Fetty Wap Synthesis

Many of us can look back on our adolescence and be mortified by some of the interests and choices we made. Our adult brains make us wonder what we were thinking when we chose to listen to same song on repeat from a band that we now can’t believe we liked. In my case, I can think back to a few musicians I had once loved and now listen in confusion at their appeal and ponder how it was that my mother did not go crazy. The quality of vehicle allows me to make trips and travel while only having the option of listening to the radio. Sometimes, I spend an entire trek searching for a song I like and occasionally come up short. My adult brain does not allow me comprehend why some of the music I hear on the radio is so popular? Last fall I continued to hear and therefore dodge a song that was a whiney, shaky delivery of words with minimal vocabulary and unwitty lyrics of “we just selling dope, talking matching lambos” and “getting high with my baby.” I learned the name of the artist to be, Fetty Wap, and his album called, Fetty Wap, was quickly gaining popularity and climbing the charts. I can appreciate a good beat …show more content…
As a teenager, music is often used and a means to relate to or escape a situation. While some might be able to relate to this song, “Trap Queen,” and how it glorifies the money from selling drugs and appreciating a woman that makes and sells drugs with him, most of us cannot. The adolescent brain relies on the emotional amygdala rather than their underdeveloped, logical frontal lobe. Logical thinking, like that of an adult, hears the ridiculous lyrics of this song whereas the adolescent brain does not focus on them as much. The unusual way he delivers his lyrics, including the way he looks having one eye, immediately attracts the adolescent brain, which is naturally drawn to