I can't believe they are still studying this. I think Beethoven wrote "Intoxication Symphony No. 5" Ask any teenager (or former teenager) and they will tell you.
But "medical researchers" probably got some grant and used it as an excuse to build a music collection. (Hey look, 10 CD's for a penny!) They selected the 279 most popular songs from genres like country, pop, R&B, rap and rock, then sifted through their lyrics, counting references to drugs, alcohol and tobacco. Of those songs, 33 percent contained explicit references and 42 percent had some kind of substance abuse reference. Not to mention a groovy beat that you can dance to. I'd give it a 9.
They calculated that with Americans aged 15 to 18 listening to 2.4 hours of music daily, they hear 84 musical references to substance use a day and more than 30,000 a year. That doesn’t even count the sexual enhancement commercials in between the songs.
Seventy-seven percent of rap songs tracked in the study contained such references, along with 36 percent of country songs, 20 percent of songs classified as "R&B/hip-hop," 14 percent of rock songs and 9 percent of pop songs.
Gee, maybe these record labels are missing the boat. I'm thinking Def Jam Pharmaceuticals might be the way to go.
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