Music has been a part of my life since I can remember, I can recall sitting with my Grandpa in his auto shop listening to blue grass, Jazz, Johnny Cash, And of course his favorite Elvis. As I grew up the more I began to love pop music. Which in my time were N’sync, Backstreet Boys, 98 Degrees, Destiny Child, and my favorite the Spice Girls. All sorts of other hip and cool bands… I don’t know if it was the cheesy love songs or the pleather they wore, but I was in love with them.
When I was growing up was during the times that pop and hip hop was becoming a huge success. All the kids were listening to all the hot new boy bands, and forgetting about all the classic old singers from back in the day. Country, Jazz, and all the older soul music was being pushed onto the back burner by our generation. Pop were cheesey up-beat love songs, while hip hop was about getting money and having fun being rebellious.
The music of our generation I think was not in any way like the music our parents had listened to while growing up. They had classic country and rhythm and blues, the type with the big house bands and sang about hard working men and lonely women.
I feel like our parents felt we were filling our heads with garbage, because the saw the music we listened to as not morally correct or that it taught any lessons to use. It was just meaningless lyrics about teenage love, cars, and money to them. I think that the generation before us saw music as another way to learn and at the same time have a good time listening to it.
I believe that parents think kids should get something out of music, but then us kids thought music was just a good beat with random words put to it. The generation before ours I think is realizing that music is an always evolving subject, you never know where it’s going to take you next nor the daring things it can do…
