[QUOTE="Blood-Scribe"][QUOTE="gearsofAK"]I think it should be banned. Rap music is so stupid. I hate school dances for that reason. Every time it's either that stupid "jump on it" song or crank that. And my brother is obsessed with that kind of music and it really gets on my nerves.EnigManic
So how exactly does that justify banning an entire genre of music from a multi-billion dollar industry and breaking the 1st amendment?
I personally don't believe that any form of artisitic expression should be banned as long as it is not harmful. However, I certainly would not object to boycotts. In regards to your comment, let's talk about the first amendment:
How do you feel about a genre of music and its listeners being discriminated against?
For eleven years, Y 100.3 was the highest rated rock radio station in Philadelphia and the Delaware valley. (Preston and Steve rock!!) In catering to current trends in ghetto-delphia, Y 100 was suddenly, and without warning, pulled off the air so 103.9 (a rap station) could change bandwidths. As a matter of fact, the station employees, including the DJ's, came to work one morning to find a note on the locked door informing them they'd been canned, while Y100 still currently held the highest ratings in philly. This made headlines as thousands of listeners protested on the steps of the Philadelphia art museaum and outside the offices of Clearwater Entertainment. Now we have an excess of rap/hiphop stations and NO real rock stations. The only rock stations available in our area play a mix of genres from multiple decades. We have no station dedicated to modern rock music.
So let's talk about the first amendment. How about our right to hear the music we like on the radio instead of having rap music shoved down our throughts everywhere. While you're at it, let's play the race card! I've been to 6 proms in my life and every single one played an overabundance of rap music. This occurred at a couple suburban predominately white schools. Meanwhile, there are at least3 MTV stations that play predominately rap and hiphop.
So let me get this straight, we just wanna hear the music we like, but we have no decent radio or tv music stations. meanwhile we get rap and hiphop streamed everywhere and if we complain about it, we're either racist or closed-minded. Anyone who refuses to acknowledge how people like me feel about this can go to hell. Music has always been a big part of my life and, sadly, I'm out of touch with my own genre of music because I have no way of discovering talented new acts unless I can afford to take a chance and keep buying CDs that I may not like.
I can understand what you mean, but it's not as though taking a radio station off the air and having channels and prom dances dedicated to rap means that it's a constitutional issue. The owners of the radio stations and the channels have just about every right to air whatever they please, and I'm not too surprised to find that this much has been devoted to rap alone. And I just flat out don't like school dances to begin with, so it's not like I really care all that much about that sort of thing.
But the thing is, it's not really getting shoved down your throat. It doesn't need to be if you don't want it to, you can just as easily turn off the radio and the TV, and just not go to the prom. The fact of the matter is, that's not something that's your decision. It's completely up to the owners of the stations and channels to decide what they want to have getting aired and viewed by the masses, and that's not a constitutional breach.
In all honesty though, I really do feel for you, as I've had the same thing happen to my town a long time ago. There's only one station that plays rock, but it's not like I listen to it anyway, because I don't listen to rock to begin with, and I've never really trusted the idea of finding music through the radio to begin with. I've grown up with metal all of my life, so it's not like I really get any mainstream support to help me find new music. But that's not something that I'd complain about, because I'm actually glad that it's like that. I'd much rather have the pleasure of being able to find out about new bands by looking online, or best of all, by finding out about them through my brother and my friends that listen to metal.
But the very reason why I bothered to post that is because of what you addressed first, that it's still an art form, and therefore should not be touched in any way by the government. But what you're saying here, as I have said, is a completely different issue that is up to the owners of the channels and the radio stations, so there is nothing wrong there, and you'll just have to find some other way to find new music, or enjoy the music you do listen to by finding it on the radio or the tv. What's being addressed in this thread is a matter of unconstitutionally and ultimately pointlessly banning an entire genre of music that's part of a multi-billion dollar industry. There's never any point in doing such a thing, regardless of how much it has indirectly messed with the mediums that you use to listen to and find new music.
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