MUSIC & SEXUYALITY

Music & Messages about Sexuality

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Music & Messages about Sexuality

Although sexual content in the media can affect any age team, teenagers may be particularly insecure. Adolescents may come in contact with sex-related articles in the media during a developing period when sex tasks, sex-related behavior, and sexuality are being formed. This group may be particularly at risk because the intellectual skills that allow them to seriously evaluate information from the media and to make choices based on possible future results are not fully developed (Brown, 1993).

The pressure put on females through ads, television, movie and new media to be intimately attractive—and intimately active—is powerful. The National Eating Conditions Organization reviews that one out of four TV advertisements send some kind of "attractiveness concept," informing visitors what is and is not attractive (Brown, 1993).

The use of false information and media stereotyping is distressing, given research that indicates adolescents often convert to media for details about sex and sexuality. Research reveals that two-thirds of adolescents turn to media when they want to understand about sex - the same amount of children who ask their moms for details and guidance (Committee on Communications, American Academy of Pediatrics. 1995).

The song that is selected, which stereotypes female sexuality through its music video and its lyrics is in a very narrow term is “Teardrops on My Guitar” by Tailor Swift spreads a similar message. One of lyrics in the song goes: "And there he goes, so perfectly/ the kind of flawless I wish I could be". It feels like she perceives boys to be perfect, a standard she could never attain. Her music video enacted a scene in our present society, thus it is absurd to have this notion when it is known that women can do the same things men can; they can also achieve the same things men can. Furthermore, this song gives the impression that she goes to school not to get an education but to find a lifelong partner. The music video shows Taylor Swift's character having a crush on Drew who likes another girl, yet Taylor's character could only put on a smile and be happy for him (and not meaning it). This portrays women being unconfident of themselves, soft-spoken, etc. -a portrayal of traditional women.

Rascal Flatts song called "Love Who You Love," which was written as a reminder to show affection to the people closest to ...