I keep hearing all these songs on the radio. They all deal with the same topics.
-Money
-Power Struggles
-Sex
I listened to a CD the other day, and yes, Lupe Fiasco was just saying how we prostitute ourselves – money, power, sex. What makes this prostitution worse is that it’s on public radio – FM to be exact and the little impressionable kids get these messages repeatedly.
Now, people don’t even differentiate hooking up from sex, or sex from a real relationship. It’s all the same. The term hooking up has changed. My generation used to define it as making out or kissing. The younger generation defines it as sex. Back in the day, “we’re together” meant that is my man or woman, because we are steadily dating exclusively. Now “we’re together” has to be explained precisely because no one knows what that vagueness means. The 80s and 90s introduced the concept of casual sex. Now “I’m doing the nasty with him or her” means there’s no relationship and he or she is free for the taking, but you better stay away or get cut for even looking at him or her too long. So, present-day, sex has been confused for a real relationship. And relationships are being detailed to the point that they seem non-existent.
The newer generational sex campaign attempts to stop teens from spreading STDs. Since the beginning of time teens have been having sex. Some people try to act shocked that the peewees are preggers or victims of domestic violence and rape or have Chlamydia. As open and honest as sex has become in the last few decades, the sexually-vague media might want to consider impressionable kids. I enjoy the songs, but not when my eight year old cousin is in the car asking me what the words are. No. FM Radio and expletive nasty don’t really mix. Policy members of the FCC must not even listen to FM radio, but I bet they know what expletive nasty is and I doubt they want their kids doing it.
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