Country Music Kills: Radio Airtime Ups White Suicide Rate

Saturday, June 5, 2010 - 06:10 in Psychology & Sociology

I've been a blog slacker and for that I deserve a spanking. My vote is from the capable hands of the UCLA women's volleyball team. But that's another story. Here's the real story: country music kills. I've long known that country music makes me want to grab a lariat and hang myself from the nearest old elm tree. And now I find I'm not alone: social psychologists Steven Stack and Jim Grundlach found that the more a city's radio stations play country music, the higher the white suicide rate. Seriously. read more

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