Lady Gaga’s ‘Bad Romance’ and Jamie Foxx’s ‘Blame It,’ among other songs, might be detrimental to students’ emotional health and personal relationships, according to the Boston Public Health Commission. BPHC developed and release a ‘nutritional label’ Dec. 1 to determine how healthy a song is, modeled after the standard nutrition label for foods.’ The label is comprised of two lists including one for ‘healthy relationship ingredients’ and one for ‘unhealthy relationship ingredients,’ according to the label. The unhealthy relationship ingredients include drama, possession/obsession, disrespect, equalizing relationship to sex and manipulation. The healthy relationship ingredients, on the other hand, are fun/enjoyable, support, respect, equality and trust, according to the label. When one idea or ‘ingredient’ is present, the listener is meant to check a box next to the ingredient and then rate how intensely the ingredient is present in the song on a scale of one to 10. Finally, the intensity levels are added up and balanced to calculate whether the song is healthy or unhealthy. A panel of 14 teenagers on BPHC’s Start Strong Initiative, a division of the BPHC directed by Casey Corcoran, created the tool and developed the list of top 10 most and least healthy songs, according to a Dec. 1 BPHC press release. ”Music, like food, can feed our brains and give us energy,” Corcoran said in the press release. ”It’s important to actually listen to and think about the lyrics of a song and not just the beat.’ But contrary to the Start Strong Initiative’s research, many BU students agreed that Lady Gaga songs have little effect on the emotional well-being of their personal relationships and deem the nutrition label unnecessary. ‘Music means different things to different people,’ College of Arts and Sciences freshman Tamara Zeric said. ‘All songs about unhealthy relationships aren’t necessarily correct. It’s just a matter of not taking the message too much to heart.’ College of Communication freshman Amanda Friedman said she is not personally affected by songs. ‘[Bad Romance] is not going to influence me to act in a certain way, so I don’t really care,’ she said. Furthermore, students interpreted the Lady Gaga’s ‘Bad Romance’ in many different ways, some of which were not as negative as the findings by BPHC. ‘Actually in my sociology class, we were talking about this and we saw the song as having a post-feminist message,’ Friedman said. ‘It’s about society and conforming women because the different characters she plays are different views of women in society.’ Others took a more direct meaning from the song. ‘I think the message is no matter how much you may hate someone, you still want them if they attract you,’ Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences freshman Ruchi Gadodia said. Some students said they did not fully comprehend what Lady Gaga was trying to express. ‘The video was the only thing that really attracted me to the song in the first place,’ Zeric said.’ ‘Because the video was hilarious, but I really don’t know what she was talking about in the song.’ Moreover, some students said they enjoyed the strength of Lady Gaga’s message. ‘I think it crosses regular pop music’s boundaries,’ Gadodia said. ‘She’s not afraid to put anger and sass into [her songs].’ Many students said they do not initially judge a song by its lyrics when deciding if they like it or not. ‘At first, it’s not really the lyrics, the beat that catches my attention,’ Friedman said. ‘Lyrics are important too, so that I can understand what the song is trying to say, but that comes after.’