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Policy Statement—Impact of Music, Music Lyrics, and
Music Videos on Children and Youth
                                                                                   COUNCIL ON COMMUNICATIONS AND MEDIA
abstract                                                                           KEY WORDS
                                                                                   music, lyrics, music videos, adolescents, violence
Music plays an important role in the socialization of children and ado-
lescents. Popular music is present almost everywhere, and it is easily             This document is copyrighted and is property of the American
                                                                                   Academy of Pediatrics and its Board of Directors. All authors
available through the radio, various recordings, the Internet, and new             have filed conflict of interest statements with the American
technologies, allowing adolescents to hear it in diverse settings and              Academy of Pediatrics. Any conflicts have been resolved through
situations, alone or shared with friends. Parents often are unaware of             a process approved by the Board of Directors. The American
                                                                                   Academy of Pediatrics has neither solicited nor accepted any
the lyrics to which their children are listening because of the increas-           commercial involvement in the development of the content of
ing use of downloaded music and headphones. Research on popular                    this publication.
music has explored its effects on schoolwork, social interactions,
mood and affect, and particularly behavior. The effect that popular
music has on children’s and adolescents’ behavior and emotions is of
paramount concern. Lyrics have become more explicit in their refer-
ences to drugs, sex, and violence over the years, particularly in certain
genres. A teenager’s preference for certain types of music could be
correlated or associated with certain behaviors. As with popular mu-
sic, the perception and the effect of music-video messages are impor-
tant, because research has reported that exposure to violence, sexual
messages, sexual stereotypes, and use of substances of abuse in mu-                www.pediatrics.org/cgi/doi/10.1542/peds.2009-2145
sic videos might produce significant changes in behaviors and atti-                 doi:10.1542/peds.2009-2145
tudes of young viewers. Pediatricians and parents should be aware of               All policy statements from the American Academy of Pediatrics
this information. Furthermore, with the evidence portrayed in these                automatically expire 5 years after publication unless reaffirmed,
studies, it is essential for pediatricians and parents to take a stand             revised, or retired at or before that time.

regarding music lyrics. Pediatrics 2009;124:1488–1494                              PEDIATRICS (ISSN Numbers: Print, 0031-4005; Online, 1098-4275).
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INTRODUCTION
Music plays an important role in the socialization of children and adoles-
cents.1–3 Listening to popular music is considered by society to be a part of
growing up.2 Music provides entertainment and distraction from prob-
lems and serves as a way to relieve tension and boredom. Some studies
have reported that adolescents use popular music to deal with loneliness
and to take control of their emotional status or mood.2,4 Music also can
provide a background for romance and serve as the basis for establishing
relationships in diverse settings.2 Adolescents use music in their pro-
cess of identity formation,4–11 and their music preference provides
them a means to achieve group identity and integration into the
youth culture.5,7–9,12,13 Some authors have suggested that popular mu-
sic provides adolescents with the means to resolve unconscious conflicts
related to their particular developmental stage2,7,12,14 and that their music
preference might reflect the level of turmoil of this stage.14–17
Adolescents’ choice of music and their reactions to and interpretations of
it vary with age, culture, and ethnicity.2,13,14,18–25 Research has shown that

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there also is a difference in these vari-        with 100 fourth- through sixth-graders       cuity, death, homicide, suicide, and
ables between the genders.25 Female ad-          revealed that 98% of these children lis-     substance abuse.9,13,17,43,45,46–53 Most re-
olescents are more likely than male ado-         tened to popular music, 72% of them          cently, some rap music has been char-
lescents to use music to reflect their            on “most days” or every day.30 Further-      acterized by the presence of explicit
emotional state, in particular when feel-        more, it has been reported that children     sexual language in its lyrics as well as
ing lonely or “down.”2,26,27 Male adoles-        8 to 10 years of age listen to music an      messages of violence, racism, homo-
cents, on the other hand, are more likely        average of 1 hour per day.25 With many       phobia, and hatred toward wom-
to use music as a stimulant, as a way to         children and adolescents listening on        en.9,10,42,54 Drug, tobacco, and alcohol
“boost” their energy level, or to create a       iPods or other devices using head-           use also tend to be glorified in these
more positive image of themselves.2,4,26         phones, parents may have little knowl-       songs.
