Phils Last Blog the Saga has ended. NO NEED HAYDEN CHRISTIAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Okay this is the big one , the final , the bacon , the eggs and of course for the course cheese. Yeah enough of all that blabber talk this class has come to an end an end of blogging I would have never found my self blogging since the name is kind of weird but beyond my intelligent thinking I would like to comment on the intense amount of work that has been done in the name of English 101. If I am going to barely pass by my the slim of my haggard boots i will do it in style. Okay the things that I have learned firstly is stay on top of your work. I cannot stress more importantly than to stay on top of what you are doing for me that was the tie breaker to end all tie breakers. I would have had a ton of free time if just stayed on top of my work. Secondly and probably the most important is that I learned about music. I really enjoyed the songs we learned about and the many insane ways that music has influenced many people in a variety of genres. This class was kind of like my history of rock and roll class except the teacher with the psudo mullet randomly saying Dylan was a poet and preaching about the insanity of Phil Spectar was not present, but this class did have a certern enjoyable vibe if you will. Now I as I stated before I am probably the most uninformed music person there is I survived by the synopsis my buddies used to give me about band culture since I am a techno freak. What I can take from this point is that I can enjoy a variety of music and understand the meanings of the beats or vocals or even the energy that is being displayed in the songs. But besides my ignorance and love for bad ass tunes I must say learning about music and culture was really fun and interesting I never realized that I could learn so much depth about culture from music. The other important stuff was the amazing apperication for writing I never knew that I can fully express my ideas on paper and wow I said some crazy stuff as well as some dumb stuff but I am still learning!. Another thing I learned is how much fun blogs could be I never really cared for blogs since I always thought the name was weird but recently I have become like the monarch from The Venture Brothers. I really found this class to also be challenging. It was challenging in the fact that the papers where hard I am currently aiming to get my research paper on the ready for the final on Friday and the timed writing is going to be hard because I will have to unload a flurry of ideas that make sense so I can pass this course besides all my ranting and raving my opinion stands in that I will come out on top in this class or die trying.

Writings through time it was the REPS !!!!!!!!!!

As this tedious yet interesting class comes to a dramatic end I ponder on my writing ability? Did I get better or did I stay the same trapped in my own personal bubble of Philness? What ever the case maybe my writing has improved in many areas. I think firstly my writing as improved in the areas of creativity . I think that writing is one of the most creative things you can do because of the many different ways and topics you could write about. In my own personal writing I began to think really what was the meaning behind every thing so what I did was use a semi bias's opinion on what i was reading. I found that keeping an open mind in my writing helped me really expand on what i was writing. I remember when I used to hate writing but now I dont mind writing as such a tedious task. Some of the ways my writing has gotten better would be in just consistent practice. I find if you consistently practice at one thing you will get good at it. The readings where fun they where around the music culture , since I am one dimensioned on the subject I found my self actually liking the music lovers genre. The writing I enjoyed the most was on Kurt Cobain and Ice Cube they really made me think on what their genres really stood for and still stand for. The blogs in this class are killer even though I am not a gigantic fan of blogging its still kinda fun to post your opinion every once in a while and it's really fun when you have the craziest stuff come out of your mouth. But my main pet peeve with the blogs are the time consumption. Man it takes me at least thirty minutes to do one single blog but in the grand scheme of things I can see the principle of the more you can dish out i writing the easier it will become for the writer to come out with new ideas. The essay writing was pretty solid I enjoy most of them expect for the research paper I still have no idea how i am going to edit that monster but I will have to buckle up and edit this piece because this time theirs no holding back on my papers. The PDRs are nice because it gives you a sense of what other peoples ideas are not to steal the ideas but to use similar ideas for your own paper. Also pier feedback is important because pier feedback helps you cut out the nonessential of your papers and I know I am one to have a ton of unnecessary stuff.The discussion boards where pretty cool I found that the questions where all based on our writings and I remember the first thing I posted was something crazy like " I am drinking A FORTY DIPPING ON DUBS" maybe that's not what I posted but its similar in stupidity.All and all I must say my writing has increased to a higher degree.

