Since Generation X, kids in the West are getting exposed to sexual material too early. As teens they don't feel sex as a mystery, and thus they are not as soothed by melodies & lyrics as their parents had been.
Already, the kid's shirt shows signs of spiritual unease. It's red with a bug-eyed animal and the word SMASH on it (it might even be the kids favorite, the one he chose for the big day on center court).
Add the way text is inflicted on them in school and you get a rapping generation.
My point is that the rapping takes the role of psychiatry, teenagers talking about childhood events they weren't ready for, so much so that they mask the universal, non-relative voice that good music holds.
I say this extra part because I believe the various elements of music are non-relative, that they link up aspects of nature.
related:
- recent Dennis the Menace cartoon (for families!)
- rap video in which a young man wants to float.
Sorry, dude, but your childhood is gone. - Piercing is related to this issue. examples: 1 2 I more-or-less agree with a quote from 'Teenagers detachment from Self':'If a teenager can feel a steel bolt through her tongue move whenever she speaks, at least she knows she inhabits her own body, even if she doubts her own soul.'
modified: 2007-09-21
