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I've been watching therapist react videos on YT trying to dissect songs from late 90's numetal bands like korn, slipknot...etc and it hit me that teens today don't have popular music that speaks to them about their day to day struggles. There's no popular band singing about being bullied, about your parents fighting and you feeling alone, how life sucks in general. Regardless of quality, that music served as a cathartic outlet. You put on your headphones and pressed play on that cd player and you where transported to a place where you felt understood and could relate with.

Now what do teens have today? I just checked the billboard top 100 and it's literally all urban music (with this I mean Ice Spice, Cardi B's, Bad Bunny) and pop songs from Ariana Grande, Dua Lipa, T.S...etc. Most of the songs being about sex and romantic relationships. Of course teens today have a lot of places they can escape to, but they're probably not getting any catharsis from listening to Bad Bunny say "yeah yeah yeah". This has led me to think if there could be any significant relation between this and depression/suicide rates. I'm aware there's a million other (more significant) factors behind this, I'm just wondering if there just could be a measurable contribution.

According to the National Institute of Mental Health, suicide rates went down during 1994 and hitting its lowest levels since 1970's during early 2000's. Then 2007 comes and its been going uphill since then. Im guessing with the rise of social media and cyber bulling things got worse fast. Still, data shows 1995-2006 to have the lowest levels of suicides between young people. Is slipknot to be in partly thanked for that?