Paper or Plastic is Boz Scaggs the Casheir?

Now I have expressed my hate for little Wayne and garbage like Gucci mane but let's take five leaping steps back or forward to some good stuff. In the music world there is two types of artist the first of which is the artist who makes music for money and grandeur or Gucci Mane this type of artist seeks only to forward the dollar and lacks any kind of creative skill necessary to survive. The second of which is the real musician who makes music for money but a sense they know music has influence on people. Now the genre I listen to is Electronic Dance which some people call robot music regardless of this claim there is one group that rocks my socks called Infected Mushroom. Infected Mushroom is an electronic a group that incorporates a diverse use of inurnments to play their music. They have a Dj , a guitar player , a singer and a crazy ass drummer. It sounds like a crazy cocktail but it's really cool because the way they set up their music is very unique and talented. Some of their songs aren't that good but who to say every musician has platinum on every thing they produce. To me infected mushroom is crazy they come at you with crazy lyrics and hard power solos and the drummer is going crazy as well as the Dj mixing everything in together. Infected Mushroom puts on one hell of a show for its audience and without a doubt they sound just as clean as they do on the radio. Their originality with there tracks gets them get into almost every show in LA for every big festival. As crazy as infected mushroom there is the dark-side of creativity or plastic. The band I say without a doubt is the most crap is either Jim Jones or Sean Kingston. Now I don't hate Sean Kingston but if you listen to his lyrics it sounds like crap. Their is absolutely no creative bone in that dudes body. Another thing I rag on is the presentation of Sean Kingston its not that’s he is fat its they are playing him as the nice fat guy that can sing that’s not cool shoot not every fat person can sing. The song suicidal is just awful they could have talked about pop tarts and I would have wanted to eat pop tarts instead of Offing My self over some chick. Jim Jones song not only kills the black community it kills any thought process on how we as a society are to express our selves in musical form. So yeah Sean Kingston is pretty bad , Jim Jones follows second with his song about stealing and ballin . So if you want to lose brain cells listen to Sean Kingston or Jim Jones. So the question is what are going to listen to will it the soothing voice of John Legend ,the sensation of Lady Gaga or will it be crap like Barry Manilow?.

Phil Garcia VS the Horendous Beast of a Research Paper . Can He surrive

First off I must say in my defense and to the defense of my fallen comrade’s research papers suck! Don't do them they kill like cigarettes and fast food. No just kidding actually research paper is going along very slow but in that defense I have a really good layout of how i am going to write about so my structure is never bad upon my papers its just going to be the tedious work of finding the elaborate amount of sources that I need to implement into the luxurious work that I will create for this stupendous assignment. This paper I believe is the final paper but as for a final six pages of beastly writing multiple sources and an ungodly amount of time really speak words for me. My plans for furthering my success in this class I must complete this assignment with perfect form. As for my paper I am writing it on Heavy Metal. Heavy Metal as a genre is both loved and hated by people every where. Conservatives and church goers call it the devils music and most people can stand the extreme amount of macho manliness that is in the music but beyond the genres flaws reveal a style that is extremely hard. It is the hardness of the style that leads the style to be broken and reinvented in to many subcategories like Thrash metal, NU Metal and Tech Metal. Metal in it self is a very powerful and misunderstood style that puts its critics to question its lyrics and symbolic references against deity’s and established governments. My main idea for this paper is give the idea that heavy metal isn’t a cult inspired genre of music nor is it a music genre that embraces violence but is a genre that shows raw manliness and power driven ballads. Some of the difficulties that I am finding are in my sources. I have a few sources on pro Metal ideas but finding any thing negative about the genre is hard. In order to find actual criticism on the style I might have to read or reference a book on the subject but Heavy Metal is almost a dead style so it’s hard to find any kind of references on the subject without running into old on the subject. In order to complete this assignment I will also need proper ways to quote my assignment with the materials that I will be reading for the information. The assignment it self is really hard too because not only is Heavy metal a largely diverse genre but it is a genre with a lot of cult following not pre say is it like Jim Jones cult but Army Darkness cult culture where a small group still loves metal and only metal. Finally I really want to try to put some steel panther references in my paper now I know steel panther is a goof ball band but they do have a small number of die hard fans that follow them. I believe the sum of my paper will come down to defending the Heavy Metal Fan base and explaining how they are a pop culture cult.

