut down the rate of violence in our youth. Now I'm not saying that this will work or happen over night, just like everything else in this world it takes time and only time will tell.
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I definitely agree with you. The places selling explicit music shouldn't sell to anyone under the age of 18. The problem with this is that most music is bought online in this day and age. With iTunes and Rhapsody and all other online stores as well as illegal downloading avenues it is very hard to restrict kids from buying this music. When I was younger and iTunes was first coming to be my mom wouldn't let me buy certain songs because she said it was her money and she wouldn't spend it on "trash music." Once Britney Spears came out with her third album with the "Slave for You" song on it that was the end of my Britney Spears music accessibility. I still managed to get it though. I had my best friend burn me a CD of all Britney. At the end of the day there is only so much a parent can do to restrict certain music. I believe it comes down to the morals instilled in the child, not how sheltered from the outside world they are that makes kids turn into upstanding people of society. :0)
ReplyDeleteI agree with you that record companies should be responsible for putting warning labels on the music they distribute, but I don’t think that it’s as big of a deal that there needs to be anonymous inspectors the stores. I think that the inspectors need to be more in places like convenience stores where alcohol and/or cigarettes are involved. I do not think that music is harmful enough to ruin the lives of the youth. I think that there are definitely some lyrics that I would not want my future children listening too, but that is the responsibility of the parent, not the record companies. Parents are ultimately responsible for their children and if they want something done about the music their children listen too, than it is up to them to fix it.
ReplyDeleteWarning labels might be helpful to parents’ if/when the parents want to inspect their children’s music. If the child owns a CD with a warning label on it then that might prompt the adult to monitor what their children listen to. So I do think that there should be warnings on music that has adult content in them, but it is up to the guardians to really change the minds of children who want to listen to music with negative or harmful lyrics.
I like how you developed your points about the responsibilities of the record companies. The steps you mentioned to control the sale of music to under age kids, it is a very good idea. It is a big concern for me, since my son is only eleven years old but all the kids of this age, want to be like they say cool, but I as mom, have to be very responsible and attentive to the movements of him. My son has access to the music through his IPod, and the music he saved has been downloaded by me, and I think my labor is double, because since the songs are not sung in my native language, I try always to check the lyrics of the songs he will listen to. In any case, the stores as you said, have as much responsibilities as the record companies, because they know who is going to buy it. The control must be spread from the first link of this chain until the final component. I am sure if the chief executives of the record companies control the parental advisories, the teenagers would not be affected, trying to copy a wrong image of a musician.
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