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1. Young people look for new rhythms and new styles.
2. The rhythms are full of energy and force: just what appeals to young people. The melody is easily caught.
3. The words of the songs are about the young people's world: their hopes, dreams, sorrows and joys.
1 Young people 'get a drive' listening to this music. It is an experimental kind of music: sometimes groups achieve interesting forms. . Pop music attracts many young people. Why should we be against the joy they get from this music?
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1. Before rejecting1 old rhythms, see if the new ones are really better.
2. The rhythms may be new and energetic, but they lack2 variety: it's the same beat again and again. The melodies are mostly simple and as easily forgotten as caught.
3. The words of some of the songs are absolutely senseless3.
4. Medical research has proved that the sound produced by powerful amplifiers4 at some pop concerts does great harm5 to the nervous system. Indeed, cases of hysteria are not unusual at pop concerts.
5. In Australia taped pop music is used to frighten6 the sharks7 off the public beaches8. Obviously9, the sharks' nerves cannot stand this kind
of noise.
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