20 Best Angry Love Songs

In the spirit of it recently being Valentine's Day I found this great list of the 20 Best Angry Love songs, Obviously by the title of this blog. Nothing wrong with some angry Guitar Music. Speaking of violence, Lily Allen's video smile is all about her hurting her cheating boyfriend. So maybe not all violent songs need to be directed at women but I wonder if this is a new phenomenon? I wish I could find some statics on the percentage of songs about violence towards women and the songs about violence to men through time, and see if the levels are increasing and in which direction. Also, as women become more empowered is it then natural that the inclination toward expressing violence in general and through music would increase? That would be unfortunate.

Lily Allen Smile
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Baby Bitch- I think should have made the list
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http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2007/06/25/the-20-best-angry-love-songs-ever/

Dreamworlds 3 Desire Sex and Power in Music Video

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Attached is a link to documentary that talks about how music video teaches us about gender roles. It is really sad, I haven't seen the entire full length video, but you can see how violence is so entrenched in modern music, and violence against women in particular. If people are reduced to sexual object then they cease to be human, and therefore what is done to them is o.k. I have been out many times and have strangers come up and grab me in some way, men of all ages. And the thing is what is happening to me is not unique. I think it is the acceptance and complacency toward violence against women that is the most upsetting.

Even reading the YouTube comments on this is frustrating, I have posted a portion of one below.

"I have never been raped because I don't act like I want to have sex with everybody."

Comments like that are stupid and are also a huge part of the problem, though unfortunatley comments like that are also not unique.

Music Violence & the Devil

I found the attached article that speaks about the correlation between Rock Music & Violence and satanism as well. The article was published in 1991 and I think that has a bit to do with it. To me the idea of satanic music leading to violence is a circular argument, does the music make someone violent or is a violent society reflected in the music? If a troubled person hears some music and decides to go hurt someone I don't know that the music is to blame, any more than the barking dog was to blame for The Summer of Sam.

However, that being said, what is our obsession with glorifying violence?
"One study revealed that of the 700 most popular songs of "heavy metal," 50% speak of killings, 35% of satanism and 7% about suicide. Sheila Davis, professor of lyric writing at New York University, is convinced that "better give serious attention to the content of pop songs and to evaluate not only what lyrics are saying to society but, more important, what they may be doing to it" (USA Today, October 11, 1985, p. 10)."

If the statistics are true, doesn't it prove that there is a problem, especially considering that there is such a market for violent music?


http://www.orthodoxphotos.com/readings/rock/violence.shtml

Violence in Music

I think we live in a society that in many ways is more peaceful than that of our ancestors but still the threat of violence is always there. I notice it anytime I am walking by a woman at night. You can tell that she is worried about who is walking behind her and you can see she is wondering if she is going to be attacked. Not that it happens so often that we should be as worried as we are but even now in these modern times, the advice is to stay away from dark alleys at night, go in groups, lock your doors, always be on the look out ready to defend yourself etc. because you never know who will be out there. It is sort of sad that we have half of the population living in fear and essentially told to guard themselves by staying indoors. In many ways we have about the same amount of freedoms as our ancestors. I think of all of the women I have been close to that have had some sort of violence done to them by a stranger or a friend and it is almost all. We do live in a violent society and this violence is reflected in music. I have attached two pictures. The first picture shows Jack Ruby getting shot by Lee Harvey Oswald. The
2nd picture has an image that is on a popular t-shirt. Oswald's gun has been replaced by a guitar and Jack Ruby has been given a microphone. The Oswald Band is born. It is sort of horrible that the image has been altered this way, but I think it relects how we view violence, as entertainment and it shows the link between the two.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Harvey_Oswald