It’s hard to assert the case that music is
detrimental to youth anymore. From Elvis to
gangsta rap and beyond, parents have sought to pin a litany of problems on our favorite pop stars (drug use, Satanism, and wanton violence, to name a few) even though no reputable scientific research has shown these fears to be merited.

Of course, you’ve read the title of the article,
and you probably know full well that a case
being difficult to make has never once
stopped anyone from doing it anyway.
Helpfully, plenty of scientific research has
shown that:

9. Pop Stars Endorse Terrible, Unhealthy Products
It’s safe to say that Kanye West and Katy
Perry aren’t actually trying to entice you into
a lifestyle of hedonism and debauchery. They
just know what sells records, and they’re
fond of selling a lot of them. Records never
hurt anybody, but junk food has, and most
pop stars are equally fond of selling a lot of
that, too.

8. Hearing Damage In Teens Is Growing
While teenagers have always preferred their
music loud, it appears that the recent advent
of ubiquitous portable music devices is
making it easier than ever for them to cause
permanent damage to their hearing.



7. Sad Music Can Increase Anxiety and Neuroses
Finnish researchers are very, very interested
in the effect of music on the brain, having
conducted multiple studies over the last
couple of decades showing with relative
certainty that emotions can be regulated
effectively with the use of music in therapy. A 2015 study wanted to better understand if
listening to music on your own can be a form
of “self-regulation,” and in a complete
bummer of a finding, it concluded that
listening to sad music all the time can indeed
have a negative effect on mental health.

They reached this conclusion by exposing subjects to music of different kinds while undergoing MRI testing, examining which areas of the brain were activated by which cues, and following up with psychological testing.


6. Music Disrupts Studying and Work Performance

At any rate, subjects were found to have
performed the most poorly when listening to
music—any music, whether they liked it or
not. They performed best in silence .


5. Listening While Driving Is Dangerous
While anecdotal evidence to support this
conclusion can be readily provided by anyone
who has ever narrowly avoided a collision
while air-drumming to a certain Phil Collins
song, there is some pretty convincing science
to back it up.

In 2004, a Canadian team
looked at reaction time in test subjects while
in noisy environments, slowly increasing the
level of the noise. They found that at 95
decibels—well below the 110 decibel average
maximum of a car stereo—reaction time
decreased by 20 percent, an incredibly
significant percentage when operating a 2-ton vehicle at high speeds.


4. Repetition, Repetition, Repetition
To say that pop music all sounds the same
would be to repeat a refrain that has changed very little from generation to generation for decades.



3. Pop Music Might Erode Your Creative Intelligence
You may be aware of recent analysis showing
that the average reading level of pop music
lyrics has steadily declined in recent years to
just below a third-grade level.

Analyst Virgil Griffith helpfully chipped in with a chart showing the average SAT scores of popular music fans relative to who their favorite artists were.

The combined results suggest
what you must expect by now: Fans of pop
music tend to be less creative (and, oddly,
less at ease with themselves) than fans of
genres with more musical variety.



2 Music Can Negatively Affect Your Relationships
Sexual imagery in popular music and videos
has long been ubiquitous, but the fact that
teenagers like to listen to music and also like
to have sex certainly doesn’t suggest
anything Earth-shaking.

A 2006 study of
almost 1,500 teens found, however, that teens who heavily listen to music featuring such subject matter are more likely to start having sex earlier than those who do not, by a margin of almost two to one.

The study’s authors found that the pervasive message in such music—that of studly, carefree men and subservient, sex object women—is reinforced even if it isn’t closely paid attention to, opining, “We think that [it] really lowers kids’ inhibitions and makes them less thoughtful,” in terms of their decisions.


1 Songs About Growing Old Might Make You Die Sooner
In what must have been the single most
depressing study of its kind to conduct,
researchers from the Anglia Rustin University
in Cambridge, England, analyzed 76 songs
that invoke the topic of aging.

It was found, of course, that the average sentiments expressed toward the subject are
overwhelmingly negative, generally
associating growing old with such heartwarming concepts as frailty, dependence, loneliness, and death.

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stivin101:
Did u take this from listverse cause I have read d same thing..

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