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The Message in Music??
by WTWizard 15 Replies latest jw friends
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momzcrazy
momzcrazy,
Actually, I'm convinced, at almost 40, that I really damaged my hearing when I was younger from really cranking my music all the time. Maybe it is good advice?
Fortunately for his baby ears his version of noisy and mom's are very different. My husband's hearing is damaged too from too many years of standing in front of speakers at shows. My kids wear gun muffs whenever they go to concerts and will be closer to the stage than front house. They have them personalized with stickers. I prefer to be in the audience than backstage anyway.
Thanks for your concern!
momz
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brinjen
I do re-call at a district convention one year, a brother using Frank Sinatra's 'My Way' & Billy Joel's 'My Life' as examples of music that as a dub you shouldn't listen to (encourages that immortal sin 'Independent Thinking'). Can't re-call any others that were mentioned specifically.
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brinjen
A quick search on 'music' in the Watchtower 2007 CD found a couple of names...
Watchtower, 15th April 93 - Guard Against Unwholesome Music
Metal—Sex,Violence,andSatanismHeavy
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Another popular form of music is heavy metal. Heavy metal is more than high-decibel hard rock. Says a report in TheJournaloftheAmericanMedicalAssociation: "Heavy metal music . . . features a loud pulsating rhythm and abounds with lyrics that glorify hatred, abuse, sexual deviancy, and occasionally satanism." Why, the names alone of some of the more popular bands testify to the depravity of this brand of rock. They include such words as "poison," "guns," and "death." Yet, heavy metal seems fairly tame in comparison with thrash metal and death metal—fringe musical genres spawned by heavy metal. The names of these bands exploit terms like "cannibal" and "obituary." Youths in many lands may not realize how repulsive these names are because they are in English or another foreign language. Watchtower, 22nd February 93 - Can Music Really Hurt Me?
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Take heavy-metal music—a particularly noxious form of hard rock that is usually played at ear-splitting volume. Heavy-metal bands typically sport names like Poison, Skid Row, Guns N’ Roses, and Slayer. Time magazine said: "The band names alone conjure up images of mayhem, torture and death." The same can be said of the horrifying artwork that adorns the album covers and that often depicts satanic symbols.
But what about the music itself? It features such titles as "Flesh and Blood" and "Appetite for Destruction" and has lyrics that glorify sadomasochism, rape, and murder. So it is not surprising that the heavy-metal music guide StairwaytoHell calls heavy metal "a triumph of vulgarity, velocity, verbal directness, violent apathy." Heavy-metal music has also repeatedly been linked to drug abuse, Satanism, and suicide among its listeners. Yet, according to media reports, heavy metal is winning a growing mainstream audience.
Watchtower 22nd February 03 - Should I Watch Music Videos?
Chicago
magazine also describes a music video in which "a young man sitting at the counter in a diner leans his head back a little too far. A huge bloodred gash appears in his neck and the head falls off." Another video reportedly showed a man doing a gory striptease, during which he also removed his flesh and muscles. Other things too shocking to report were depicted.Not sure what video that one is.
Another video reportedly showed a man doing a gory striptease, during which he also removed his flesh and muscles. Other things too shocking to report were depicted.
That one has to be Robbie Williams 'Rock DJ'.
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WTWizard
That is one trick they have. They do not explicitly come up with the blacklist from the Watchtower Society. Instead, they list the characteristics of some popular songs. Then they wait until the hounder-hounders start coming up with their own lists--and the local hounders often come up with additional lists that will vary from one congregation to another. The members usually react by demonizing those "bad" songs, coming up with wacky names for the bands. That is one possible way that Knights In Satan's Service came about.
Music isn't the only thing they pull that trick with. Entertainment, as well as any "gray area", is fair game. They will not directly tell people not to do something. However, they will make guidelines that will move hounders and hounder-hounders to blacklist something on a local basis. That explains why some congregations may still have get-togethers, and some may allow certain styles of dress, grooming, music, and videos while another will be much stricter and disallow them.
Of course, the most common is the guilt trip. A song with questionable lyrics is in someone's collection. Now, they will tell that person that it has to go if they are to qualify for "privileges". Sometimes those blacklists are made up as they go. They also make specious arguments on the local case-by-case level about specific bands or albums, especially if they are becoming too popular. The usual reasoning is that it amounts to idolatry, but they really want people out in field circus instead of listening to music.
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brinjen
How's this one for a gem?
Music: Both rap and heavy metal music have recently come under increasing fire for similar content problems. Songs that glorify the sexual degradation and abuse of women, violence and hatred toward various races and policemen, and even Satanism have all been found among rap and heavy metal records. In some areas, records with such explicit material must carry warning labels. But as the rapper Ice-T reportedly admitted, he puts shocking lyrics in his songs just to earn such a label; it guarantees luring the curious. The rock star Prince sang the praises of brother-sister incest. Often, music videos simply give such crass immorality an added visual dimension. Pop star Madonna’s video JustifyMyLove won notoriety for portraying sadomasochism and homosexual activity. Even MTV, a U.S. TV channel known at times to broadcast immoral videos with little compunction, refused to air this one.
Awake 11/8 1992