When Sex Is on the Air: Impression Formation After Exposure to Sexual Music

Carpentier, Francesca R. Dillman

doi:10.1007/s12119-014-9223-8

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“…In empirical studies, music taste—especially a taste for electronic dance music, hip-hop, and the more aggressive forms of rock—has been linked to substance use, problem behavior, and norm-breaking (for example: Arnett, 1996; Coyne & Padilla-Walker, 2015; Lozon & Bensimon, 2014, 2015; Miranda & Claes, 2004; Mulder, Ter Bogt, Raaijmakers, & Vollebergh, 2007; Tanner, Asbridge, & Wortley, 2008; Ter Bogt, Keijsers, & Meeus, 2013; Vuolo, Uggen, & Lageson, 2014). Experimental research indicates that listening to popular music not only correlates with but may directly influence listeners’ attitudes, values, mood, and behavior, positively or negatively (for example: Carpentier, 2014; Carpentier, Knobloch-Westerwick, & Blumhoff, 2007; Engels, Slettenhaar, Ter Bogt, & Scholte, 2011; Greitemeyer, 2009; Johnson, Jackson, & Gatto, 1995; Lennings &Warburton, 2011; Mast & McAndrew, 2011).…”

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What has America been singing about? Trends in themes in the U.S. top-40 songs: 1960–2010

Christenson

Rietdijk

Roberts

et al. 2018

Psychology of Music

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This study explored 19 themes embedded in the lyrics of 1,040 U.S. top-40 songs from 1960 through 2010, using R strucchange software to identify trends and breaks in trends. Findings reveal both continuity and change. As in 1960, the predominant topic of pop music remains romantic and sexual relationships. However, whereas the proportion of lyrics referring to relationships in romantic terms remained stable, the proportion including reference to sex-related aspects of relationships increased sharply. References to lifestyle issues such as dancing, alcohol and drugs, and status/wealth increased substantially, particularly in the 2000s. Other themes were far less frequent: Social/political issues, religion/God, race/ethnicity, personal identity, family, friends showed a modest occurrence in top-40 music throughout the studied period and showed no dramatic changes. Violence and death occurred in a small number of songs, and both increased, particularly since the 1990s. References to hate/hostility, suicide, and occult matters were very rare. Results are examined in the context of cultural changes in the social position of adolescents, and more specifically in light of the increased popularity of rap/hip-hop music, which may explain the increases in references to sex, partying, dancing, drug use, and wealth.

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What has America been singing about? Trends in themes in the U.S. top-40 songs: 1960–2010

Christenson

Rietdijk

Roberts

et al. 2018

Psychology of Music

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“…Expressing one's sexuality is an innate part of the human experience Lee 2018). Furthermore, research has demonstrated that sexual lyrics act as primes for adolescents and young adults listeners (Carpentier 2014;Lundy 2018). These identities are not shaped in a vacuum of lyrics alone, rather they are formed in concert with the public reaction to sexual content (Holody et al 2016; Brown 2020) as well as the social construction of the image of female musicians (Lieb 2018;Whiteley 2017).…”

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There’s Some Whores in this House: An Examination of Female Sexuality in R&B/Hip Hop and Pop Music, 1991–2021

Griffin,

Fournet,

Zhai

et al. 2023

Sexuality & Culture

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Sexually explicit lyrics are more often expressed by male artists; however, sexually explicit lyrics created by female artists attract greater media interest. During the past thirty years, female-created lyrics about their sexuality have become increasingly more common and may serve as a 'pink'-print used by adolescent and young women to construct their sexual identity. This study examines female sexuality as expressed in the lyrics of R&B/Hip Hop and Pop music by female artists between 1991-2021. These messages are marked by duality of female sexuality: respectability of the 'good' girl and expressing themselves as sexual beings with sexual desire.

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There’s Some Whores In This House: An Examination of Female Sexuality in R&B/Hip Hop and Pop Music, 1991–2021

Griffin

Fournet

Zhai

et al. 2022

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Sexually explicit lyrics are more often expressed by male artists; however, sexually explicit lyrics created by female artists attract greater media interest. During the past thirty years, female-created lyrics about their sexuality have become increasingly more common and may serve as a ‘pink’-print used by adolescent and young women to construct their sexual identity. This study examines female sexuality as expressed in the lyrics of R&B/Hip Hop and Pop music by female artists between 1991–2021. These messages are marked by duality of female sexuality: respectability of the ‘good’ girl and expressing themselves as sexual beings with sexual desire.

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When Sex Is on the Air: Impression Formation After Exposure to Sexual Music

Cited by 11 publications

References 44 publications

What has America been singing about? Trends in themes in the U.S. top-40 songs: 1960–2010

What has America been singing about? Trends in themes in the U.S. top-40 songs: 1960–2010

There’s Some Whores in this House: An Examination of Female Sexuality in R&B/Hip Hop and Pop Music, 1991–2021

There’s Some Whores In This House: An Examination of Female Sexuality in R&B/Hip Hop and Pop Music, 1991–2021

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When Sex Is on the Air: Impression Formation After Exposure to Sexual Music

Cited by 11 publications

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What has America been singing about? Trends in themes in the U.S. top-40 songs: 1960–2010

What has America been singing about? Trends in themes in the U.S. top-40 songs: 1960–2010

There’s Some Whores in this House: An Examination of Female Sexuality in R&B/Hip Hop and Pop Music, 1991–2021

There’s Some Whores In This House: An Examination of Female Sexuality in R&amp;B/Hip Hop and Pop Music, 1991–2021

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