What is music? According to Oxford dictionary music is vocal or instrumental sounds combined in such a way as to produce beauty of form, harmony, and expression of emotion. Music is an important part of our life, most teenagers tend to listen to music about two point five hours per day. Everyone listen to music, from infancy to adult or even the old man. When we were baby, mom sings lullabies to us. And when we grow up, we listen to music in any time, any place, when we are sad, we listen to music, and it does soothes us and makes us feel better. When we are happy, we listen to music, and we will start dancing, moving our body according to the beats of the music. Music is good for us, but on the other hand, there are some music that include bad or harmful message toward us. And those music will influence human behavior either in good ways or bad ways. How does music influence human behavior? There are many kinds of music which will influence human behavior in either good or bad ways.
Music has a strong effect on people. Music like oldies or classical selections make people to feel happier and friendlier (Wade, L). Jobs require high concentration such as dentists, radiation therapists
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According to the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine nowadays, one in three of these popular songs contain explicit lyrics about drug or alcohol use. Children who like to listen to heavy metal music have greater propensity for substance abuse and other risky behaviors during the age of twelve to eighteen, according to the American Association of Pediatrics. Those lyrics with negative messages tends to encourage teens to violate or antisocial. In a study of more than one thousand four hundred adolescents ages between twelve to seventeen have showed that those who like to listen to the music with sex related lyrics began having sex faster/earlier than those who did not listen to that type of