Music and music lyrics are also easily accessible over the Internet. During the past four decades music lyrics have become increasingly explicit with graphic references to sex, drugs, and violence. Heavy metal and rap music lyrics are of the greatest concern because of their target age group, the adolescents, who have proven to be easily influenced. Some musical lyrics send some potentially harmful messages to the children listening to the words artists are singing to them. Such lyrics are of special concern in today's environment which poses unprecedented threats to the health and well-being of adolescents.
Music is an important part of a teenager's life and is a big part of their identity.
The music they listen to is a way for them to express themselves. Music is a way teenagers can relate to other teens without having to talk about themselves or listen to others. Teenagers also listen to the words and the message that the artist is sending through their music. Teenagers that listen to music with a violent message begin to believe the message being sent by the artist. Television makes violence and even death seem funny and unreal.