Music In Music: The Importance Of Music

The intent of music is to capture emotion and share it with the listener, so they can understand the experience being expressed by the artist. Music is used as white noise in the grocery store or at the gym. While people see music as a waste of time causing people to spend millions of dollars on useless soundtracks that you love at the moment but will be tired of in a week. For these reasons, music is worthless because it has lost its original intent.
The dominating modern genre of music known as pop, though popular, has become redundant. Lyrically, modern artists focus on the same topics of drugs, sex, and lustful love. For instance, Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams were taken to court over the similarities between their song Blurred Lines

Artists like Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez have used this technique in their music. Bieber mixed pop and Electronic Dance Music (EDM) in his hit song What Do You Mean released August 30, 2015. Merging multiple genres is not necessarily negative. Artists such as, Twenty One Pilots, Pink, and Adele often use this in their music adding to the quality of their music. Pink and Adele began using the style from older songs in 2013 for songs like Just Give Me A Reason or Someone Like You. These songs are beautiful ballads about love, which use an older style of music to effectively deliver a soulful message of lost love and mimic the style of Whitney Houston And I Will Always Will Love You. These are soulful love ballads permeates with the hearts of it’s listeners and has remained iconic because of the strong yet simple message it has. Music takes on a role which comforts, builds up, warns, inspires and helps heal a broken

For example, the roaring twenties was the time of jazz and the transition from an upright conservative view of fashion and customs to a loose and more flashy style. This music trend began in New Orleans with the blues and ragtime eventually forming what is known as jazz that has given the world artists like, Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington. From there music transitioned to rock, disco, and pop. Artists like Elvis, Michael Jackson and Queen have helped shape the direction of music. Michael Jackson, the King of Pop, began his career with The Jackson 5 where he eventually took up a solo career producing hits like, Thriller and Beat It. Jackson shaped the hearts of his fans around the world through his music. The transitions that music took with the changes of war, human rights, and the fight for independence was shaped by the changes in the world. Music began to have more depth in the change of sounds and beat. From David Bowie’s Space Oddity in 1969 to Bee Gee’s Stayin’ Alive in 1979 and Toto’s Africa in 1982. The time of disco transitioned into what is known as