There was an article in a magazine I was reading about a man, named Sam McCroskey, involved in horrorcore music - people that rap about blood, killing, and violence - that killed his girlfriend, her parents, and her friend. The people that rapped about this stuff were involved in murders they committed for no apparent reason; just for "fun." It is said that some of these people admit that this music influenced them to commit these crimes.
"I hate to say this, but cases like Sam's bring attention to horrorcore. They're not good news by any means, but they bring new fans to the genre." - Mars, the spokesperson for the horrorcore label: SKR.
These people involved in the music did not care about the hurt they were supposedly causing; as long as they had the fans and made the money, they were happy.
"The online world was [Sam's] refuge, a "reality" far superior to the world he was forced to inhabit. [Sam] didn't have any true friends in his neighborhood, but he was popular online."
Sam was able to hide and make a new life through the internet. This shows that, on the internet, we could be whoever we want to be; people become addicted to being able to leave their own life and entering their own made up world on the web.
My questions: Can music really influence us to commit crimes? Have music labels and people become so careless as to where they only care about popularity and money? Has the internet made us able to create our own fake, perfect world?
Quotes from Maxim Magazine Article Pages 84-87 July 2010.
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"Can music really influence us to commit crimes?"
ReplyDeleteYes. Like TV, Video Games, and movies, music will have people that try to recreate it's contents.
"Have music labels and people become so careless as to where they only care about popularity and money?"
Indeed they have. It's been like that for a while now, actually. Most corporations are like that. As long as they make money, they're happy.
However, the degree to which this is true varies. An excellent example is the Tobacco Industry. their product is lethal, but they don't care. As long as they make money they don't care who their product kills.
"Has the internet made us able to create our own fake, perfect world?"
Perhaps the "perfect identity" would be the better term. But yes, it has allowed us to hide behind personas we fabricate. Hmm, how sad for those that do this.