Essay On Relatable Music Influence

Relatable Music Influences

Hate is such a popular thing presently that it is everywhere: schools, radios, TVs, music, etc. People even hate on each other and themselves. Why is it that at least one million people in the U.S. inflict harm upon themselves? Why is suicide the third leading cause of death? Why is it that only 36% of kids bullied have told someone about it while the other 64% haven’t? There must be a reason all of these people have so much revulsion in themselves that they would want to kill themselves and leave this world and the people that care about them. Estimates of three hundred and fifty million people suffer from depression. Depression is a very difficult subject to talk to loved ones about. It clouds people’s minds and makes them think the worst of possible circumstances. They want to talk about it, but they are convinced that other people have bigger and more important problems than their own. They drown themselves in their own mind until it overtakes them and destroys them.

However some of the music, the way it’s relatable, isn’t always applicable in the right ways. Bands like Three Days Grace, Motionless in White, Korn, Bring me the Horizon, and more have songs that strike a cord of depression, suicide, and hopelessness. For example, Three Days Grace has a song called “Pain” which has lyrics like, “Pain, without love/ Pain, can’t get enough/ Pain, I like it rough/ ‘Cause I’d rather feel pain than nothing at all” and “Anger and agony are better than misery”. These lyrics can affect a person drastically because so many are self-harming and hating themselves. Lyrics can change a person’s mindset so easily and the wrong kind can lead a person to the