Music influences many people, positively and negatively, these are the opinions people have about how music influences them. The main thing that makes people think the way they do when it comes to music is that the vast majority of artists in the most popular genre of the moment send bad messages that influence people who want to be considered "cool", different and do morally incorrect things and illegal. Many genres contain negative messages that influence people to do what most people would consider wrong. Many people blame a specific genre for being the one that affects people in a negative way, but it's multiple genres. Many people also believe that certain genres convey positive messages to their children and relatives, but in reality they are listening to music that gives off a message that could convince them to do something illegal or dangerous, perhaps even both. Many artists use extremely vulgar language in their song lyrics and don't give a damn who listens to it as long as they make a large amount of money, when this happens, middle school and elementary school children are easily manipulated at that age they can listen to the songs and start using the language they hear in the song in their everyday vocabulary as they support the person or group who is making the music the children are listening to and making them do things they know are wrong. “Do not accept the perverse view that casts humiliation in a song or video as free speech.” (Borowski, John F) Many artists write music about illegal things like drug use, drinking and daily drunkenness, or causing physical harm to a person they don't like because of the way they gets dressed, maybe even kill someone. Children help the kind of artists who forgive the negative message that