ON WINGS OF SONG Sex, Drugs, Vulgarity - Clayton D Steep - September 1980

Clayton D Steep

Far too many of today's songs advocate obscenity, premarital sex, illicit sex, drugs, the occult, even revolution. Most caring parents would be shocked if they knew what their children are being told to do-all to the sound of music! Public and parental pressures, we are told, keep deviant films and books from impressionable children and young people. But no matter. Corrupting influences reach them anyway-by means of little transistor radios, live concerts and recorded music, available to any person, any age. You doubt it? Then consider the lyrics of a few currently listed popular Remember, music is a powerful medium. It works on moods and emotions. It can stir to action as mere spoken words cannot do. Listen to these messages pumped into millions of eager young ears in hi–fi sound-and ask yourself if these have anything to do with the rise in crime, the confused morals and consequent venereal diseases of so many young people: - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library