Mötley Crüe

Some differences took place between 1970's and 1980's music. An alteration has needed to embed some new genre. The rock or merely rock music is a contemporary musical genre aimed to encompass each of the various derivative genres of rock and roll. Usually interpreted, among many other instruments are added occasionally, with guitar, drums, and bass. Many styles of the genre also use keyboard instruments, for example, saxophone, piano, Synthesizers. This platform usually has a strong obstacle,…

Many famous people, specifically musicians, are often negatively portrayed by their peers and the media. Due to this, many parents and guardians believe that listening to metal music leads adolescents into a world of drugs, mental illness, and even suicide. However, experts have shown that listening to this stimuli, actually does not lead to bad behavior, and can even have positive effects. Metal music has been put down since the start, but it culminated in 1985 when D. Snider of Twisted…

A question that constantly comes to mind is whether or not the rich have an advantage within the court system. In other words, do the rich get off of punishments easier? This question has been engraved into my thoughts since my youth. On one side of the question, some people are under the impression that the rich have an even playing field as those who are not as wealthy. The reasons that the rich are let off easier from punishments are infinite. Take the court case of Oscar Pistorius.…

Soundtrack to My Life Have you ever just sat down and thought about your life and then put music to it? That’s kind of what I’m here to talk about. The other day it was raining and when I went to go take a nap I caught myself thinking about all the things that’s happened in my life, good and bad. It just so happened I was listening to music while I was laying there. So just naturally I started putting music to the situations and I realized I’m a person that likes a wide range of music. For…

A Perspective of Rock and Roll’s Impact on Society “Rock and roll keeps you in a constant state of juvenile delinquency,” stated Eddie Spaghetti; this quote captures the essence of Rock and Roll. It speaks its truth about the influence on attitudes towards authority and implies how society reacted to the new revolution created by Rock and Roll, transforming the world into what it has become today. The music of rock and roll influenced the social and cultural beliefs of youth and threatened the…

Piracy Piracy is defined as the copying and distributing of copies of a piece of music for which the composer, recording artist, or copyright-holding record company did not give consent. (Neuwirth, 2014) It is difficult to know exactly when and where the first instances of piracy occurred but there is evidence to show that composers as old as Beethoven where affected. “Both he (Beethoven) and his publisher had to contend with piracy by rival publishers who brought out editions of their own.”…

want to be in the front row of the concert. Being there for so long, I had struck up a conversation with a family of metalheads I was standing with. Long hair, cutoff band tees, chains, and tattoos, they were as stereotypical as characters from a Mötley Crüe or Iron Maiden music video. I was drawn to the tattoos of this one 40-something woman with dyed red hair. Her arms were covered in signatures, tiny black snakes slithering across her wrists and elbows. Names of various rock stars and movie…

Introduction The top two selling music genres of 2014 were Rock and Roll, with eighty-eight million, two hundred and fifty-thousand albums sold, and Rhythm and Blues, also known as R&B, with thirty-five million, seven hundred and fifty-thousand albums sold (Statista.com). Selling billions of dollars worth of albums, singles, concert tickets, and merchandise every year, the artists at the forefront of these two genres are more than successful and saying so would be an understatement. Those same…