Music Censorship

During the Doors concert in Miami, in 1969, lead singer Jim Morrison, 'did lewdly and lasciviously expose his penis and shake it. . .' (Rosen et al. 90). Today, Billy Joe Armstrong, lead singer of Green Day, bares all at his concert in Philadelphia (Bernstein 95). The eccentric Courtney Love will rip off her bra for the audience to marvel and glorify at her action (Bernstein 95). She acts in such a fashion because she is insane and wants to …

…minds for a reason, to use them and make choices for themselves. Censoring music takes away that whole purpose. If we had been born without brains and not able to make choices for ourselves, then maybe censorship might be necessary. Ratings, labels, and censoring in any form are all unnecessary evils that society needs to relinquish, besides that, a brain's purpose for creation involved choice and decision making, let people take advantage of their privilege.