Many peoples are more interested about and focusing on the classical music, blues, and country music, also jazz which from African Americans. The trend of American music still influences the people; however, the mainstream of the music has been changed. In nowadays world, the Korean pop music (K-pop) is getting famous and spread to the globe. K-pop including electronic music, hip-hop, R&B and more, that is under the term Korean Wave which also known as Hallyu that in Korean language. (Desideri, 2013) It became the latest trend that lets many peoples are paying attention and have the interest on Hallyu, especially the younger generation.
How Does Rap Music Effect Teenagers? “Without music life, would be a mistake”- Friedrich Nietzsche Music has always plays an important role in our society and it is a part of our life as we grow up. Music is something that is totally subjective, different people has different taste of music and each type of music can have a different impact on the one listening to it. Some music can makes you feel relaxing, some makes you feel excited and some may even makes you feel depress or sad after listening to it. Music has the power to affect teenager or youth so parents have always been worried about the music teenagers listen to and the negative effects on teens, rap and heavy metal music are considered to be the form of music that have negative
Even while the Stones were high as a kite, they managed to tour for three straight years and perform nightly. Although one should not do drugs due to the health hazards, the Stones made singing, dancing, and playing instruments look ridiculously easy while they were looped out of their minds on drugs. Trademarks such as the Rolling Stones’ tongue and lip logo, which was designed in the image of Mick Jaggers’ mouth and lips by John Pasche in 1970, have set them apart from other bands. Also, being introduced as the “Greatest Rock ‘n’ Roll Band in the World” has definitely given them the extra glam factor that set them over the
Numerous violent events have been blamed on this dark genre. While this genre is largely controversial, the dark lyrics function for regular people as a vent for their anger instead of a provoker for it. Today, true heavy metal is all but dead. It is the music of yesteryear, giving way to the largely successful hip hop movement. but heavy metal’s oldest son, hard rock, is doing very well today with bands like disturbed and five finger death punch still releasing albums that are certified gold and sometimes even platinum.”billboard top 100, 2010” Hard rock in general has more clean vocals than heavy
More than 1.2 billion songs are downloaded for free each year. Many record labels and associations have tried to stop these illegal act for a long time. Still, music piracy is a crime people commit without any guilt every day. According to The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), piracy is a music theft that has damaged impact for artists and all music creator. However, when looking from another perspective, music piracy actually plays a major role in defining success and it is definitely beneficial for the artists throughout the world.
And it is not just about the evolution of music. Technological advancement has helped instant sharing of music, global presence, and contact between fans and artists has much harm just as it has done well. It is with this technology that some musicians have grown lazy and only sample other peoples songs or re-mix them instead of creating new music. Take them back to the 80’s and they will just be wannabes. Is it a wonder that the best selling album of all time comes this same decade?
“The Black Eyed Peas are an American pop group, consisting of rappers, will,I,am, apl.de.ap, Taboo and a female singer Fergie. The group of artists were originally founded in 1995 in Los Angeles and have together sold an estimated 76 million records which shows how influential they are in the pop industry. The Black Eyes Peas have won 8 American Music Awards, 2 Billboard Music Awards, 6 Grammy Awards, 5 NRJ Music Awards, 4 Teen Choice Awards and 3 World Music Awards in 15 years. The Black Eyed Peas are one of the most successful pop groups in history wining 87 awards out of 116 nominations. A few years ago, the positive and upbeat tunes of their songs set the Black Eyes Peas apart from most bands at that time”( “Black Eyed Peas” ,n.d).
Fleetwood struggled with many of their problems, but won a Platinum and Grammy award for their music, and got inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, making Fleetwood Mac one of the most emotional and one one of the greatest bands of the 20th century. Interested In Music Most people know Fleetwood Mac is a Rock and Roll band, but that’s not how they started. Fleetwood actually started as a blues band (Lowe, 2004). Originally a blues band, a little later in their career
Hippies promoted a laid-back, nonconformist lifestyle, which included frequent drug use; thus, the movement generated a massive uproar in the American community. Consequently, the hippie subculture has often been subjected to an in-accurate, stereotyped image. Over the years, there has been an unreasonable amount of prejudice against hippies and their culture. While I have always been particularly interested in the hippie subculture, I must admit that there are many things I was not aware of before I began working on this assignment, apart from the way they were portrayed in movies and magazines. For instance, I used to believe that the hippie movement was merely a “trend”.
Yes, no doubt these children will have something in common, which is idolizing the singer, but they carry with them bad values that has been portrayed by the singer. Once a value is transmitted via the mass media, there is a long-term change in values and this is the issue of how values get transmitted over generations (St. Clair & A. Busch, 2000). This leads to the next point which is most of the time viewers do not have the full ability to differentiate good and bad values that is projected by the mass media. A lot of these are projected from music, television, film, reality shows and most importantly the social media as well. When the mass media projects something for the audiences, it creates an image of portrayal for the eyes of society to “follow”.