King of Blogging Week 12 Johnny Depp is Robbing us Blind

Internet piracy is a big deal nowadays with the explosion of Napster and other media sharing devices can be considered as piracy. I remember about a couple years back when lime wire was really big and I could get all the free movies and music I wanted. Now I know stealing music and movies is not right by any meanings necessary but still i must have stolen a lot of stuff. Now that I am older I think about how much money I must have been stealing and its like dang I really stole like thousands of dollars of music but you know little did I know who I was hurting because every one was doing the whole Lime wire and or portal downloads. Needless to say that file sharing is a crime that puts the music industry in terrible shape. I mean look how many music portals there are now for downloading MP3's . The music industry is tied to the FBI in its attempts to stop Pirates from illegally downloading songs. I think that piracy hurts the companies very harshly because the companies lose revenue on the sells that they should have made. I you figure they lose about a dollar a song but in the grand scheme of things if over a million people download one song that's like losing a million dollars its sad but in reality pirates are no joke to the music industry and hurt its economic abilities to produce even better music. The laws the they have are crazy too for instance if you get caught with bootleg movies you go to jail for a serious amount of time and the FBI is not joking they do catch and prosecute people for piracy. The musicians get hurt a lot too because the musicians are the ones who are like puppets in the industry all the money goes to the producers and the musicians are like the artist and figure heads that get paid the least and suffer the most with the payouts. The truth is that Musicians lose the power of copyright on their tracks and that sucks because the tracks that they spent time on making aren’t really theirs a good anoglie to make for this would be that if I make the Mona Lisa than that painting is under my name but still the right of ownership is not mine its under the company that I have signed with to paint the picture so in reality I would have no legal rights to that painting. The same concept goes for musicians who strive to make a name for them selves. It sucks but the fact is that people download music hurt the music industry in a very bad way if I made music than I would be pissed because its my hard work being messed around with by people who don’t want to pay and that shows musicians who are really fans are not by purchasing the songs they strive to make.

Thriller this COMMERICAL!!!!!!!!

In this weeks discussion we learn about how a song can sell a product. Now it’s a given in any situation that commercials use music in their advertisement to sell their products. But one company has come to a serious halt when they are selling their product. The company spirit has used some of Michael Jackson’s music to sell their Halloween costumes but the commercial is just dreadful when it comes to the way they represented that song. The commercial is about a minute long and has people dancing and waving their hands while they show off the costumes they are selling Now I dislike the comerical lot because it disgraces the majesty of Thriller. It’s not that I am a Michael Jackson fan or anything its that people use his music to sell their busted Halloween costumes I mean it sucks because Jackson is pop culture icon and seeing a bunch of dorks running around in a commercial for a Halloween ad is repulsive the representation of thriller is done very poorly in the commercial. An example of the stupidity is at the last part of the chorus in the song the commercial puts a stupid baby laughing like a devil. Now that sucks to have your art and good name being smashed on by a Halloween ad, I know that the Thriller music video had zombies and ghouls but the song was good and the dancing was incredibly intense and too compare garbage Halloween costumes with thriller is dumb. A major point to my shallow yet sensible agreement is the payment to the Jackson family royalties. Musicians make a fortune off of people who use their music. An example would be in the use of Bruce Lee and the Jeet Kune Do name people can’t use Bruce Lee’s name or image without first paying to the Lee family royalties. That to me is bogus because it cheapens the art of the artist. The artist should have his art to be displayed in formal fashion and very respectfully but families like the Lees and Jackson’s endorse and surrender their souls for a dollar at the drop of a hat. Seeing artist and musicians’ like Alice Cooper is really stupid because you see this crazy dude who’s supposed be down with the conformist society saling school supplies for staples. I think if your message is to be the either the greatest pop musician ever or one of the most influencing rocker than live up to the name .Selling worthless crap like cheerios and school supplies isn’t cutting it artistically and it send the message to the audience and your fans that you are a sale out phony. For me when I think of Bruce Lee’s family royalties it sucks because allot of people look up to Lee and for him to have his name make more money dead while alive is trippy. Wheatear it’s Michael Jackson, the Smashing Pumpkins, the grateful dead or any other group being a sale out it’s cool towards the fan base and it deadens the art of the artist.

