Greg's Super Late Music and Society Post!!!

I've noticed lately that music no longer has the adverse affect it once did on society. We used to live in an era (the 60s and 70s), where the radio would play politically and socially charged songs with real messages about events that affected every single person, and motivated them to take action or change. We lived in a world where music was a tool of enabling political power and utilized that tool as often as we could. Society wrote songs to educate people about the conditions we were living in, and had some affect on the way things were.

Today, however, we don't see that. Today we see a world where the most socially active song we hear on the radio is "Let's See How Far We've Come" by Matchbox 20, a song that's lyrics are ridiculously self-centered, offer no options for solution, and do very little, if anything to motivate anyone to get out and vote, let alone do anything of real political or social significance. Even then, that song is not the most popular. Turn on the radio and you'll head a bevy of ballads about perverse sexual acts (Crank 'dat Soulja Boi kids!!!), or gangsterism. Yes, 50, we all know how street you are, but does that mean you're changing the world? Probably not. And does that mean you're doing it for the better? Most certainly, that is deniable.

Music today has become a corporate sponsored time in which we can turn our minds off and allow the world around us to pass us by.

That saddens me.