To understand the importance of                  edge of what their children are listening    In refuting concerns about the effect of
music in the life of adolescents, a              to.                                          lyrics, some have argued that children
survey performed in the early 1990s of           Research on popular music has ex-            and adolescents use music only for en-
2760 American adolescents aged 14                plored several areas such as its ef-         tertainment, that little or no attention
through 16 years revealed that they lis-         fects on schoolwork,31 social interac-       is paid to the words, and if any atten-
tened to music an average of 40 hours            tions, mood and affect,20,26,27,32,33 and    tion is given, understanding tends to
per week.28 In another study in 2000,            particularly behavior.10,11,34–36 Several    be limited and related to the experi-
North et al4 found that a sample of 2465         theories have been developed to ex-          ences lived by the listener.32,55 How-
adolescents in England reported lis-             plain the relationship between music         ever, other studies have demonstrated
tening to music for an average of 2.45           and behavior,15,37,38 and a number of        the contrary.56 Approximately 17% of
hours per day. On a study performed in           studies have demonstrated that there         male adolescents and 25% of female
2005 to assess media use of 8- to 18-            is a relationship between music and          adolescents expressed that they liked
year-olds in the United States, Roberts          emotions, regardless of age.20,23,27,39–41   their favorite songs specifically be-
et al25 reported that on a given day,            Although the emotional response to           cause the lyrics were a reflection of
85% of 8- to 18-year-olds listen to mu-          music depends on the way it is pre-          their feelings.2 Also, it has been found
sic. Although time devoted to listening          sented, it is also true that it is closely   that the more importance adolescents
to music varies with age group, Amer-            related to the age of the listener and       give to a certain type of music, the
ican youth listen to music from 1.5 to           the experiences or preconceived              more attention they will pay to the
2.5 hours per day. Still, a study per-           ideas they bring to the music.2,14,39        lyrics.2,55,57,58 Furthermore, Knobloch-
formed with a small sample of at-risk            The effect that popular music has on         Westerwick et al have stated that al-
youth revealed an average of up to 6.8           children’s and adolescents’ behavior         though young listeners might not un-
hours of music-listening per day.29 Fur-         and emotions is of paramount con-            derstand all the details in lyrics, they
thermore, Roberts et al found that 33%           cern.40 There is particular concern          recognize enough to obtain a general
of those listening to music did so while         related to the lyrics of some genres         idea of the message they bring.11
performing other tasks or activities.            of music and their effect on children        Regarding the effects of popular music
These data support the idea that the             and adolescents.3,10,11,42–45                on behavior, several studies have dem-
prevalence of music-listening in ado-            Lyrics have become more explicit in          onstrated that preference for certain
lescents may be even higher than that                                                         types of music could be correlated or
                                                 their references to drugs, sex, and vio-
of television viewing. The reason for                                                         associated with certain behaviors,*
                                                 lence over the years.11 A content anal-
this is that popular music is present                                                         such as the association of drug and
                                                 ysis of the top 10 CDs performed by the
almost everywhere, from the super-                                                            alcohol use with “rave” music or elec-
                                                 National Institute on Media in 1999 re-
market to the mall, often as back-                                                            tronic music dance events.13,50,51,62 Rob-
                                                 vealed that each of these CDs included
ground music. It also is easily available                                                     erts et al39 performed a study in 1997
                                                 at least 1 song with sexual content.
through the radio, various recordings,                                                        at an adolescent clinic, and their re-
                                                 Forty-two percent of the songs on
the Internet, and new technologies,11,25                                                      sults suggested that probably the best
                                                 these CDs contained very explicit sex-
allowing adolescents to hear it in di-                                                        predictor of risk in adolescents re-
                                                 ual content.46 Lyrics of some music
verse settings and situations, alone or                                                       lated to music is their self-report of
                                                 genres, such as rock, heavy metal, rap,
shared with friends.                                                                          negative feelings or emotions when lis-
                                                 and new emerging genres such as reg-
                                                                                              tening to any type of music. The au-
Adolescents are not the only young               gaeton, have been found to revolve
consumers of popular music. A study              around topics such as sexual promis-         *Refs 2, 10, 17, 29, 37, 39, 42, and 59 – 65.

