Feature youth culture link: Oversexualized – A window into todays most popular songs
You gotta love what many of these songs are doing today. They are slippin under the radar and being deemed “clean” by the world’s standards (I addressed that fact in more detail in this blog about the Black Eyed Peas), when the lyrics are anything but clean. Yes, Rude Boy doesn’t have cuss words. So it’s clean, right? Let’s be honest. The whole song is about hooking up. But, hey… as long as they don’t cuss, right?
It doesn’t require studies like these (students listening to a lot of music with sexual messages were almost twice as likely to start having intercourse within the following two years…) to tell you what effect listening to this content regularly would have on teenagers.
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Top 10 TV Shows
| Rank | TV Program | Audience (in millions) |
| 1. | American Idol – Tue. (Fox) | 21 |
| 2. | American Idol – Wed. (Fox) | 20.6 |
| 3. | Dancing With the Stars (ABC) | 20.6 |
| 4. | Glee (Fox) | 13.7 |
| 5. | Two and a Half Men (CBS) | 13.7 |
| 6. | Dancing With the Stars Results (ABC) | 13.6 |
| 7. | The Big Bang Theory (CBS) | 13.4 |
| 8. | CSI (CBS) | 13.2 |
| 9. | ACM Awards (CBS) | 13 |
| 10. | Castle (ABC) | 12.7 |