Week 10 Gangsters Paradise

There are many different types of music but none what so ever hit the urban city culture like the genre gangster rap. Rap has a lot of negative influences in it but the stories of gangster rap are told of hard lives in an environment for the less fourtant of people in the United States. How can someone bring the pain of his upbringing out into the media showing the glimpses of reality in the city streets? Coolie’s gangsta paradise is a song that embraces the gangster feel and life in it’s very monotone lyrics and hard words. The music video is very interesting it shows Coolio raping to Michelle Pfeiffer about his experiences as a gangster. The music video is very dark and ominous because he starts to preach his problems to a white woman alone in candle lite room barley able to make out his face within the darkness. Other parts of video show the heavy set man singing in a dark room crying as if he is troubled by the pain of the life he choose a good example of this is in the lyrics of
We've been spending most our lives
Living in the Gangsta's Paradise
In the music video Coolio is singing to Pfeiffer about the problems . As he sings the scenes in the video change from a heavy set singing and crying about his painful experiences with his choices , other parts include scenes from the movie dangerous minds in which Michelle Pfeiffer plays a hard knock school teacher bent on saving a troubled school deep in LA. Some of the songs lyrics are pretty intense there’s a church inspired chorus that sings through out song making a more emotional feel to it. Lyrics like”
“As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death
I take a look at my life and realize there's nuttin left “and
I'm the kinda G the little homies wanna be like
On my knees in the night
Sayin prayers in the street light

These lyrics have religious notations attached to them that puts a deep feel into the songs meaning of a persons ideal life on the streets . My personal belief about the song is that the song expresses the ideas of a gang bangers life style is life on the edges. Coolio expresses the ideas of life being very falsified by theb hard life killing , and gangbanging in the lyrics of
I'm livin life do-or-die-a, what can I say?
I'm twenty-three now, but will I live to see twenty-fo'?
The way things is goin I dunno

This song and music video is really challenging too the listener because it speaks the truth about the life style of a intercity gang banger who lives are shorten by violence , crime and drugs . I found the song and music video to be a delight and I can hope that hip hop goes back to its truthful roots of what really happens in life.

