But when lyrics become a place to express anger, show off or let loose, music becomes an exaggerated speaker of deviations in thinking and personality.
The story of " deviant lyrics" in recent times has become a warning sign of a breakdown in cultural awareness received by some singers and a part of the public.
It is worrying, when songs containing offensive language, showing off a selfish, enjoyable lifestyle, and social challenges are cheered and shouted as symbols of "personality". Many young audiences see it as "quality", " cool", forgetting that behind the "adultery" is the standard attitude of disregard. Once the deviation of standards is normalized, it will not only make musical language poor but also make spiritual life deviate and lose direction.
The first responsibility belongs to the singer. Holding the microphone, they are not only singing for themselves, but conveying a social message. Creative freedom never comes with arbitrariness, and it is even more impossible to use the excuse of "art for art" to justify cheap language. A real artist must know how to restrain himself, know what the line between improvisation and offensive is, between quality and rough.
However, it is not enough to criticize artists and ignore the role of a part of the audience. The public is the "man who nurtures" the taste of enjoyment. When deviant products are still flooding social networks, still being crowded with millions of likes, it is no longer a personal mistake, but a problem of the cultural ecosystem.
The long-term solution is not just a "ban" or " Fine". Culture cannot grow in fear, but must be nurtured in knowledge. In addition to rectifying and raising sanctions to be deterrent enough, the management agency should also create more legitimate playgrounds for works of kindness, build a music support fund with humanistic value, encourage composition towards aesthetic education and national identity. At the same time, it is necessary to add a mechanism of "soft approval", that is, screening by cultural criteria, not by dry administrative orders.
In particular, aesthetic education in schools must be considered the root. A generation that knows how to enjoy music mentally will not be easily led by deviant lyrics. And finally, there needs to be more honest and fair opinions from experts to help the public distinguish between creativity and innovation.
Vietnamese music must become a cultural flow that nurtures the soul, and cannot fall into a spiral of commercialization and deviation from standards. Rectification is not only to preserve traditional customs, but also to protect the dignity of music, which was originally born to make people more beautiful.
