MUSIC AS A TOOL OF MIND CONTROL
William Sargent at the St Thomas’s hospital in London was one of the first doctors to write about the mechanisms of mind control in his book “Battle for the Mind”, identifying music as one of the tools that can be utilized against people in order to control their thoughts. Illegal drug use has become increasingly linked during this time and cocaine was detected to give way to rap lyrics in the early 1990s.
The associate professor Denise Herd in the division of Community Health and Human Development at the University of California, Berkeley’s School of Public Health examined the lyrics of 341 of the most popular rap songs since 1979 until 1997. Of the 38 most popular rap songs between 1979 and 1984, only four, or 11 percent, contained drug references. References can be drug mentions, behaviors and contexts surrounding the mention of drugs, as well as the attitudes and consequences stemming from illicit drug use. The study found that drug references in early rap songs – “White Lines” by Grandmaster Flash, “Crack Monster” by Kool Moe Dee and “Night of the Living Baseheads” by Public Enemy. She said that after rap albums celebrating marijuana use had started going platinum in the early 1990s, drug references became increasingly common in rap music, as if they were a key ingredient to success.
Dr. Brian Primack from the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Medicine, found that of Billboard’s 279 most popular songs in 2005, a staggering 77 percent of the 62 rap songs portrayed substance use. Country music came in a distant second to rap with 36 percent of songs referencing substance abuse. Lyrics have great effect on social norm. Associate professor P. Cougar Hall of Brigham Young University conducted a study published in 2012 that analyzed the sexual content of lyrics in Billboard Hot 100 songs. They discovered that instances of sexualization dramatically increased in lyrics during the ‘90s and 2000s. Sexually degrading lyrics were also found to be correlated with higher rates of sexual activity in adolescents.
SEXUAL MATTERS
CHOOSE THE RIGHT WORDS WITH EACH OF THEIR CONCISE DESCRIPTION
a. Showing excessive sexual desire
b. Showing excessive sexual drive
c. Showing strong sexual feeling
d. Arousing sexual desire
e. Crude and offensive in sex
f. Unprincipled in sexual matters
g. Overt and offensive sexual gesture
ANSWERS: a. leacherous b. libidious c. lustful d. lubricious e. lewd f. licentious g. lascivious
FILL IN THE BLANKS WITH THR CORRECT WORDS
1. Gyrating to the music goes with her __________ song.
2. His __________ gaze made her leave away.
3. ____________ lyric in that song have been censored.
4. Reading that book is said to result in ___________urges.
5. In the meeting nobody could detect his ____________wink at her.
6. Being ____________ takes place at looking at an extremely attractive model
7. That author used to write novels full of ____________ interactions of models.
ANSWERS: 1. lewd 2. leacherous 3. licentious 4. libidinous 5. lascivious 6. lustful 7. lubricious
DEEPLY SHOCKING
CHOOSE THE RIGHT WORDS WITH EACH OF THEIR CONCISE DESCRIPTION
a. Causing a deep shock
b. Causing an alarming shock
c. Impressing greatly
d. Causing confusion against expectation
e. Causing speechless confusion
f. Causing great surprise at an ability
g. Causing confusion in thinking clearly
h. Having a feeling of a wonder
i. Causing a temporary inability to react
j. Overcoming a great surprise
ANSWERS: a. startle b. stagger c. astonishing d. confound e. dumbfound f. astound g. stupefy h. amaze i. stun j. flabbergast
FILL IN THE BLANKS WITH THR CORRECT WORDS
1. The blast tragedy _____________most of the city residents.
2. A sudden noise in the doorway ____________the visitor
3. His ____________ failure has spread over the city for a while.
4. ___________economic figures are found in this analyst.
5. He looks too ____________ at her unfaithfulness.
6. His skill of bilingual translation __________everybody in the hall.
7. The ______________ increase in drug addicts shows its terrible impact on society
8. The news of this false flag attack left me totally _______________.
9. She ___________ the whole audience with the ability to play Bolero guitar sonatas.
10. The cover story confirmed what he said a liar in a _______________ way.
ANSWERS: 1. stunned 2. startled 3. astonishing 4. confounding 5. dumbfounded 6. amazes 7. staggering 8. flabbergasted 9. astounded 10. stupefying
