I've noticed the lack of musical taste of my generation and I'm appalled. Don't take this personally, it's not just the people at this school. It's our entire nation! Every person seems to have forgotten about the true greats like the Doors and Led Zeppelin and replaced them with Rihanna and 3Oh!3. Don't get me wrong I like the newer bands just as much as the next person and sing along whenever the "hits" come on the radio, but this music is meaningless. People like Ke$sha do not belong in Rolling Stone magazine. Lil Wayne should not out sell the Beatles. What has happened to our society as a whole? Is there no good music left in the world?
I took a Rock Music & Culture class at EMCC the summer of my Sophomore year. One day in class my Professor, Jean, said every decade has a great musical movement. One band of person who changes the whole scene, who moves society as whole in a different direction. These pioneers of rock, Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, Jim Morrison, Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, Bob Dylan, Roger Daltrey, Keith Moon, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Jerry Garcia, Eric fricken Clapton! Do you know who any of them are? Are you above the brainwashed masses who keep their stations on 96.9 and 98.3? Discover something different. Get out of the group of people bobbing their heads to meaningless junk and put on some over sized headphones, light a candle, turn your speakers up to 11 and let the music blow your mind!
Janaye Campbell
WHS
Wickenburg, Ariz.
I think everyone is entitled to their own musical opion. I personally like newer music because its easy to dance to. I also think that if everyone listened to the same music all the time it would get boring after a while. Even the new pop culture songs become over played very fast. But at the same time if everyone listened to the same music there would be no individuals.
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WHS
Wickenburg, Ariz.
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ReplyDeletelisten to "newer" music as well, but I don't think I fall under the category you are refering to. I listen to newer rock, alternative, and metal, but I still know almost every country song on the radio and love classical music.
ReplyDeleteI'm a public hater of rap, which I don't even consider music. Unlike Amanda, I don't believe you can "dance" to it. More like bump and grind into total strangers in intimate ways that should not be displayed in public. Another reason on my list of why I hate the school dances.
Dancing music, to me, is electronica (barely), and ballroom dancing music. At least with electronica there aren't random guys talking about killing, robbing, and pimping out chicks when they've never even been to a ghetto. You might call me old fashioned, but that is just how I am.
Though I do agree with most of what you said, I do believe that everyone is entitled to their own opinion, whether it be about music, politics, or the price of peas in Pennsylvania.
Just please, dear Lord, put some headphones in while listening to your music in Journalism; that stuff is grinding on my nerves. I will seriously bust a gasket the next time I hear those same 5 songs that get played.
Lucy Randazzo
WHS
Wickenburg, Ariz.
Janaye, I have seen in concert most the people you mentioned. I saw Led Zeppelin when they only had their first two albums out. I saw the Doors in 1967. The "British Invasion" was the most incredible phenomenon I had ever witnessed in the music world. I remember the day when three albums were all released at the same time: Magical Mystery Tour (The Beatles), On Her Majesty's Secret Service (The Stones), and Disreli Gears (Cream). Exciting times, those 60s. That kids still love this music 40 years later thrills me.
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WHS
Wickenburg, Ariz
Don't get me wrong I'm not knocking your music at all, like I said I totally dig the newer stuff too. I'm just saying people mock our generation constantly and say we don't care about what's going on around us and take nothing seriously, and this reflects in the music we listen to. All I'm saying is everyone puts themself into a musical box and is too comfortable with normalicy try anything new. I was honestly hoping my post would inspire some of you to look into the people I mentioned and try to see music as a collective part of history, not just something to grind up against some guy at a club to. Music should be an experiance.
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