I feel like country music used to focus a lot on love, which it still does, and about anything. Now a days country has progressed and become more popular and it talks about incorporating romance into any type of situation. It also talks about people having affairs. I think the likable that country incorporates is that it's easy on the ears and that the artists can basically sing about anything and be able to relate to many different types of people. So from the past to now, the same basic aspects are talked about with the same messages, but as it's evolved artists have incorporated more diverse things that people can relate to. The lyrics, as Chuck says, are simple which makes it easier for the listeners to hear and understand the words and get the message that's coming across. Even if you can't relate to the whole song there are bits and pieces that you can. The video below shows how country music songs have evolved. I feel like in every song there's a sense of emotion always present. You can hear the different styles, and if you were to listen to each song in full you could probably relate in some way or another. I'm a fan of country music as well so I know that I'm able to relate to some of these.
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Hip Hop and Country...Then vs Now
I feel like hip hop used to talk about everything and anything while now there's a lot of gang talk, race, money, drugs, and sex. I'm not saying hip hop is bad because I personally like hip hop music, certain songs anyway. But in terms of where it is today, I feel like standards and expectations for songs have been lowered because they're not really talking about anything and everything anymore it only focuses on a couple of aspects. To me this makes listeners think that these aspects are okay and supposed to be in your everyday life a lot. I do like the quote that Staples used that said that people think murder and shootings are normal and that spending life in prison is normal too. But as for this music making people violent, I don't believe that to be true necessarily. People choose to listen to this for entertainment, behaviors (sagging of pants, etc) and styles may be replicated but every person who listens isn't running out to join a gang or going out and shooting up places. The video below definitely shows the differences between 80's, 90's and current hip hop music.(ignore the comments made by the maker of the video, I don't agree with what they say)
I feel like country music used to focus a lot on love, which it still does, and about anything. Now a days country has progressed and become more popular and it talks about incorporating romance into any type of situation. It also talks about people having affairs. I think the likable that country incorporates is that it's easy on the ears and that the artists can basically sing about anything and be able to relate to many different types of people. So from the past to now, the same basic aspects are talked about with the same messages, but as it's evolved artists have incorporated more diverse things that people can relate to. The lyrics, as Chuck says, are simple which makes it easier for the listeners to hear and understand the words and get the message that's coming across. Even if you can't relate to the whole song there are bits and pieces that you can. The video below shows how country music songs have evolved. I feel like in every song there's a sense of emotion always present. You can hear the different styles, and if you were to listen to each song in full you could probably relate in some way or another. I'm a fan of country music as well so I know that I'm able to relate to some of these.
I feel like country music used to focus a lot on love, which it still does, and about anything. Now a days country has progressed and become more popular and it talks about incorporating romance into any type of situation. It also talks about people having affairs. I think the likable that country incorporates is that it's easy on the ears and that the artists can basically sing about anything and be able to relate to many different types of people. So from the past to now, the same basic aspects are talked about with the same messages, but as it's evolved artists have incorporated more diverse things that people can relate to. The lyrics, as Chuck says, are simple which makes it easier for the listeners to hear and understand the words and get the message that's coming across. Even if you can't relate to the whole song there are bits and pieces that you can. The video below shows how country music songs have evolved. I feel like in every song there's a sense of emotion always present. You can hear the different styles, and if you were to listen to each song in full you could probably relate in some way or another. I'm a fan of country music as well so I know that I'm able to relate to some of these.
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I agree with you that music doesn't make people violent. I also LOVE "The Chair" by George Strait ... genius song, really.
ReplyDeleteJust because music doesn't make everybody violent, that doesn't mean that it makes nobody violent. You can't extend the judgement from one absolute to another.
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