Friday, March 4, 2011
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.
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I do understand where you are coming from. There are kids that let themselves be influenced by music. But I do think that Bloom went a little over board on how much music can influence someone. I think that peer pressure has a lot to do with how someone dresses or what they listen to. When you are young, if a friend listens to a certain type of music and dresses a certain way and that person is a pretty popular friend, it is easy to want to be like that person. I do not think that music itself can change who you are or the way you think. Bloom makes it sound life rock and roll is a horrible thing for young adults because they will be influenced to act a certain way. I feel that is someone is easily influenced by music, they should not listen to certain things. Luckily not we have so many genres to choose from. It's never the same old thing unless of course you listen to one station only then typically it will be the same type of music. Other than that, we are lucky now because there's not only rock and roll or not only heavy metal, there's much more out there not. So, this makes it difficult for someone to be influenced by one type of music like rock and roll or anything else. He does make good points in his views but also I think goes a little over board with his ideas. He thinks young adults are just weak and will be influenced negatively by music but I disagree.
ReplyDeleteI agree with what you talked about when you said that kids can take it too far sometimes. I dont think Bloom was correct by saying that this is all the kids know and care about but music is very powerful. Two teenage boys were actually killed because they wanted to be just like ozzy. They both were "Ozz-heads" and had heard somewhere that he snorted fire ants to prove his immortality as prince of darkness. So these two teenage boys decided to do it too. It turns out that snorting fire ants makes them angry. The ants bit the insides of the boys lungs and noses and they suffocated from the swelling of the bites. It's scary what kids will do to become like their musician heros. On the other hand it can be a positive influence if the kid is listening to a good band. I referenced the band U2 in a differnt blog response. Their message is completely positive and they use their money and fame to do good things for people all over the world and the planet that we live on.
ReplyDeleteI really agreed with how you explained the cliques in school. Seems like my high School wasn’t the only one that was like that. I was different though for me being what people wasn’t to call a jock and I hate that generalization of a group. I really didn’t think though that all the kids were so dependant on music as Bloom explains in his essay. He made it seem that all of us kids were so hooked on music that we were in cohesive without it. I agree that there were several different groups that hung out because of the music they like but I saw it more as kids were trying to find their identity and could relate with that group. I agree that kids emulate their so called idol and did some pretty crazy things with there hair or body but in the same view I knew a lot of kids that didn’t do anything to themselves or hangout with those cliques. I love rock and metal but never hung out with the metal group or had any association with them. I didn’t dress like them or spike my hair three feet high. I think that what Bloom was trying to do was generalize all of us into categories like zombies.
ReplyDeleteI agree with what you said that kids can take it way too far and come completely obsessed with a certain style or genre of music and let it take over their lives. I too have witnessed kids that are so over dramatic about their music and think nothing else in life exists, and it was mostly the punk kids that went to local shows and jumped around like idiots, smashing into each other and my personal favorite “air punching”. That is just my personal experience. Not all kids are like this though and I think Bloom took it way to far by referring to the entire young generation instead of saying some of the younger generation. There are plenty of kids who have a love and passion for music but still focus on the realities of life. Some lucky kids even find a way to incorporate their love for music into real life. Some get scholarships for choir, dance, and even cheer. Others even go to a school dedicated to the arts. So I think Blooms statement is somewhat correct but mostly over dramatic.
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