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thors of that study described an asso-         formed in 1999 with a sample of 345             perception and the effect of music-
ciation between negative emotional             mothers from public schools revealed            video messages on children and ado-
response to music and risk-taking be-          that 47% of the mothers believed that           lescents is related to the age and de-
haviors and even suggested that what           violent messages in rap music contrib-          velopmental and emotional stage of
triggers risky behavior in some ado-           ute to school violence70; yet, according        the viewer, as well as the level of
lescents is the negative emotional re-         to a 2007 report from the Kaiser Family         exposure.
sponse rather than the type of music.          Foundation on parents, children, and            The prevalence of music-video–
Scheel and Westefeld61 supported this          the media,44 only 9% of parents re-             watching has been studied in both the
suggestion in 1999. Heavy metal and            vealed being concerned about inap-              United States and Europe.30,79,90,92,94 A
some rock music have been associ-              propriate content in music.                     study of 100 fourth- to sixth-graders
ated in some studies with an increased         The preference for heavy metal music,           revealed that 75% of them watched
risk of suicide.17,61,63,66,67 Fans of heavy   rap, and associated genres among                music videos, with 60% of them self-
metal music have been reported in the          adolescents must alert us to an in-             describing their frequency of viewing
literature to have more problems with          creased vulnerability and tendency to-          videos as either “pretty much” or “a
school authorities and teachers than           ward risky behaviors. Adolescents at            lot.” Of these children, 62% watched
students who are not fans of that type         risk and with a feeling of alienation be-       music videos either “most days” or “ev-
of music.2 Heavy metal music-listening         cause of previous failures or problems          ery day,” and 7% watched them even
has also been associated with in-              tend to prefer these types of music,            before going to school.30 In 2003, a re-
creased depression, delinquency risk           which might reflect their pessimistic            port of the Kaiser Family Foundation90
behavior,63–65 smoking, and conduct            view of life and the world.2,9,14,17,19,37,71   revealed that 3 of 4 of those in the 16-
problems.60 Fans of heavy metal and            Correlational studies, however, have            to 24-year-old group watch MTV, 58%
rap music showed a greater tendency            inherent limitations and cannot iden-           watch it at least once a week, and 20%
to engage in reckless behavior than            tify cause-and-effect relationships, but        watch it for an hour or more every day.
their peers who were not fans of those         the associations reflect the status of           More recently, a study revealed that a
types of music.2,14,37,68 A study per-         the current research.                           sample of 12- to 15-year-olds watched
formed to explore the possible effect          Research related to music and its ef-           music videos on an average of 4.3 days
of heavy metal music containing either         fects on children and adolescents has           per week.92
sexually violent or nonviolent lyrics on       been expanded into another expres-              Research on music videos has been fo-
males’ attitudes toward women re-              sion of popular music: the music video.         cused mainly on content analyses. A
vealed that those exposed to heavy             Music videos are appealing to children          study published in 1997 by DuRant et
metal music, with either sexually vio-         and adolescents. Considering that mu-           al76,82 described an analysis of 518 mu-
lent or nonviolent lyrics, showed sig-         sic videos mix 2 media that are attrac-         sic videos on 4 television networks
nificantly more negative stereotyped            tive to youth (television and popular           (MTV, VH1, CMT, and BET). This study
attitudes toward women than those in           music), it is important to study their          revealed that the percentage of vio-
a group instead exposed to classical           effects on a young audience and to              lence in music videos ranged from
music.2,69 Likewise, in a study per-           be concerned about the messages                 11.5% to 22.4%, with the most violent
formed by Fischer and Greitemeyer,42           these music videos promote.30,72 Mu-            videos having been presented on MTV.
