My topic will be about the promotion of drugs in music and how it falsely glorifies their uses and sends the message to listeners who are primarily teenagers that drug use is a good thing. This will be a good topic to write on because the media, specifically music, glorifies the use of drugs which can lead to many teenagers trying drugs for the first time because the want to seem cool or be like their favorite artists.
My thesis will be: The glorification of drug use in music leads to many teenagers trying drugs for the first time thinking that it will make them cool and like their favorite artists.
Three sources I plan to use are a music video, Buckberry- Lit up. In the main chorus of this video, they repeat “I love the cocaine” and portray it as something good that everyone should do. For the second source I will use Pratts Self Reliance as a way to tell the readers that teenagers should be self reliance and not follow what their favorite artist do and say. I will use the general idea of that paper to let teenagers see that it’s important to be self reliant. I will also use quotes to point out specific examples and quotes to show how to go about it in the right way.
For the flow of the paper, I plan to first introduce the topic in the first paragraph and let the readers know what I’m talking about and what point I’m trying to make with this paper. Second I will talk about why drug use is bad in the first place and how it affects your health and life in a negative way. Third I will introduce how music persuades teenagers to take up drug use and in which ways it is done through. I will ten talk about how that in turn affects other people who don’t even listen to those songs. After that I will touch on ways to reduce and eliminate the promotion of drug use in songs. Followed by ways for teenaged to cope with the pressures of society to do these things and how to avoid getting sucked into a life if drug abuse. Towards the end I will tell those who have already been sucked into drug use the reasons to quit and what is the best way for them to go about trying to stop using drugs and get their life back on track.
Media: YouTube; Buckberry – Lit Up W/lyrics
