Benefits and downfalls of musical impact on society

By Anthony

Whether positive, negative, or neutral, Music has impacts on people around the world. 



The benefits of musical impact on our society are the calming effects are:

1: Certain types of songs can make someone enlightened and feel the music

When listening to a happy song a person will tend to move with the music or sing along and start to feel happy. This is good for individuals who are feeling sad or want to keep their bodies moving in an exciting and fun way. With the motion and happiness expressed in others by music, music could be used as an efficient substitute to exercise and a great way to make a group of people happy.


2: Music can motivate someone to achieve life goals and certain tasks

Music has a motivational impact on our minds and bodies that manipulates us to work harder to achieve our goals. This is useful for those executing a workout exercise and need a motivating factor. When a person is at a low point on the workout, the person can play workout music or motivational music and he/she will be motivated to turn the tide of the situation and achieve their goal.

The downfalls of musical impact on our society are:

1: Certain types of music can have an unhealthy impact on a person's mood

When listening to a sad song a person will tend to cry and get into a temporary sad state of mind others describe as "getting in their feelings." This is bad for listeners of this type of music for the reason being that sad music can leave people with long term effects which can impact a person negatively such as depression. Depression from sad music can lead to physical fatigues such as lack of food because of refusing to eat, lack of energy because the individual stays up from the depression and sickness because mood can affect an individual's immune system. If not careful an individual listener can even get suicidal thoughts and end them-self. Therefore, sad music can have unhealthy and even deadly impacts on our society.

2: Music can distract individuals from the outside world

While an individual listener listens to their desired song they might not be aware of their surroundings which can be both dangerous and disrespectful to family members and friends. An Example of the dangerous and potential deadly impact of music distracting listeners is that An individual can be crossing down a street while listening to music and they are not aware of their surroundings. This is dangerous and potentially deadly to listeners because a car crashing an individual can lead to concussions, broken bones, paralysis, or even death. An Example of listening to music being distracting and disrespectful is that an individual listener can be distracted listening to music while in household and family members are around. This behavior can be disrespectful to the family members especially if they desire family time. All listeners of music need to balance music and the outside world surrounding them to make sure they do not encounter harm or broken friendships or relationships.