Write an essay arguing the point that sharing music is beneficial by addressing key factors that make your viewpoint sound. For example, explain that websites that feature an MP3 clip or full track of an artist's song brings awareness to the listener that the music exists. If the listener has a friend who has bought the whole album online, sharing it with her is fine, because one of them has purchased it and probably the friend will want to buy the whole album too, if she enjoys it. Word of mouth is a powerful tool; the more people talk about the artist, the more CDs and MP3s people buy.
In this essay, point out reasons why drugged-out, suicidal musicians with serious health problems and psychological issues have a destructive influence on teenagers. In middle school and high school, teenagers are trying to figure out who they are, what their values are and what they want to achieve in life. Listening to angry music full of references to drugs, murder or suicide, living "on the edge" and cheating on girlfriends and boyfriends can only have a negative effect on the audience.
Listening to music, especially orchestral, orchestra, jazz and other ensembles, takes extreme concentration and mental ability. Music is math, poetry and geometry combined into audible sounds. Because we often hear music in the background in movies, TV shows, waiting rooms and restaurants, our ears have become dulled to the pleasure and intensity of music. Bach, Beethoven, Schopenhauer, the Beatles, Thelonious Monk and heaps of other musicians should not be listened to as background music. We should have "music hours" when we listen single-mindedly to songs and melodies.
Argue in this essay that is shameful for any school to let a student graduate without him having learned at least the basics of a minimum of one music instrument. Research shows that children who begin to learn to play an instrument, or learn music theory and composition, at a young age improve their math skills. Taking music lessons produces "profound and lasting changes that enhance a child's general ability to learn," according to a Scientific American article "Hearing the Music, Honing the Mind" (November 2010). Make sure to point out that while a student may take music lessons outside of school on guitar, violin, piano or any other instrument, it is ideal for school to require instrument classes so that no student graduates without basic instrument instruction.