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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was raised on a steady diet of vile rap, woman-objectifying glam rock, depressive and suicidal heavy metal, and Nine Inch Nails (industrial?  I don't know Trent Reznor's in a class by himself).  Never, even as a dumbass teenager, did I think that the lyrics were some sort of inspired mantra for how I should live my life.  Most of this music still resides in my master playlist, and I listen to some subset of it every day.  It's art, and art is provocative and objectionable and varies widely in quality.

Despite this, I am a functional adult with a good job, health insurance, my own home, and several degrees.  I've even managed to avoid being arrested!  I manage not to get into altercations with authority, use the lyrics to inform my relationships with women or men, or take the amount of drugs suggested by some of the songs.  Just like my parents did not drop out of society despite very much enjoying hippy, free-love, and folk music.

If you sit down and listen to the actual lyrics of nearly any genre of music, you're going to find something offensive.  I laugh at the idea of country music being so clean - it's got misogyny, running out on your family, and, though I make an exception and do love Willie Nelson, drug and alcohol use.  But it's a bunch of white guys singing it, so it's not "vile", right?  So many others.... The Police?  Prostitution and pedophilia. Aerosmith, good lord, where to start.  Jimmy Buffett literally has a song called "Why Don't We Get Drunk (and Screw)?".

Long story short, the majority of non-classical music is going to have something that someone objects to, going waaaaayyyy back to the provocative music of Elvis, and the goal should be to raise a kid who doesn't hear a catchy tune and not have the mental prowess to think that it's an instruction manual for life.

And don't be such a pearl-clutcher.[/quote]

Well said, PP, though I feel kind of sad that you need to spell this out.  
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