“Music goes deeper than emotion into the energies that animate our psychic life.” (Sessions) American adolescents are slowly adapting their everyday life to music. Since there are an extreme amount of music artists; numerous teenagers are engaging in making music their lifestyle. Music’s impact on teenagers change their perceptions on life in many different ways: it shapes who they are by their choice of style and appearance, their internal feelings about themselves and how they behave socially towards people. Music is essentially a physical, emotional, and social contribution in the life of teenagers aging from 13-18. Teenagers spend on average at least 4-5 hours listening to music or watching music videos. This average has gone up drastically (almost 45%) in the past decade.
To adolescents it is a way for them to escape from their everyday life and endure in their own thoughts which are excepted amongst those who listen to the same genre of music. To teenagers ranging from 13-18, their life consists of one continuous playing soundtrack whether it is from rap to reggae or classical to punk. Music artists have a great influence on one’s identity physically. Despite the age these young adults admire the personalities and style of their favorite and most listened artists.
This defines how they dress and present themselves to others. The “stereo-typical” teenager more than fifty percent of the time is based on how they dress. Their style of dress can be related to or even imitate their role- model which in many cases is their favorite musician’s style. Teenagers become absorbed in music to identify themselves as older. Psychological analytics have proclaimed that they react on what they perceive as accepted, popular and amazing and turn that into who they are..
The Essay on Life Styles
The lifestyle that will be discussed in this paper is one of a healthy person who exercises regularly to maintain both physical and mental strength. The benefits of this lifestyle are to maintain good health in order to excel in the future. Excelling in the field of policing and the area of corrections. One must give up certain luxuries in life, one must exercise regularly, and one must eat ...
