Sluts, Pimps and Music

It's common knowledge to the people that are close to me that on most days, I really can't stand getting the bus to work. A lot of the times they are dirty and messy and while I can put up with this, it is mostly the people that are on it that annoy the hell out of me. The people who have their ipods, mp3 players and once someone actually bought a full blown stereo on the bus and had it on VERY loud. Bus drivers don't care and as much as I believe in self expression, it is not the way to go with certain music.

I was sat towards the back of the but the other day and a couple of girls were singing along to a song by Jesse J. It's called "Do it like a dude" and some of the lyrics these girls (they were about 14 years of age) were singing were "Rollin' rollin' rollin' rollin' money like a pimp, My B I T C H's on my dick like this, Dirty dirty dirty dirty dirty dirty sucker, You think I can't get her like you, you motherfucker."

What on Earth??

It reminded me a few years ago when a pop group called "The black eyed peas" had a song out called "My humps" and I remember then too that 2 girls were singing to this with some of the lyrics being "My humps, my humps (repeated a few times), my lovely lady lumps." These girls were also about 14 years old at the time-if that. Their humps weren't even fully grown as of yet.

I see a countless number of newspapers and magazines with pictures of whores like Rhianna and Katy Perry along with the ones mentioned above as well as others sexualising music and totally degrading the word "music". Everybody, even these musical "artists" know that the record companies are mostly targeting young audiences with pornographic lyrics, images and videos to simply make money. Rhianna made it onto the cover of Vogue magazine. Why?? Because of money. She wrote a song with lyrics saying "sticks and stones may break my bones but whips and chains excite me". This is coming from a woman who was beat up by her ex boyfriend.

I really wish music was just music and not people whoring themselves.

A lot of the children and very young adults that get drawn into this know very little about sex (or music) as much as they might pretend to know. To some, all they know is that the song is rude and they get their jollies by singing it aloud because they know the words are prohibited. Girls will dress up as their idols whilst still at a very vunerable age and this kind of thing can just be plain dangerous. Girls will act like sex objects and then guys will treat them like sex objects. I have seen girls wear tops that say "Slut" and "Whore" on them. Do they really want to be known as these words??

So who is to blame for all this?? Parents, the music industry, the artists themselves or just society in general?? Kids aren't even kids anymore now. They are growing up too fast with younger and younger people having sex and making babies. Young girls worrying about being overweight and impressing the boys by wearing make up from primary school age. Boys themselves not really caring about anything but bragging about how many girls they have slept with.

Why? What has actually happened?