Today I think I had a sort of revelation.
I really do love music.
This shouldn't have been a question since I have been studying music nearly all of my life. But today as I was spending time on YouTube looking at some new music, I came across some videos of the teen boy group Mindless Behavior. OK, well why was I watching these videos? I think I came across a comment mentioning them in one of the videos by Hi-Five that I love to watch and listen to.( by the way.... Hi-Five may not have been as popular as MB, but they must have been enough for MB to sample the song "Kissing Game")
Ok. so this was not a huge shocker to me, but it makes me think. Maybe each generation really is just repeating itself, with the trends getting more and more risque, and to my dismay, the music getting worse and worse, with only a few select artists able to put out music that really speaks, not just with a beat you can dance to, but with some music you can feel and connect with.
Now you know where the videos of Mindless Behavior led me to right?
B2K.... so a lot of the comments on the B2K videos were about Mindless Behavior. And I know I'm not the only one that compares the lead singers of both of the above mentioned groups. But I thought, why am I even comparing the two. The differences in the music of different generations is just showing us how young people are really drawn to the same things, no matter what decade they were born in. I believe that it is true that one group is imitating the other, but this is only natural, since music has been evolving all the time. The only thing that seems to have gotten left behind over the last couple of years is the message in the song. No one really takes the time to circulate the music with message. I know it exists, its just not the music we hear on the radio and see in the music videos on TV.
So... Take a chance and listen to some music that not only sounds good, but that truly speaks volumes.
