Venom Out of a Bottle

 Hi reader,

    Two bottles. Drinking. It is all fun and games until someone loses their life. That is one of the main reasons why I do not drink. I have lost too many people to alcohol. One of the closest people I have lost was my grandfather. Before I was even born, I was told my grandfather was an alcoholic and after I was born, he started to stop drinking. My family and I lost him about five years later with a heart related death and one of the main causes of that was alcohol and high cholesterol. This was my first experience of death, as a six year old, really hit me in my roots and the lesson of not to drink alcohol has really stuck with me. Even with other people drinking near me and having a great time doing it, either family or friends, I have never had the need to get a drink or want to get drunk to have a good time. Since I do not drink, even though I am not allowed to, I persevere past friends peer pressuring me to drink, so that I can “fit in with the crowd.” 

    But people can be influenced to want to drink by their friends or by different forms of art saying that drinking is perfectly fine. Songs and movies are the biggest forms of arts that showcase drinking to be “ok.” I will be focusing on the art of music impacting people to think that alcohol will positively impact them, while the more people consuming alcohol the more it negatively impacts them. The two mains songs I will be focusing on will be Empty, by Juice WRLD, and Drinkin’ problem by Midland. In his song Empty, he says that he “problem solve with Styrofoam” and the liquid inside the cup can be assumed to be alcohol. The song by Midland, one of his lines talks about people saying his drinking is a problem and he replies that it is “a solution,” and this another example of an artist letting people believe that drinking is a solution to their troubles. In both of these songs, the artist believes that alcohol is the answer to all of their problems, but in fact, harms them in a future date. The art of music makes people believe that drinking is not dangerous and is medicine for their problems, but this same ideology led one of these artists, Juice WRLD, to die from an alcohol and drug overdose.

    The art of music ends up conveying to people to think that drinking has no consequences and can heal all of their problems. This leads many people, like teenagers and young adults, unknowing of the consequences of alcohol to try and abuse the substance because the music tells people that drinking is "fine" and is the norm. The true consequence of alcohol leaves people to have even more difficulties in their lives. Many people, like my grandfather, thought the liquid out of the bottle was going to allow him to be free from his problems, instead, the venom out of a bottle was one of the reasons that killed him.

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