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Wednesday, February 6, 2008

Drugs and Pop. And Country?!

Posted by Andrew R Tonry on Wed, Feb 6 at 2:50 PM

Interesting story today: There are a whole lot of drugs in pop music.

“The report of a team led by Dr. Brian Primack of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and released on Monday calculated that Americans from ages 15 to 18 listening to 2.4 hours of music a day hear 84 references to substances daily and more than 30,000 annually.”

That’s more than I would’ve thought, but this was stranger:

“Some genres, like rap and country in comparison with pop, have more references than others.”

Rap I get, but country? Country makes drug references? Does some dumbass croon about Grandpa makin’ Moonshine count?

Fuckin’ weird.

As for the rest of it, I really have little to say. The Great Doctor Thompson put it best:

“I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.”

The Doctor of Divintiy also dropped this drug-related gem, explaining that without drugs, “I’d have the brain of a second-rate accountant.”

And for the irony of this news, the story right below it confirmed that drugs killed rapper Pimp C.


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