Music and morals

Well, I'm with Freud here. I think that and puritans are full of unconscious lusts and perversions. The puritanism is in self-defense.

Why 'unconscious'? Maybe the puritans are the only ones who realisticaly acknowledge what the human consciousness is capable of, and correctly decide to repress it.

some people are dumb enough to do what they think songs are telling them to do regardless of whether it harms somebody somehow. i blame the parents.

Or perhaps (worst of all), today's accusation that a rap artist would kill his flatmate and eat part of her lungs to maintain his 'gangsta' cred.
Wouldn't that act only count if he killed/ate peices of a rival set member (ie crip eat blood/blood eat crip)?

gangsta vs. mere thug

Well, the thing is, puritans and gangsters have a fatal attraction to one another. The cop coulda been a gangster,and maybe will be next year. The surgeon coulda been a murderer, and maybe will next year. Don't tell me surgeons don't get a private little kick out of 'accidentally' killing patients.

Is that why malpractice insurance in PA is $200,000 a year?

Music isn´t a moral treatice and musicians ain´t misionaries...so you can´t link morals into it. You might talk about ethics though or some kind of social morality..which in itself depends on the place and context. Some music has a place, gangsta rap was a necesary statements, a reaction. That´s why it was good..but now it has lost it´s charm, it´s context...now all there is to it is the "blim, blim". It´s ironic that rap music was a response to white capitalism..yet now they commercialize it, became one with their own enemy.Yet, if you ask me Limp Bizkit and Creed (and am trying hard to make a theory and blame all of this on both Puff Daddy and Madonna)probably screw it all up, forget morals, those two are just plain evil!. "uhh look at me.. am Creed.. am Creed.. I drink a lot and GOD &%#"&() still loves me"...no wonder am a f"%/@¡ atheist.If you ask me I think Christina Aguilera is more inmoral than Lou Reed. But hey that´s just me. At least Lou Reed accepted what he was..in his own ambiguous way. He didn´t aim at being a spokesman.