Country music has had a bad reputation that it can cause suicide due to the sometimes-depressing themes in the songs. Many of the songs talk about death, divorce, suicide, and breakups. My research question is does county music cause suicide. This question is hard to research because most people believe that country music does cause suicide. This question will add knowledge in the field because it will show that country music is not the only genre of music that can cause suicide. Some examples of country songs that are not constantly depressing include “Whiskey Lullaby”, “Journey On”, “Beachin,” and “Cop Car”. Many of the songs cover divorce, death, alcoholism, and breakups, which many people, consider depressing topics. One example of a song like this would be “Whiskey Lullaby” by Brad Paisley with Alison Krauss. This song talks about a couple who broken up suddenly and they fell into alcoholism and eventually died (Paisley, 2004). This song has that depressing feel because when the song was written John Randall had just gotten divorced from his wife and he turned to the bottle to fix his problems (Gallagher, 2009). Not all country songs cover depressing topics, some of the songs are fun, how a guy got a girl, and inspirational. One of the inspirational songs would be …show more content…
This article does not have any real research; it is more an explanation of the errors that were found in the original experiment done by Stack and Gundlach in 1992. This article states, “The 49 metropolitan areas used in Stack and Gundlach’s study may contain exaggerated biases. The aggregate data may fail to account for what is actually occurring at the individual level (Mauk, Taylor, White, & Allen, 1994).” This article states that