The Culture and Media Institute goes beyond the beats and melodies to examine the messages of today’s most popular songs.
"More than a quarter of the songs that topped Billboard’s charts contained sexually degrading lyrics."
[ An excerpt from Colleen Raezler's Listen to Those Lyrics article. ]

Click here to view the whole article (PDF).

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