Week 9's Fantastic Review o

In wake of my spring break I have decided to roll big this time on dubs. In today’s industries society people seem to put up a front and the every so youthful generation is looking for someone to keep it real. Eminem or Marshall Meathers is a pop icon that hails from Detriot. Eminem’s realistic view point’s have helped younger kids express themselves in a more vibrant way. Though i listen to mostly house and techhouse where lyrics aren't as imcorpated into the music, I do appreciate the greatness of well placed lyrics from the likes of Coldplay, Dido and Metallica. Lyrics are very important because lyrics are what makes the songs message come alive. Lyrics can both have an external an internal point of view to them. An example of external song writer would be John Legend and internal would be Jay Z even though I think he looks a like a koopa from Super Mario’s brothers game. Direct, indirect , hard, soft , violent and peaceful music are all a part of musical influences that shape our world today. Music as a influencer has been in the mind since the days of the ancient Greeks when they said the harmony and rhythm have the ability to control people. I would see Eminem as a person that keeps it real because of his improvised background and hard life growing up in Detroit. Kids react to Eminem because he does not rap about sex, money or a car that he raps about life and simply his attaire proves his philosophy. Teenagers respect the fact that Eminem gives props to his elders, also teenagers respect his love for people being that he loves his daughter very much. The teenage generation is a generation that is looking for heroes and heroines to show them things like values, respect, honor and peace. Not every teenager out there listening to hip hop is looking for sounds their looking for philosophy or a way to become someone. Eminem is a prime example of what young adults are searching for. Eminem is rude , vulgar and speaks the truth well other hip hop artist only talk about foolish things and choices like car’s , booty , boats and wealth. Eminem’s world view is that stuff is garbage and it doesn’t last forever so his message is clearly directed to wake up people from there Americanized lives. I think why the teenage audience follows him so well is because he doesn’t lie or try to be anything that isn’t himself. Eminem’s realistic points of view open the minds of what hip hop culture have been subjected to for years. Hip hop culture needs more people like him to keep a realistic message about life rather than assuming that girls, cars and planes will bring the ultimate truth to life. Now people don’t like him because of his vulgar language against certain people or groups or that some of his lyrics are a little of the wall but to me he is an artist that speaks the truth.

Same old , Same old when is break again?

First off i have never heard or seen David Bowie s music, but what i have seen are his outrageous and bizarre costumes that he would create for himself. When I first see the guy I am like is that a chick or a dude? but I came to realize that he is just performing on stage. My main point is that their are a lot of artist that do crazy stuff in the name of the crowd I mean i remember a story that Ozzie Osborne was so high that he bite a bats head clean off live on stage, or stories like guitarist swinging their guitars and bashing them on the stage. Well in comparison to David Bowie I can say with out a doubt that Lady Gaga is close to none the weridiest chick in the music business. Now I understand that she isn't the preetist face like Brittany Spears or Katy Perry but she has this zazz that screams personality over superficial beauty.Some of her confounding images has to be the multiple maskes she wears while performing. At the 2011 grammys i shall her in some kind of egg and the other year she was in a loud red suit that looked something out of pans labyrinth. Regardless her style has a lot to say about who she is. Her outfits great though I would never ware them express a deep personalty about her character and whats going on in her head. I think that even her music is a reflection of her outrageous personality that manifests it self outwardly. Now this has been done before when you see Elvis Presily or Micheal Jackson wearing clothes that in their time wear out of the ordinary. Dances , clothing , and speech can be a way to express ones inward appearance. When you look at Micheal Jackson's jackets and Jerry curls it just screams girl y but for him it was a way to show his personality. Elvis did the same thing with his hip and leg movement these are examples of how a musician can express themselves outwardly in a outrageous lite. As for my ,modern day opinion no one comes close to Lady gaga in outward performance and appearance. I don't really understand her message to her audience but from what I can gather is that her message has something to do with freedom of expression and release from a world that has chained her down for so long. Most artist like David Bowie will write and display them selves as pieces of art to demonstrate something or just to be weird and out there . Though I think that David Bowie is a weird and comical individual he's choice of freedom of expression has helped artist like Lady Gaga become more and more daring to push the envelope on the music and art that they are creating. David Bowie dressed like a chick , Madonna wore a meta bra and Lady Gaga is something else but these are the characters that are in the music industry today.

