11. Message behind the Lyrics

One of the other papers that I had to write more my class this semester was a research paper. For my research paper I decided to look at the effect that musical lyrics were having on people. At first, this was the typical boring research paper, but as I started doing the research and reading through some of the studies, I got a little more interested. Everyone knows that many of the popular songs today have some lyrics that can be a little bit questionable, but I didn't really realize how prevalent some of those messages were until I read some of the research. These graphs show just a little bit about what my paper was on and what I learned about. (The research was done by Dr. Brian A. Primack, an Associate Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics, and Clinical and Translational Science at the University of Pittsburgh).

 

 

 

I for one was a little surprised to see this, especially when I learned from the same study that most kids listen to about 2.5 hours of music a day. Anyways. Doing this paper has definitely made me rethink about what kind of music I will be listening to from now on!