Many music groups have an agenda incorporated into their lyrics. Find a music group or artist with lyrics that could alienate or offend a certain cultural group. In the first paragraph, identify the artist and what could be deemed offensive or culturally offensive in their lyrics. Then, in the second paragraph, suggest how the lyrics could be changed to correct that potential offense.
Your outside source will be a source that helps to identify the potential offense within the lyrics. You will also want to provide the source where you found the lyrics in the first place. So, for this analysis, you will have three sources in your Works Cited.
2) outside source-identifying lyrics
3) outside source suggesting potential offense
Your purpose for this analysis is to help the reader see that intercultural communication happens in many different forms, including a musician’s performance. As ethical communicators, we should strive not to offend.
