Music these days…

I used to listen to American music quite a bit when I was younger but ever since high school and on I rarely do. The music that is playing these days does not appear to have that same catchy-ness and connecting to your mind and soul. When I turn on the radio, today’s music gets old and tiring very quickly after you constantly listen to it over and over again. It feels as if artists have lost touch with their own style of music and now use what works for them - mainstream, with similar sounding tunes and lyrics or just very repetitive lyrics. Now it lacks uniqueness and distinction between all kinds of music.

In my personal opinion, the high point of music lasted to the very early 2000’s and after maybe 2003, it just went downhill. When I hear a song played back in the 90’s, 80’s, and event the late 70’s and I would sing along with it and get caught up in the song. An example would be the boy bands like Backstreet Boys and N*Sync, which now looking back the lyrics are cheesy and corny but very catchy, somewhat innocent, and we can relate to. It was expressing our own personal feelings and literally putting what we had in our heart, into spoken words. It was memorable. Same thing can be said funk and disco – Bee Gees’s “Fever Night” and Earth, Wind, & Fire’s “September” has a beat that attracts you and makes you want to dance or Genesis’s “In the Air Tonight” brief drum solo before the chorus or the late Michael Jackson’s “Beat It”, “Billie Jean”, and “Thriller”.

I appreciate my parents playing the radio stations that still play old hits even though I refused to acknowledge that I like them when I was a kid. Obviously many of the songs were played before I was born but they are considered gems to what is being played now. The feelings, emotions, personality those songs had captured my heart. I’m not into the big names that are here today such as the whole Bieber fever or Lady Gaga and her strange tastes in fashion. If given a choice to listen to music that is playing now or just turn it off, I would turn it off and play my own set of music in my mind instead of making my ears bleed.