letters.Don't Blame the Music! All musicians, Eminem included, should have the right to rap or sing about whatever they want ("They Want Your MTV MTV in full Music Television U.S. cable television network, established in 1980 to present videos of musicians and singers performing new rock music. MTV won a wide following among rock-music fans worldwide and greatly affected the popular-music business. ," 10/16/00). Limiting what they can and can't say is against our freedom of speech. Whoever does not agree with the lyrics of any musicians should not buy or listen to their CDs. PAUL LA PEAN pe·an n. Variant of paean. Noun 1. pean - (ancient Greece) a hymn of praise (especially one sung in ancient Greece to invoke or thank a deity) paean , STEVE FIGUEROA, and NOAH Noah (nō`ə) [Heb.,=to rest], in the Bible, the builder of the ark. Righteous Noah and his family were the only people God saved from a world sunk in sin. PLANTS Mount Calvary, Wis. Eminem doesn't mean anything harmful with his lyrics. If you pay close attention to the ends of his songs, he says he's kidding. Limp Bizkit's music has bad lyrics too. My guess is that both bands have some extra anger that they haven't been able to get rid of, so that's why they sing what they do. Often, when I get upset, I go to my room and turn on some Eminem or Limp Bizkit to get rid of my hatred. ASHLEY PERRY Reynoldsburg, Ohio Reynoldsburg is a city in Fairfield, Franklin, and Licking counties in the U.S. state of Ohio. The population was 32,069 at the 2000 census; a 2006 estimate reported a population of 33,076. My friends and I all listen to the music that is being attacked. Do musical artists put a gun or knife in our hand and tell us to pull the trigger? No, they sing what they feel, and anyone who honestly takes them seriously has a few problems themselves. Anger kills people, not music. COREY CAIRD caird n. Scots An itinerant tinker. [Scottish Gaelic ceard, tinker, smith, from Old Irish cerd, artisan, skill.] Marietta, Ga. With all the unhappy things Eminem has been through, cut the guy some slack! And let him enjoy his time in the spotlight. Recently, I had a big Eminem poster behind my door, so my parents wouldn't have to look at it. Then I went to my grandma's house for a while, and guess what? When I came home, the poster was gone. Where was it? In the garbage! I was crying for about an hour. Let us kids enjoy Eminem's music, and let him enjoy what he is doing. Then maybe he will clean up his act. CHRISTINE PARRINELLO Bohemia Bohemia, Czech Čechy, historic region (20,368 sq mi/52,753 sq km) and former kingdom, in W and central Czech Republic. Bohemia is bounded by Austria in the southeast, by Germany in the west and northwest, by Poland in the north and northeast, and by , N. Y. These rappers are telling the lives of many young people in this world. CARMEN NEGRON Chicago, Ill. I love Eminem's music and I've figured out when he's being serious and when he's just playing around. If you try to take away our MTV, you will definitely lose my vote. AMANDA SIMMONS Glasgow, Ky. They try to find a scapegoat scapegoat In the Old Testament, a goat that was symbolically burdened with the sins of the people and then killed on Yom Kippur to rid Jerusalem of its iniquities. Similar rituals were held elsewhere in the ancient world to transfer guilt or blame. for everything a teenager does. Why can't they blame it on the people who really deserve it--the parents? JOE LEBLANC Katy, Tex. Some of the violence and explicit lyrics today go too far. But if parents want to keep their children away from such influences, they have to not own a TV or a radio. It is impossible to shelter a child from our culture. LILY CAVANAUGH Portsmouth, R.I. I am 19 and I have a son of my own, and if he ever wanted to listen to Eminem's music I would let him. Why, whenever anything goes wrong, is it always blamed on the music? What song encouraged Bill Clinton to do what he did? ANGIE RUSSELL Angela "Angie" Russell was a fictional character on the Australian soap opera Home and Away, portrayed by Laurie Foell from 2002 until the character's death in 2003. Angie subsequently appeared as a ghost in her daughter Tasha's dreams. Taft, Calif. |
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