Your teenage years are the most crucial in the human aging process. It is during these years that you begin to learn who you will eventually become, how to become that, and what will influence your process in the midst of it all. As incredible as it may seem, the things a human learns in adolescence stay with them into adulthood. Whether or not they flourish in their teenage years, these years will remain an eternal and memorable moment throughout their lives. Most teenagers of this era and era let music influence their lives more than their parents. Music positively and negatively affects adolescents' emotional state, the way they interact physically with their opposite sex, and the way they handle situations in their lives. Music is a moral law that governs the soul. There are no age limits or emotional constraints. Although teenagers like to think of themselves as independent thinkers, music plays a major role in their positive and negative behavior. Many theories about how music can affect adolescents have been developed, such as: thought rejection, drive reduction, and arousal transfer. The rejection of reflection suggests that music is only seen, or in this case, seen as a mirror to a teenager's life. (Gardstrom 2). This suggests that music does not create emotions, feelings, or even a personality that does not initially exist. This theory tricks people into believing that music for teenagers is nothing more than a simple diary of who they are and that negative behaviors come not from the music but from the teenager. Everything negative has been created from within, as the adolescent ultimately chooses what they consume through their ears, which is quickly implanted into their brain. Music does not determine behavior, but rather internal characteristics...... middle of paper ......o express oneself Works Cited Gardnerstrom, Susan C. Music Exposure and Criminal Behavior: Perceptions of Juvenile Delinquents .Journal of music Therapy 36.3 (1999): 207-227Johnson, James D., et al. Gender differential effects of exposure to rap music on African American adolescents' acceptance of adolescent dating violence. Sex Roles 33.7-8 (1995): 597-605. Kemper, Kathi J. and Suzanne C. Danhauer. Music as therapy. Southern Medical Journal 98.3 (2005): 282-288McFerran, Katrina, Melina Roberts, and Lucy O'Grady. Music therapy with bereaved adolescents: a mixed methods perspective. Death Studies 34.6 (2010): 541-565 Baker, Felicity and William Bor. Can musical preference indicate the mental health status of young people? Australasian Psychiatry 16.4 (2008): 284-288. Premier Academic Research. Internet. Apr 23, 2014Storr, Anthony. Music and the spirit. Free press, 1992.