Drugs in the music Industry
The Music World-glamorous, fast paced, and a world most of us will never be part of. But if we knew what it entailed, would we still want to be? The whole world seems to be building itself around drugs more and more every day, and music industry isn't immune. In fact, music is one of the most influential art forms of today's society, and drugs, especially to today's youth, just add to the attractiveness of it all.
In the last two or three years, drugs, especially heroin, have risen in use dramatically. Kurt Cobain was the most high-profile drug-related rock star since the 1970's and was still battling heroin addiction when he committed suicide in 1994. Along with him, his wife Courtney Love made it fashionable to be a "junkie". In the last year, Stone Temple Pilot's singer Scott Weiland and Depeche Mode singer David Gahan, among others, have
been arrested for cocaine or heroin possession.
The number of top bands that have been linked to heroin through a member's overdose, arrest, admitted use or recovery is staggeringSmashing pumpkins, Everclear, Snoop Doggy Dogg, Dr. Dre, Blind Melon, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Breeders, Alice in Chains, Sex Pistols, Sublime, Iggy Pop, the list goes on
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and on. Together, these bands have sold more than 60 million albums(Newsweek pgs 50 & 53).
Since kids emulate popular musicians, what is there to keep them from emulating their drug use? Moreover, what's to keep the majority of the population from doing the same? In the 60's and 70's, drug use was never spoken of nor did anyone admit that it was a problem. Nowadays, there is not a person in the world who hasn't heard about the rising drug use. But what are they doing...
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This is one of the more burdensome collections of cliches, tried tropes, and worn out lines on the drug problem that I have ever read. Among other things, that "n the 60's and 70's, drug use was never spoken of nor did anyone admit that it was a problem" is a statement that can be made only by someone who is too young to have lived through that period, and much too immature to have studied the period seriously. "Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds" ; "I Get By with a Little Help From My Friends": "Let's Go Get Stoned": "White Rabbit." The FCC did not consider banning these songs in 1969 because they found the drum line objectionable.
In short, this essay should be relegated to the pile of old, tired cliches.
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