Posted on 12/23/2009 10:18:45 AM PST by a fool in paradise
Teens who listen to music that mentions marijuana are significantly more likely to use the drug, a new study finds.
The research was based on surveys with 959 ninth-graders.
"Students who listen to music with the most references to marijuana are almost twice as likely to have used the drug than their peers whose musical tastes favor songs less focused on substance use,"...
"Interestingly, we also found that exposure to marijuana in music was not associated with other high-risk behaviors, such as excessive alcohol consumption," Primack said. "This suggests that there is a real link between the marijuana lyrics and marijuana use."
Among the study participants, 12 percent identified themselves as current marijuana users, with 32 percent identifying themselves as having previously tried the substance. The researchers analyzed the content of songs that the students reported listening to.
The average participant listened to 21.8 hours of music per week and heard about 40 marijuana references in music per day...
(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...
So what does this imply about RAP?
What are the last 10 hip hop songs you listened too?
Your elders didn’t understand the fuss either because Artie Shaw sang nice songs.
That in some peoples’ minds, it IS music.
Hey, I got an idea for the Democrats > TAX IT
They may call it R&B music but that term was created in the 1940s for what had formerly been called “race records” (the music industry now calls such democraphic “urban” so the racist worldview remains strong as ever).
The music they play today sounds unlike “R&B”. Both may be “music” but then just call everything “music” since the labels no longer apply.
And Crunk was a word invented by Conan O’Brien in the early 1990s when he was looking for a “dirty” word that didn’t mean anything (when he first went on the air).
Silly me, and here I always though it was urban slang for crazy drunk!
(song samples here)
1. One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer - Amos Milburn
2. Groove Juice Special - Slim Gaillard
3. Bring Another Drink - Nat King Cole
4. Wine Wine Wine - Floyd Dixon
5. Cheap Old Wine & Whiskey - Jack Parker
6. Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee - Sticks McGhee
7. Atomic Cocktail - Slim Gaillard
8. Looped - Calvin Boze
9. Good, Good Whiskey - Amos Milburn
10. Bad Bad Whiskey - Amos Milburn
11. Let Me Go Home Whiskey - Amos Milburn
12. Bartender Is Like a Mother to Me - Slim Gaillard
13. One Mint Julep - The Clovers
14. All That Wine Is Gone - Big Jay McNeely
15. Wine-O-Wine - Willis Gator Jackson
16. Barfly Blues - Jimmy Witherspoon
17. Drinkin' and Thinkin' - Billy Wright
18. I Got Loaded - Peppermint Harris
19. Wine Drinker - The Orioles
20. Who Drank My Beer While I Was in the Rear - Dave Bartholomew
21. Juice Head Baby - Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson
22. Scotchin' with the Soda - Nat King Cole
23. Whiskey & Jelly-Roll Blues - Wynonie Harris
24. Mean Old Wine - Billy Wright
25. Pink Champagne [Live] - Joe Liggins
26. Drunk - Jimmy Liggins
27. Wino Blues - Floyd Dixon
28. What's the Use of Getting Sober When You're Going to Get Drunk Again - Louis Jordan
This is like those who make love like to listen to romantic music. So, people who listen to romantic music are more likely to make love. Yep!
Stop the presses! pmsnbc has finally arrived at 1967!
Except they didn’t find them drinking in excess.
Do people who listen to a lot of songs about chicken eat beef as much as they eat chicken? And you’d be surprised at how many songs there are about chickens (start with Chicken Necks, and The Greasy Chicken.... not sure if the Funky Chicken would count since it isn’t about EATING funky chicken).
It is a short sighted study to be sure.
Study finds link between MSM viewing and acceptance of green socialism.
LOL - Your findings have more merit!
The scientists probably found where they could buy some weed.
Round two of the study is to take a sample pool who have never smoked marijuana and see how they respond to a music list of 100 songs, with and without marijuana references, and load up their ipods.
Part of the sample pool will not smoke anything, part will smoke placebo, a portion will smoke tobacco, a portion will get pot, and a part will be given crack. All will be instructed to choose songs from the same list.
AH! Thats a terrifying thought!!!
paid for with a stimulus grant.
Didn’t think of rap and hip-hop, was thinking more of Deep Purple, Uriah Heep etc. If they did drug songs I’m unaware, but I’d be willing to bet they were few and far between. The only one I can remember was “Sweet Leaf” by Black Sabbath. Yes I’m telling my age, again.
The Beatles on the other hand....
She Said
Girl
Rain
and then there are the songs with passing references...
As a NON drug user, I don't listen or sing songs that glamorizes and glorifies mind altering drugs. You may want to adjust your “logic”. More bluntly, your "correlation" has been proven wrong in this study and in any other study. Be graceful about it and stop advertising your ignorance.
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