I like music especially spiritual songs, I am not that much focused on the genre of the music. I can hear rock and roll, jazz, hip-hope..But I understand there are music that fall in the controversy on the message they convey either in their lyrics or by the styles of their transmitters. But we must be wise enough before generalizing everything is wrong or conveys wrong message. I would like to bring up here the idea raised as “rock and roll is immoral or evil in its nature”. It is my understanding that there are a lot of evil messages passed -on in different style of art. We see artistic works hanged on different museums that convey porn, poets that serve to talk about adultery, naked truth of sexuality, anything you name social evils. There are also many music that transmit messages that are deviant from the common ground established in our society. We see bands starting from their name they talk about bad, do bad, and influence their fans with their bad style. Last week I read about a musician who was found dead in his house due to cocktail of drugs he took. As I read all through the story, I found out the musician was a produced, a writer, and instrument player in one of well known rock and roll band. Despite one of their members was also dead due to drug over dose. It is unfortunate that those who are in rock and roll music practice something that hurts the industry. They talk about suicide, they talk about hate, and they talk about discordant views. They show their ruined style of living with cigar, heroin, alcohol, showing naked body, insulting, anything which is bad. I agree in some instance what Paul Cobley said, he has some truth in it. Imagine their audience who are in their younger age, where there mind is in the process of maturation, where their life experience is limited, where they prefer to hear their peers than their parents (here I am not condemning them why they listen to their peers it is natural- we all once had passed through that point and were rebelled to our parents rules and ideas and prefer to be ruled by our autonomous power. Imagine this time when you are in emotional turmoil, listened to a music which can liberate you from depression, anger, hate by performing suicide, thinking of freedom after death. Of course why not I am brain washed, I can perform it. We see so many behaviours and fashions are direct consequences of these models. If youngsters are shown their idol is wearing badly and tastelessly they can take it as a hip. Their idols are loud. It is obvious that hearing music that is loud and noisy catches ones attention and controls intention, if not it is now considered as boring and sluggish. Of course how can we be in accordance with the past generation who love to hear soft and calm music?
When we see some rock and roll musicians on TV or in their music videos they show us horror, blood, darkness, skeleton, murder, contorted faces; this makes us to be intense, tensioned and controls our mind and body. Why don’t they show us happy, relaxing, calming figures I think the art is produced to relax us, not to terrify us and be our nightmares. It is even difficult to realize some of the wording, the rhythm, or to see every detail of the beauty of the music. When they are interviewed or talk about they use bad languages- is this the way we have to communicate by insulting and disrespecting each other? It is now a hip to add in every bit of our conversation a seasoning “F”. In any public place-church, schools, meetings, social gatherings…I really hate hate this phenomena. I am from this generation, does that mean I am out dated, old fashioned or primitive? No I am not I respect everyone, let alone human being animals respect each other, if one group passes its limit it is not by no means acceptable. I guess we are better of animals if not….
I respectfully disagree. People make what they want to make out of music. If you view it with an open mind, you are less likely to judge it or look down on it. You say that porn and adultery are immoral, but in other cultures they may be respected. We should not judge things based on our cultural or religious views. For example, there are religions that believe in multiple wives, which to some people would be considered adultery, but to them it is their normal way of life. Calm and quiet music may be pleasant for you, but some people enjoy listening to loud, upbeat music as a way to pump them up and get their adrenaline going. Just because the music is loud does not mean it is in bad taste. I can walk down the street and be passing a Christian church and hear them loudly singing and praising the Lord, and to me, that sounds the same as if I hear someone pass by in a car with their favorite music bumping loudly. If the music makes you happy, then that should be all that matters. Who are we to judge on people’s music tastes? But I guess it is human nature to always pass judgment on other’s views.
ReplyDeleteI'm not going to say that I respectfully disagree, I'll just say that we have different opinon's. I love, love, love music also. I like to listen to Jazz, gosphel, spiritual, and easy listening. Sit down this might hit you hard. I also like nine inch nails, Metallica, Bon Jovi, Easy E, 2-PAC, Icecube, insane clown posse, Mac-10 and Biggie. Does this place me in that group?
ReplyDeleteI agree young people are totally disrespectful, they do use foul lanuage and they are violent. I believe these issues arrise from up-brining. If parents were to step-up and parent their children instead of the tv or radio, I don't feel we'd have these problems.
I don't think you are old fashioned. I think you were brought up correctly.
Not to get to personal, however if you are married or in a relesonship, do you have sex? Do you consider yourself bad as you take in all the beauty of your naked partner? Try to look at this as the tasteless sex art you were describing. Is it really bad? I mean if we did not have clothes we'd all be naked. Matter of fact the good book says we almost were, only Eve ate the apple.
I get what you are saying. I enjoyed reading your blog. We don't have to agree, we should just learn from eachother. thank You for being so frank you made it interesting :)