Omime Davis
07/07/11
Project 2
Music videos influence on teenagers
As soon as the BET Awards were over, I started receiving lots of texts and calls from my friends. They were describing every single detail about the show. This made me realize that music video plays a major role in teenager’s lives. Every new video that hit the air wave become popular. It seems like the day after a video is shown everyone knows the dance moves to it. Music videos play a great role in influencing teenager’s behavior in the American society by affecting their physical and mental health. Music videos inspire teens to become entertainers. However, it also affects the behavior in must. Just a few years back, it was easier to keep away certain television station from teens. By the advancement in today’s technology it is easier for them to access just about anything. Music videos are very beneficial for teenagers. Music videos help keeps up with teen physical and mental health, as well as being an inspiration to them. However, music videos are becoming too exclusive for teens to listen and watch. Producers and music artist should keep in concentration there viewers are not only adults but teens as well.
Teenagers are a group of people that are not adults but not far from becoming one. Teens are at the stage of live where they figuring everything out. They are developing some kind of self identity. We are very moody at time and tend to make life changing decision. According to Wikipedia, a teenage is the transitional stage of physical and mental human development. A music video is a film that last about four to five minute long that included singing and dancing throughout that time. Music videos are designed to capture the attention of the audience by song.
The history of music video is important because it effect teens in many ways. Music videos have come a long way in time and young people don’t realize the impact that it makes on their day to day lives. According to slide share which receive most of it information from Wikipedia the first type of video was invented in 1941, a new invention hits clubs and bars in the USA called the Panoram Soundie which is a jukebox that plays short video clips along with the music. In 1956, Hollywood discovers the genre of music-centered films. A wave of rock and roll films begins (Rock around the Clock, Don and Knock the Rock, Shake, Rattle and Rock, Rock Pretty Baby, The Girl Can and Help It, and the famous Elvis Presley movies). Some of these films integrated musical performances into a story, others were simply revues. 1960: In France a re-invention of the Soundie, the Scopitone, gains limited success. 1962: British Television invents a new form of music television. Shows like Top of the Pops, Ready! Steady! Go! And Oh, Boy started as band vehicles and became huge hits. 1964: The US-Television market adapts the format. Hullabaloo is one of the first US shows of this kind, followed by Shindig! (NBC) and American Bandstand; The Beatles star in A Hard Day and Night.
Teenagers listen to an average of nearly 2.5 hour of music per day. Guess what they’re hearing? One in three popular video contain explicit references to drug and alcohol usage according to a new report in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. That means kids are receiving about 35 references to substance abuse for every hour of music they listen to, the authors determined. While songs about drugs and excess are nothing new, the issue is getting more attention because so many teens now have an MP3 player or a compact disc player in their bedrooms. Studies have long shown that media messages have a pronounced impact on childhood risk behavior. Exposure to image of smoking in videos influences a teens risk for picking up a smoking habit. Alcohol use in videos and promotions also links to actual alcohol use.
According to Sid Kirchheimer article on the study “association found between video viewing time and risky behavior,” finds after studying 522 black girls between the ages of 14 and 18 from non-urban, lower socioeconomic neighborhoods, researchers found that compared to those who never or rarely watched these videos, the girls who viewed these gangster videos for at least 14 hours per week were far more likely to practice numerous destructive behaviors. Over the course of the one-year study, they were: Three times more likely to hit a teacher, Over 2.5 times more likely to get arrested Twice as likely to have multiple sexual partners, 1.5 times more likely to get a sexually transmitted disease, use of drugs, or drink alcohol.
Music video has a major effect on teen mental and physical growth. Studies shows on an average day teens watch about five hour of television and must of that time is spent on music videos. After interview Caria Alderson on this study I received a lot of information that help me figures out the development of teens. I asked Caria a series of question but the question on how music video changes her mental health become an eye focuser. Music videos changed her life by casting out all negative energy. Caria stated “when I’m sitting in front of the TV screen watching music videos everything become clear to me. It drives me to a better place in my life. It helps me develop my own staff identity and puts my mind at peace. Music videos changed my total outlook of life because the people in them seem so happy and driven and I know that be hide the screen that it not that simple.” On the flip side, music video helps teens stay physically active. Teens can work physical activity into everyday routines, such as dancing to the music. Teen might also feel more comfortable doing home exercise so videos can help them with a guide line with movements.
Music becomes an inspiration for most teenagers. All throughout my high school, I wanted to be just like Beyonce. Beyonce haves a drive that shows the every movement that she makes and that become very inspiring to me. This made me want to become an entertainer. I wanted to fan, the new car, Hollywood and all other thing that can with stardom. Still today, you have young people they think the same about their favorite music artist which make the difference in one’s life. Music videos can inspire just by the different was people chose to live there life. This makes it easy for someone to identify their self with their favorite artists.
In conclusion, music videos really benefits teen’s growth as an identity. It helps them determine who they are as a person and effects their mental development. It becomes an inspiration for most and shows a physical change in most. However, I think that all music producers, artist and most importantly parents should watch what they’re eyes and keep in concentration what’s good for them. We have the most influence over teen’s life. We also have the ability to make a difference in their lives. They pick up every little thing they see and here. Parents you have the overall control of your teen. Most of the music artists out here are role models for teens. So as a role model does you really want teens to here all the proactive things that you allow to be played on the radio. Keep the teens in mind please. As Michael Sherman and David Brittan said in the article of “ the influence of music and Rock videos,” the parents can help their teenager by paying attention to their teenagers purchasing, listening and viewing patterns, and by helping them identify music that may be destructive.
Works Cited
2010, Late November. "Music Videos." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Web. 05 July 2011. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/musicvideos
Alderson, Caria. Interview; inspiration of music videos. 05 July 03, 2011
Kirchheimer, Sid. Article: “Study Association Found Between Video View Time And Risky Behavior.” Web. 06 July 4 2011. http://www.webmd.com/baby/news/20030303/does-rap-put-teens-at-risk
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