Double Dub : Musicans should Lead the way

This is a debate that has been going on since the fringes of MTV consummated it self unto the main stream media and the binding question is that are Music Videos becoming more immoral and reckless in the way that they are portrayed by the public media? In the article I have read it speaks about Madonna who by all means is a symbol for sex. Now the question of moral obligation comes about when Madonna is challenged for her sexuality by the media. Camille Pagilla has stated the art and artist have no moral responsibility to the media. Now by the term she uses to describe moral obligation is the responsibility to not so immorality to the public. It could be a complicated term but as an artist to the people she must set good examples. Since there fore children and teenagers follow her as an idol her examples will be mocked by younger viewers. So to say Madonna has no control of what she is portraying is tacky because Madonna is a spoke person for younger kids so she has to have a good image. Liberal social causes are could be the very fact to release a person for conservative ideals of what the people believe to correct or it could be the mass Medias ideals of what is correct and wholesome for society. For years people have challenged society’s morality with coming out with crazier and more intense or immoral behavior. The liberal media as been on the attack for years since artist like Madonna where bold enough to make a stand against the moral fabric of the nation. Now I believe in the first admen ant right of free speech and right to prosper but some times the music industry takes things a little overboard in the style and approach. Examples of immoral behavior can be seen not to long ago with Lindsey Lohan , Paris Hilton and other high name celebrities like Charlie Sheen who do nothing but endorse partying , and drugs. Drugs and other greengage shouldn’t be apart of the main stream media and the only reason I can think why main stream media had allowed such crap in because the people wanted to have such crap in their lives and cared nothing to get rid of the junk while they had it. If people want to have better morals in America than they must send in suggestions or picket the record companies on what they release to the American people. A lot of people think because they are an artist gives them the right to be an immoral dumb ass but I tell you this that’s not the case in this matter. People regardless will look up to people in power or influence because of their talents. But their talents should help forward people and not lead people into stupidity. Like Spiderman says even though it’s the corniest thing in the world “ With Great Power comes Great Reasonability” and musicians should do like wise with their actions about music.

Rosen Response

Hello Mr.s Rosen I can see that you are writing a letter on music’s effects towards violence. Now I can agree with you that violence is bread by influences but some of the facts are true. In my findings as well as yours Music can be a negative influence to a mass majority of people, but music can also have a positive influence as well or the stall fact that music does not influence or bribe anybody. I myself find it easy to sometimes blame music for sending a corrupt message to the kids or weak minded people who are influenced by it. As you have stated music has served as an outlet for people to be influenced especially young people. Younger people are more influenced by lyrics and music for the burning desire to fit in. Some lyrics do inflect violence to others or more so degrade people by race, religion or different social group. This is a case seen a lot in the gangster rap genre. Most musicians today send a degraded message and most the kids who are influenced are the ones who are insecure and afraid. But the final verdict of influence boils down to the parents of the Kids if the parents are weak than the kids have no fiber to resist any kind of evil in their lives leading them to fall short at every turn. Blaming music is an easir alternative than to say blame bad parenting or teaching because if a kid is taught right then he can just ignore the stupid lyrics and messages vs. the person who has no guidance what so ever. People should take the ratings into consideration the ratings where created to keep parents informed on what their children where listeing to. I wouldn’t want my kids listing to some song just talk about milkshakes and lil kim ,.. I don’t know who sings that song , but my point being is that people should take responsibility in to their own hands because with that kids can be directed to a better path. When music is blamed all the time for the misfourtains of a nation or people I either blame the guardians, blame the teachers , blame the kids for not using common sense or just blame my self because you cant be that stupid to take in lyrics to either cause harm to your self or another person. When the music companies come to together to try to bring a better massage its good because it shows that the companies are starting to give a care about the media that they feed , The people feed of the media and with that good media could bring good results but its ultimately up to the person not the medium that makes the difference for the people. So yes I do think that blaming music for the ultimate problems in society is very immature, very rude, crude and abusive behavior because it lacks concentration on the main focus like friends and family.

