The words of a song can shift your emotions to make you feel contentment and merriment but it can also make you feel worthless and insulted. In your essay “Songs of the Summer of 1963… and 2013” you speak of the difference in music in the year of 1963 and how it was gleeful and uplifting and still is but you believe the music of this generation is so discrediting and malign. In my opinion, I agree this music can be extremely offensive to many people and it is saddening that we have to come to a time in the world when it’s a daily normality to hear the word “nigga” in a song or to hear women referred to as “bitches” and “hoes”. The music we hear today should be changing the way we feel by making a great difference in the world and unifying us as people not bringing us apart with derogatory statements in songs.
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One of the songs you speak of in your essay called “One love” by Bob Marley he says “Let’s get together and feel alright” these lyrics can make a community feel unified and feel as if there is hope for us to one day to look around and be happy in the place we are with the people around us. Unlike other songs that use such malicious words that does nothing to help the crisis of racism, downgration of women, sexualization of people and etc. Bob Marley was a famous singer and he took that to his advantage by writing “One Love’ and making a difference so people can have a sense of amalgamation. Bruce Springsteen utilized it for the benefit of people also by using it as a “healing anthem” as you stated in one of his concerts after the 9/11 attacks and by doing this he created some peace for those people who were mourning after such a wretched moment in
One of the songs you speak of in your essay called “One love” by Bob Marley he says “Let’s get together and feel alright” these lyrics can make a community feel unified and feel as if there is hope for us to one day to look around and be happy in the place we are with the people around us. Unlike other songs that use such malicious words that does nothing to help the crisis of racism, downgration of women, sexualization of people and etc. Bob Marley was a famous singer and he took that to his advantage by writing “One Love’ and making a difference so people can have a sense of amalgamation. Bruce Springsteen utilized it for the benefit of people also by using it as a “healing anthem” as you stated in one of his concerts after the 9/11 attacks and by doing this he created some peace for those people who were mourning after such a wretched moment in