Music Defines Society.
I've had this sticker on my various school binders for at least 2 years. I picked them up at the friendly neighborhood Hot Topic for free, as they were meant to promote a website. But, I just needed something to decorate my binder, so I stuck it on with little to no thought. Recently, I've had several people approach me to ask where I got it from, to which they declare it's the truest sticker they've seen in a long time. So, I actually began thinking about it.
What I derived from all this thinking is that people like it, because it is a rather profound statement. It is true in so many ways. To give an example, in the 50's music was happy, cool music you could get up and jitterbug to. In the 60's music became more psychedelic, and improved with the usage of shrooms, and other acids, and it was also "happy" music. The 70's gave us more rock, with the top hits of Led Zepplin and Pink Floyd. Into the 80's we got more electronic beats, and synthesized sounds. From then on, we had the more modern birth of hip-hop, rap, punk, emo, screamo, and several other "labels" to apply to bands. Although these types of music had been around before, we now needed a better way to classify them.
With each decade that passes, we can easily tell what was going on in the sense that that era's music speaks to us. We see the public outcry of the Vietnam Conflict in Buffalo Springfield's "Something's Happening Here." But on the other side, we see happier times in "Rock Around the Clock." I never realized how true this statement was util recently, and it has since immensely opened my eyes in my history studies. I no see that music really is a huge part of history, not just as a footnote. But what does this say about our generation of music? Looking back, we will remember Lil Wayne singing,
"Got money, (yeah) And you know it, Take it out your pocket and show it ,(then) Throw it "
seriously, is that something we want to look back on? think about it.
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