Music, videos, and raps. You and I are addicted and it’s undeniable. I burst into tears over Ed Sheeran, fangirl over my biases for HOURS, and oh how I felt like a meth addict searching desperately through my wallet coin by coin just to buy the latest album. But I can’t play any of the songs out loud in the house because my parents are going to think that I’m seriously messed up in the head if they see me listening to songs that says “your booty don’t need explaining” or “tried to domesticate ya” and “grab on my waist and put that body on me”. Man I tell you, songs have been evolving. Singers and song writers are more cunning than ever. Preying on our minds and fishing up our money with what seems to be their latest and greatest weapon, sex and drugs. Actually, to be …show more content…
I totes agree with Ludwig van Beethoven who stated “music can change the world”, and Van Morrison who said “music is spiritual. The music business is not”. Music was once sacred. Music allowed the listener to explore and experience world from other people’s perspective. Often the pleasure it offers is intense, changing emotional edges, insecurities and vulnerabilities as well as triumphs and antagonism of life into hypnotic experience. It was the music business that polluted this “art” with sex and drugs. We live in a society today where kids look up to singers and rappers. Where else do you think this whole idea of being skinny, white, and blond with big bust and nice body came from? Women are now objectifying themselves because that is the norm presented in the music videos we watch. And we can’t change unless we stop listening to these songs and watching these music videos. Hey all you need to do is just be a bit more cautious and aware of what you’re listening to rather than just blindly accepting it like gospel. Yes music can definitely change the world but the question is, what is the world going to change