Music and Psychology?

no matter what the generation is, it seems that the parents are never really ok with what their kids are listening to. how annoying it is. but they do have a reason to worry. like any work of art, music has underlying connotations that the artist put there consciously and intentionally. for example off the top of my head the line"come on baby light my fire" from The Doors song can be seen as subtly but intentionally sexual. thats where the parents worry, they think its teaching their kids a lifestyle other than the one they wanted for them. every lyric that you have ever heard in your life has at one point entered your conscious mind but most of the words are considered not worthy of interpretation so they are repressed into your unconscious. theyre not ever forgotten, theyre just stored so deep that you could never recall all of them for conscious interpretation. without knowing it, a different part of your mind is putting all the meanings together and coming to conclusions that you are unaware of. we often times dont understand why we think what we think, or do what we do, or come up with seemingly random concepts and ideas. the answer is that the unconscious is constantly trying to find its way into the conscious mind and when it succeeds, we act upon its message without even knowing it. so these underlying messages in music are always being processed and used throughout our daily lives and decisions without our even knowing. its scary thought for parents who feel responsible for forming their childs character.
another factor that adds into the mix is the fact that there is more meaning in music than the lyrics. theres the tempo, style, mood etc that project the artists emotions and thoughts without even the artist knowing. basically the artist unconsciously puts their Self into a song, the song is listened to by the fan, who unconsciously picks up on parts of the Self that the artist put into it, and is unintentionally influenced by the artist and their standards, moralities, and beleifs.

so going back to pop culture and how rock & roll changed america, thats how^. african americans put their Self's and their cultural beleifs into their music and when it became popular among white americans (through the means of elvis) they started picking up on new beleifs and ideas that they never wouldve considered because they isolated and themselves from such a large race. these beleifs were stored into the minds of a whole generation (our grandparents/parents), who raised us with some those beleifs unknowingly. since they have been stored in our collective minds for our whole life, we find it humorous that it was once considered scanalous to see gyrating hips on tv.