Music: Luxury Or Necessity?

The Sound of Life
Music: Luxury or Necessity? The world has transformed to adapt to new technologies into a place where humans, the organic beings are plugged into inorganic or mechanical machines at almost any given point in the day. The recent developments of television, cellular devices, and media players makes everyone a techno-wizard in some regard. One of the categories electrical equipment can be categorized into is that of music. Music can be listened to in person at concerts or other public displays or on any number of devices such as CD Players, iPods, MP3 Players, or apps like Pandora and Sound Cloud. Obviously, music is a very large portion of today’s society. The real question however, is whether music is a luxury or a necessity …show more content…
Musicians over the ages have made contemporary as well as classical pieces of music. While some of the new hit songs are simply written for the money the artist will make when they are played in the dance club every night, a lot of other songs are written with specific people or subject matter in mind. Every love song that has ever been written was based off a person that the musician found attractive and worthy enough to write a song about. Music has no limitations, it can be either sad or happy, loving or angry, and any mood you can think of can be expressed through a musical interpretation of it. The free form of music allows everyone to express themselves through it, and much like novels, there can be underlying or hidden themes throughout pieces of music. Even music that doesn’t include spoken words or singing can be an expression of the artist. A guitar play would most likely play two very contrasting pieces if you asked him to play while he was sad and while he was happy. As you can see, whether it is lyrical composition or simply playing an instrument, music is one of the foremost ways humans can express