Sex, not drugs, and rock'n'roll

According to some researchers from Austin, Texas, USA, modern popular music is moving away from glorifying drug use, and is in fact warning kids off the perils of illicit narcotic substances. They've trawled through lyrics of popular music from the 1960s to the present, and concluded that "teenage listeners today 'are being exposed to more negative images of marijuana and LSD than older listeners'."

Yes, modern music is fond of pointing out that 'drugs are bad, mmmkay?'. Even Marilyn Manson, the scourge of all right-thinking, god-fearing Americans points out: "I don't like the drugs..."

Personally, I reckon the researcher's music sample was probably drawn from trawling the playlists of their local Texas Christian rock stations and the Billboard Top 100, which are filled to the brim with commercial pap that would take the modern US attitude that 'Winners don't do Drugs' (except the Olympic Track Team, obviously).
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