Punk Rock ansd its Crtitcs

Paul Cobleys opinion on the phenomenon of punk music is relevant he explains the many different retrospects. Punk music is esstianlly a hated form of rock by the media. The media hates punk rock because of the image that the punk rockers portray to the people. Peoples concern in America about punk is that it is an immoral musical type that influences violence, sex , and blasmephy. Punk at its core roots is counter culturally the scenes fans are often dirty, un shaved, smelly and having bizarre piercings and hair. I remember that in high school their was this punk rock chick I mean she was cool as heck but you could smell her from a mile away. Paul mentions that punk was seen as a national menace and that the music was seen as catosphoric to the Christian churches. Punks true roots come from the anti establishment and garage type music. I believe that the misunderstanding of punk and other forms of music comes from the social stigmata of what people think is moral. A lot of people go around judging other people for not being like them it’s a evident case in the Christian churches where the pastors and priest are supposed to act like Jesus but instead act like the Pharisees who persecuted Christ. The churches where the moral fiber to the world but like an apple tree there are some bad apples. The root is that America for years was a consertive country I mean the gap between 1950’s America and now is pretty amazing I mean in the 1950s no one sweared on TV and now you flip to HBO and the dude is going bonkers on the swear factory. The generational gap is also has a afflicting aspect towards differences of musical taste. If I have someone who is fourteen he wouldn’t want to listen to the Beegees because to him the Beegees aree whack I would assume a fourteen year old would want to listen to Lil Wayne or some other stupid crap but non the less the age gap does play an important factor in the way we address each other. Another factor that comes into play is that the times are changing. The music scene has always changed for a season it’s like every ten years a musical genre will dominate and then it will be crushed by another force of opposition that over takes the scene. Misunderstanding of music can be tragic because the people who listen to any kind of music don’t need to be judged by some crazy moral hypocrite or some government official bashing punk rock because it’s the social norm to outlaw what is unfit in societies laws. Society bases on what’s rights by the moral code or norm of the land but people should get gun hoe about they think is right in their own eyes. Paul Cobely explains that despite the criticism of Punk rock people still dig the music and they still are listening despite the opinions of one social group.

Children of Music!!!

In Blooms Essay he writes about kids having music as their passion. In a sense Bloom correct I believe that Bloom holds his theory correct because from personal experience I remember nothing else being really much about anything besides movies and music. In younger years I used see kids listen to all kinds of music. I remember their was the punk kids, the rockers, the busted trendy kids, Rap kids and the Electro maniacs, Man the cliques where a nightmare the haggard smelly rocker kids never liked the rappers, the busted trendy kids hated the punker kids and everybody hated the techno dudes I got no love in the club there. Even though there was allot of hate and neutral ground about musical taste the main observation was that the every signal person who was a part of some kind of clique all had a massive love for their style . Back then it was all about seggarted styles now days we have so much blended crap it has no real substance in it. Don’t get me wrong I see a lot of great blended styles that where built upon a foundal base but today’s kiss fm crap is so bad I can barely stand the music. My little cousin loves music in fact his major is music based he has a wide variety of knowledge of bands and why bands came into existence his opinions are like a guru and at eighteen years old his passion is defiantly something that Bloom is talking about. Bloom is right in the sense that younger kids are so inspired by what they listen to. I mean when I see younger kids I see them with T-shirts of their Band some kids have shirts of the Ramon’s and then there are the morons that buy Deadmau5 T-shirts not that I have anything against the people I just dislike Deadmau5 passionately. I don’t really think it is much of an over generalization that the kids are addicted to music but I do think that kid’s overextend their personal opinion when it comes to music. I remember a story that my friend Reyco told me about this kid who tried to be exactly like some rock star and he completely changed his story and life to fit the character he was pretending to be kind of weird how music can affect a young kid. Blooms ultimate point is that that music takes over kids lives but that’s not true because kids aren’t completely driven by musical influences there are mostly driven by the need to feel appreciated and to be used by society. So my final opinion to add to the point of Bloom is that yes music is a driver for kids to be influenced but in a sense if something more sensational came out other than music then that would drive kids to lean in that direction and kids can take the real world serious they have to there serious I would suggest they do.

Is it useful to analyze music?