men who listened to misogynistic lyr-          sic videos have been widely stud-               When analyzed according to type of
ics showed increased aggressive re-            ied.29,30,55,72–93 They are mainly classified    music, rap videos had the highest por-
sponses toward women as well as a              as either performance or concept vid-           trayal of violence (20.4%), closely fol-
more negative perception of them.              eos. For a performance video, an artist         lowed by rock videos (19.8%). Using
In a study in which adolescents who            or a group is filmed during a perfor-            the same sample, another study re-
preferred heavy metal and rap music            mance, usually a concert. Concept vid-          vealed that although the percentage of
were compared with those who pre-              eos, on the other hand, tell the viewer a       videos that portrayed alcohol use
ferred other types of music, results in-       story that may or may not evolve from           showed no significant differences
dicated that the former consistently           the song. This story may sometimes              among networks, the percentage por-
showed below-average current and el-           add content to the lyrics and provide a         trayed was still significant, ranging
ementary school grades, with a history         particular interpretation that is rein-         from 18.7% to 26.9%. Of the networks,
of counseling in elementary school for         forced every time the viewer hears the          MTV had the highest percentage of al-
academic problems.14 A study per-              song.72,73,75 As with popular music, the        cohol representation and also the

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highest percentage of videos that por-                     of seventh- and eighth-grade boys,           issue. Therefore, the following recom-
trayed smoking behaviors (25.7%). Of                       watching music videos and profes-            mendations are made.
these videos, rap music videos showed                      sional wrestling was associated with          1. Pediatricians should become fa-
a higher content of alcohol or tobacco                     an increased acceptance of date rape.            miliar with the role of music in the
use than did other types of videos.75 In                   A survey performed among 214 adoles-             lives of children and adolescents
1998, Rich et al82 reported on the find-                    cents revealed that there was an asso-           and identify music preferences of
ings of content analyses that looked for                   ciation between music-video–watching             their patients as clues to emo-
gender or race differences in aggres-                      and permissive sexual behaviors.76 It            tional conflict or problems.99
sors or victims of acts of violence por-                   has also been reported that after
                                                                                                         2. Pediatricians should become fa-
trayed in the same sample of 518 music                     watching MTV, adolescents’ attitudes
                                                                                                            miliar with the literature avail-
videos. The analyses showed that black                     were more accepting of premarital
                                                                                                            able on the effects of music and
individuals were overrepresented as ag-                    sex.52,53,80 A survey performed among
                                                                                                            music videos on children and
gressors (25%) and as victims (41%),                       2760 American adolescents demon-
                                                                                                            adolescents.36,38,100–103
compared with the percentage of black                      strated that listening to music and
individuals in the general population                      watching television and music videos          3. Pediatricians should explore with
(12%). Studies performed by Smith and                      more frequently was associated with              patients and their parents what
Boyson in 200293 and Gruber et al in                       increased risky behaviors68 and alco-            types of music they listen to and
200591 validated these findings.                            hol use85,86; these results were vali-           music videos they watch and un-
Analysis of the content in music videos                    dated by van den Bulck and Beullens,94           der which circumstances they
is important, because research has                         who demonstrated a longitudinal rela-            consume these media.
reported that exposure to violence,                        tionship between adolescents’ expo-           4. Pediatricians should encourage
sexual messages, sexual stereotypes,                       sure to music videos and alcohol use             parents to take an active role in
and use of substances of abuse in mu-                      while going out to a bar, party, disco,          monitoring the type of music to
sic videos might produce significant                        etc. In 2003, Wingwood et al89 reported          which their children and adoles-
changes in behaviors and attitudes of                      on a study in which 522 black female             cents are exposed and to be aware
young viewers.† Frequent watching of                       adolescents with a median exposure to            of the music they purchase.104–106
music videos has been related to an                        rap music videos of 14 hours per week            Parents can find lyrics by typing
increased risk of developing beliefs in                    were followed for 12 months. After               “music lyrics” into an Internet
false stereotypes and an increased                         controlling for all the covariates,              search engine and accessing 1 or
perceived importance of appearance                         greater exposure to rap music videos             more of the Web sites that appear.
