In another apparent attempt to tell us what we already know, The University of Pittsburgh spent money to study if music lyrics contained references to drug, alcohol and tobacco. The results are very not shocking…music lyrics of today’s most popular music do in fact reference drugs, alcohol and tobacco (DAT). In fact, according to the study (or as I like to call it a waste of time), two thirds of the references put the DAT in a positive light. Kids these days, it turns out, hear over 30,000 references a year to drugs, alcohol and tobacco. Rap and Country have a higher percentage than other genres of music…another big shocker there. In order to qualify as rap the “song” has to talk about getting drunk (or high) and beating your woman…for country to qualify as a song it has to talk about getting drunk and loving your dog more than your woman. Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. William 1…Rap and Country 0.
Seeing how I am a big fan of list, I figured I would jot down a few things that I feel would have been a better use of the money that was spent to “study” this cultural phenomenon (lets assume the “study” cost $100,000…that is the going rate for pointless University studies).
