Pop Artists Unplugged

Music artists should be free in their expression.
I agree with this statement.


Yet, in addition they must also be responsible for
their expression in some reasonable fashion or manner.

They do this in a number of ways such as through
radio or television interviews, creating "clean
versions", or through sticker rating systems.

However, many of these responsibility maintenance
systems and services appear to be failing often in
America today because the American people, no matter
their age, still appear to be consuming all that
American Corporations intend that they consume even
if a product is marked "for mature audiences only."

Simultaneously, the supposed "of age" people appear
to be getting more and more immature if they apparently
are the ones consuming the majority of the often
increasingly less than mature music and media that
keeps getting made in America today.


Thus, either way, it remains our responsibility as
parents and as responsible people in the human family,
to give our children plenty of positive and powerful
alternative influences to help neutralize the negative.


Otherwise, a music artist can transcend his or her
own music sometimes to become a force for violence,
social chaos, influential destruction, and philosophical
harm to the mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being
of a young person.

In other words, music artists who are simply out to make
a buck and who don't give a f--k about society or "other
people's children" will often go for the lowest common
denomenator (i.e. violence, gangsterism, sex, "bling-bling"
materialism, shock value, etc.) to sell their music.

In other words, these music artists are truly just business
people out to sell music to the immature among us, and I am
not speaking here against business, but I am here speaking
for education, awareness, and responsibility for the
effects of media (including music, television, video games,
etc.)

I am here speaking for the protection of society and of our
children. I am here speaking for our children to protect
our society and themselves.


Thus, again, we as parents and as mature and long-term
thinking people concerned with society and all children,
not just our own, must simply offer up powerful positive
role models (e.g. Dr. Martin Luther King, Gandhi, etc.)
and positive music artist alternatives (e.g. KRS-ONE, Bob
Marley, Kanye West, etc.) for our children.



We may even have to pull the plug sometimes as well!