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Fri 03 Mar 2008Can America's iCrime wave be halted? Well iDon't see why
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Ever since Elvis shook his pelvis on TV, popular music has been held responsible for a number of society's ills, from "Would you let your daughter marry a Rolling Stone?" to the beach fights between Mods and Teds, to any amount of moral panics about sex and drugs and general "bad" behaviour.
Heavy metal music was supposed to contain hidden satanic messages, Marilyn Manson is the "antichrist" and Amy Winehouse and Pete Doherty are regularly cited as being somehow responsible for "glamorising" drug usage.
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