What happened to music?

[burbuja0512]

Although I mostly agree with what you said, I disagree here. I think it would sell, because most of it doesn't shock anyone anymore! For ex., my mom would die of a heart attack if she heard any of Kesha's music. But most of the people that I know that like it don't like it because of that, they like it because it's "cool" and "fun." But at the same time there are other "cool" and "fun" music that they like that isn't shocking. So, I realize this is a very unorganized statement :p , but I think it is more the way their peers are responding to it than society as a whole.

It isn't even the lyrics that bother me in that case, I just listen and picture people banging on trash cans and singing in a bizzarre voice whatever thought pops into their head at the moment, with a tape player sitting on the ground in the center :puke:

I see what you mean.. I do think it would probably still sell because there are people with bad taste everywhere. However, with my kids, If I make a big deal about something, it seems more appealing to them. I usually don't react and get them to talk about it and they eventually come to the conclusion that any other rational person would make.

Take swearing for example. My parents made a huge deal about bad words when I was growing up. I wasn't even allowed to say "that sucks" or other relatively harmless comments. This made me such a rebel for a while that I probably had the worst potty mouth of anyone I knew as a teenager.

For my kids, I don't make a big deal about it, we've had discussions and they've come to the conclusion that swearing makes you sound uneducated, but I think that's because I don't act shocked by it. We just talk about it like adults.

Ha ha.. maybe my philosophy is correct, or maybe I just have really good kids. I may never know...