With such a deep and pondering question I can only wonder how to answer such a question. Well I will take a crack at it by saying the analysis of music is really similar to the analysis of art . Now when you look at a piece of art be it the Mona Lisa or something that Frank Miller just drew crudely art has a story and style to it that reflects the artists. The same concept can be used to describe music in the same Fashion.
Now to explain this concept a little more thoroughly I will illustrate the stereotypes of genres. When I hear a band like Iron Maiden and compare it with Tyler Swift I realize that that hardcore Metal Group has a brutal and Violent vibe in comparison to the Innocence of little Tyler Swift. When you see a Heavy Metal group you see dark clothes , long hair and they tend to look like a shower is long over due but when you see a country singer you see a clean cut girl who everybody just loves and isn't afraid of. To some it up stereotypes and genres help segregate and purifier the music to a gracious extent. Stereotyping is one way to analyze music. I don’t think that analyzation of music is takes away from the experience of music in fact I do believe it adds to it. When you realize whets going on you can improve upon your taste and judgment in music to enhance the product that you are listening to.
I personally enhance the quality of what I am listening to by sitting down and realizing what I am listening to. When I analyze music I mostly play back certain parts of the song that I thought where bomb and when I go back and forth through it I can sense where more adjustments could have been made and what element of the song or beats can bring the song to a more heighten sense. An example of this is when I listen to Steel Panther I realize that the song is no longer just stupid and corny but that the song has a different guitar solos and drum beats that make it more exiting for people to listen to. I know some people just listen to songs because they sound cool but if you really listen to the beats, the insurments, the lyrics and vibe you can get a sense of personality from the music that makes it unique. Being unique and artistic is one of the greatest goals of musician to have their own sound , vibe and feel is a heighten level for a musician to anyzling the music makes the experience like thousand times better than just listening to what sounds good. So to conclude all of my nonsense I do suggest that people should really listen to what they are hearing so they can get the full vibe of what they are enjoying them selves to.

music and culuture 2

For many people styles and systems are everything . Some people enjoy to be loud and boisterous while others tend to re severe them selves to a  gentle whisper. Using this same concept writers use different methods and approaches to gain , entertain and subdue readers. With the power to control an audience its easy for people to express interpersonal views upon people giving them a certain power that holds the quote  "the pen is mightier than the sword" . The writers in the essays that I have read all have a deep passion for music and all three writers use a different tone or style of expressing them selves. The approach that i thought was more relevant to use on a musical basis was the article type of message which the writer can express him or her self in a informative fashion rather than giving ones personal opinion. I believe that article type is the best type of format to express ones opinion because of its non basis t view.  The journal type of essay is good and has a strong link with the audience but if i dont understand where the individual is coming from then I cannot get into the essay. Lectures are strong in the sense that you have an authority giving you ideas and information but the draw back to that approach is that the lecture can be single sided in its nature. A journalistic opinion on writing is great and has a lot of footwork put into it but a major drawback is that sometimes  the sources of information could be inconclusive. With many variety and styles of writing it would seem that it is up the writer to make the final choice to use his or strength to their advantage.

music and culuture 1

So I had to do this assignment in which the teacher asked and I said doubtfully why the hell not. The questions pertained to the book we are reading called Music and Culture  which part takes on the social impacts that music has on people through a philosophical point as well as an emotional point of view.   The first question asked about my monstrous musical library and how have my taste in music changed over the years? . Well to answer that question my taste in music has stayed about the same. When I was about thirteen i got heavy into trance and electronic dance music because you know the video games and robots so forth. For me electronic music was a way to escape and expand my interpersonal being , kinda weird being that the name of the music trance is go forth in a different world or dream. So as I grew up my musical taste did start to get a little more diversed for instance I rarely listen to heavy metal and sometimes I enjoy hip hop beats , but I dislike Little Wayne one because he looks like beetle juice and two he has nothing important to rap about. My peers do not have any influence on my musical taste. Also I dont really change my attitude towards one or another when it comes to music. Music for me is a time to jam out and have fun.