and weight in adolescent girls.83 In                       was independently associated with a              Pediatricians also should counsel
studies performed to assess the reac-                      wide variety of risky behaviors such as          parents and caregivers to monitor
tions of young males exposed to violent                    increased promiscuity and use of                 and regulate television-viewing
rap music videos or sexist videos, par-                    drugs and alcohol, among others. Of              according to the age and maturity
ticipants reported an increased prob-                      importance, a study performed by Aus-            of their children and adolescents.
ability that they would engage in vio-                     tin et al98 in 2000 revealed that the po-
                                                                                                         5. Pediatricians should encourage
lence, a greater acceptance of the use                     tential risks of exposure to music vid-
                                                                                                            parents and caregivers to become
of violence, and a greater acceptance                      eos can be moderated by parental
                                                                                                            media literate.
of the use of violence against women                       reinforcement and counterreinforce-
                                                           ment of conducts observed.                    6. Pediatricians should sponsor and
than did participants who were not ex-
                                                                                                            participate in local and national
posed to these videos.29,35,77,78,92
                                                           RECOMMENDATIONS                                  coalitions to discuss the effects of
In 1999 Kalof84 reported that college                                                                       music on children and adoles-
                                                           The American Academy of Pediatrics
students who were exposed to videos                                                                         cents to make the public and par-
                                                           understands that, given the findings
with stereotyped sexual images                                                                              ents aware of sexually explicit,
                                                           presented and our knowledge of child
showed more acceptance of adver-                                                                            drug-oriented, or violent lyrics on
                                                           and adolescent development, pediatri-
sarial relationships than those who                                                                         CDs and cassettes, in music vid-
                                                           cians and parents should be aware of
were not exposed. Kaestle et al92                                                                           eos, on the Internet, and in emerg-
                                                           this information. Furthermore, with
reported in 2007 that in a group                                                                            ing technologies.
                                                           the evidence portrayed in these stud-
†Refs 29, 35, 52, 53, 68, 72, 76 –78, 80, 85, 89, 92 and   ies, it is essential for pediatricians and    7. The public, and parents in particu-
94 –97.                                                    parents to take a stand regarding this           lar, should be aware of and use

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the music industry’s parental ad-                     stinence, pregnancy prevention,                 Holly L. Falik, MD
       visory warning of explicit content.                   and avoidance of promiscuity.                   Kathleen G. Nelson, MD
                                                                                                             Gwen S. O’Keefe, MD
       The advisory label is a black-and-             10. Further research on the effects of                 Victor C. Strasburger, MD
       white logo and should be located                   popular music, lyrics, and music                   FORMER EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
       on the front of the CD, cassette,                  videos on children and adoles-                     MEMBERS
       album, videocassette, or DVD. It                   cents is important and should be                   *M. Rosario González de Rivas, MD
       may help protect children from                     conducted.107                                      Regina M. Milteer, MD
       certain offensive materials.                                                                          Donald L. Shifrin, MD

 8. Performers should serve as posi-                  COUNCIL ON COMMUNICATIONS AND                          LIAISONS
                                                      MEDIA EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE,                             Michael Brody, MD – American Academy of
    tive role models for children and                                                                          Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
    teenagers.                                        2008 –2009
                                                                                                             Brian Wilcox, PhD – American Psychological
                                                      Gilbert L. Fuld, MD, Chairperson                         Association
 9. The music-video industry should                   Deborah A. Mulligan, MD, Chairperson-Elect
    produce videos with more positive                 Tanya Remer Altmann, MD                                STAFF
    themes about relationships, racial                Ari Brown, MD                                          Veronica Laude Noland
                                                      Dimitri Christakis, MD                                 Gina Ley Steiner
    harmony, drug avoidance, nonvio-                  Kathleeen Clarke-Pearson, MD
    lent conflict resolution, sexual ab-               Benard P. Dreyer, MD                                   *Lead author

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