Music
Music is a gift. Not a gift to be boxed packaged and sold at a price, but a gift that should be shared and appreciated by all. Music is supposed to mean something. It is supposed to touch people. With the drastic rise in the music industry, starting in the early twenties, music has been turning into something that it shouldn't be. With money being such an important issue in society today, the focus of what music is and the integrity of the artist should not be compromised. People have lost that musical vibe that once fed the hopes and dreams throughout the sixties and seventies. Ever since groups like the Monkees, music hit a point of no return. Ever since then it has been falling down hill and, my friend, I think were just about ground level. The music industry today is full of money-hungry producers looking for that next big product. It makes me sick to think of what future generations will think of the music today. Marina Lobanova stats "today the old art has died and the new has not yet been born; and objects have died too. We have lost our feeling for the world; we are like a violinist who can no longer feel the bow or the strings" (14). This describes that the direction of music, and art in general, has
One question I ask is when did this fake pop music become cool to listen to? I remember back in the day when The New Kids on the Block were in and I remember that after that whole craze, it kind of died out and the fake, boy pop bands became the least popular. Boy bands were out. Then all of the sudden The Backstreet boys come in and do the same thing but they are suddenly the cool thing to listen to once again. The industry just pushes it's music onto us and after a while it is all that there is and so that's all those kids have to listen to. What they do is they buy all the airtime and put them all over m.t.v. with the catchy songs that were written to sell albums and they take over all the airwaves. People are bound to buy albums if that is what the industry shows as the next cool thing. They just pounded and pounded these songs into the young teens head that eventually it is what they think that they like. The whole pop scene was created to get the younger kids interested in music, so after they got older they would get into rock and roll. The sad thing is that the whole pop scene seems to be taking over while the rock and roll seems to be dying out. What ever happened to the days of Led Zepplin, Pink Floyd, The Beatles and so many other great bands that we have seen in the past. It's not that the talent has disappeared, but yet the industry is just trying to make the most money possible. So they tell us what we should listen which is the music that they have created. And people don't know what else is out there for they are very over-powering. I personally am not going to pay a dime to anything that discredits music and whose only purpose is to take my money. May 2, 2001.
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Approximate Word count = 2620
Approximate Pages = 10 (250 words per page double spaced)
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