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Sex Sells

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Essay title: Sex Sells

How is sex being manipulated through the media to sell music? Nowadays, music artists are using sex as an appealing and profitable method on tours, TV and radio stations to attract viewers and listeners into buying their records because sex makes the public stay more in tuned with their visuals (music videos), the sexual explicit lyrics makes more radio and TV friendly songs and helps the artists live performances become much more appealing.

First, sexual acts in the videos makes the public stay more in tuned with their visuals (music videos). Music videos with sexual acts are somehow more attractive to the public. Sometimes, the songs won’t connect with the public but through the video it might connect because it’s graphic more appealing. That can quickly help the artists get more hype, more recognition and more fans.

Secondly, sexual explicit lyrics songs makes more radio and TV friendly songs. Songs with the sexually explicit lyrics mostly have the catchy choruses in the songs. People enjoy these kind of songs more in a party atmosphere because they

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