Talent from the 1960’s vs. Today’s I’ve always wondered what happened to the music industry? What happened to the simpler music about love and peace? Now a-days there’s hardly ever any meaning to lyrics. All we here about are breakups, parties, the luxurious life that these artists are living, or artists hating on other people. We have artists that always take it that extra step when it comes to tuning their voices on their tracks that it makes them sound like robots, or take it that extra step that when they go to sing live they’re terrible. Although today’s music industry does have great musicians and some bad ones, the sixties is the era of true and incredible talent. Looking at this in a musicians’ perspective, many popular hits, especially
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They had the type of music that would just make you get up and dance to the groovy beats or you couldn’t help but sing along. Now a-days it’s been replaced by what some people say has hardly no meaning to it, rap. Not every rap song out there has no meaning to it, there are a couple of songs that do have a meaning and an important message that is crossed over by the lyrics. Rap music usually is portrayed very violently, usually talking about drug abuse, stealing, sex, and sometimes even murder, where on the other hand soul is usually about love or getting over somebody. Psychedelic music was another genre of music that was very expressed in during this time period. It helped people on expressing themselves in society. Many songs were about freedom, social justice, and love. Yes, psychedelic music was closely aligned with the drug culture in the 1960’s but drugs have been closely aligned with the industry for many years, especially in today’s society.
Music today has been taken over by what the media thinks it should be, and what producers think will be the best selling. It’s all about the fame and money now. Instead of original artists like The Beatles, Janis Joplin, Rolling Stones, etc., artists now are losing their originality and becoming what everyone else wants them to be. Instead of wearing everyday clothes …show more content…
Many artists like Whitney Houston, Elvis Presley, Diana Ross, Frank Sinatra, etc. were all artists that didn’t write their own songs, just like Ice Cube wrote Boyz-N-The-Hood for Eazy-E, and Skeme wrote Fancy for Iggy Azalea, and so on. This doesn’t mean that they’re not good or great singers. This just means that they can’t write, or they need help writing.
I’m not here trying to bash on today’s music, because in reality there are many great artists out there today that continue to grow and become better. The fact is that it’s easier to become something now then it was during the 1960’s. With the help of technology, amazing song writers and producers, a catchy beat, and the media, anyone can become a famous singer in today’s
They had the type of music that would just make you get up and dance to the groovy beats or you couldn’t help but sing along. Now a-days it’s been replaced by what some people say has hardly no meaning to it, rap. Not every rap song out there has no meaning to it, there are a couple of songs that do have a meaning and an important message that is crossed over by the lyrics. Rap music usually is portrayed very violently, usually talking about drug abuse, stealing, sex, and sometimes even murder, where on the other hand soul is usually about love or getting over somebody. Psychedelic music was another genre of music that was very expressed in during this time period. It helped people on expressing themselves in society. Many songs were about freedom, social justice, and love. Yes, psychedelic music was closely aligned with the drug culture in the 1960’s but drugs have been closely aligned with the industry for many years, especially in today’s society.
Music today has been taken over by what the media thinks it should be, and what producers think will be the best selling. It’s all about the fame and money now. Instead of original artists like The Beatles, Janis Joplin, Rolling Stones, etc., artists now are losing their originality and becoming what everyone else wants them to be. Instead of wearing everyday clothes …show more content…
Many artists like Whitney Houston, Elvis Presley, Diana Ross, Frank Sinatra, etc. were all artists that didn’t write their own songs, just like Ice Cube wrote Boyz-N-The-Hood for Eazy-E, and Skeme wrote Fancy for Iggy Azalea, and so on. This doesn’t mean that they’re not good or great singers. This just means that they can’t write, or they need help writing.
I’m not here trying to bash on today’s music, because in reality there are many great artists out there today that continue to grow and become better. The fact is that it’s easier to become something now then it was during the 1960’s. With the help of technology, amazing song writers and producers, a catchy beat, and the media, anyone can become a famous singer in today’s