As I’m sittin on the bed and typing this weblog I have music coming from Eric’s ipod and into my ear. And as I am sitting here I am thinking about young people today, my generation. We’re all so alike in that we were born within the same decade or close to it anyway. But we are also so different in many ways. Not just gender, sexuality preference, or race although these traits are pretty eminent in our lives. One thing that brings us together, usually in a rather diverse way, is music.
I’m having this thought because as I listen to my boyfriend’s ipod the type of music he enjoys intrigues me. I’ve been listening to this music for about 20 minutes now and I have heard LiL Wayne, T.I., Prince, The Isley Brothers, and now John Legend. There are very few people my age, that I know of anyway, who actually listen to older artists such as Prince and The Isley Brothers. But nearly every young person when asked know exactly who LiL Wayne and T.I. are. This was just a thought of mine. What do you think?
~*Cognition*at*it’s*BEST*~
Yvonna,
I had similar findings a while back myself. I reached a similar conclusion. I thought to myself for so long negative things about people because they listened to different types of music. This was a very uneducated or better misinformed way to think. I feel like once you know the meaning and the posssible connection that music can be, it can be like learning another language in terms of the briges you can gap using it. For example my older brother listened to Pete Rock and Biggie every moment he could. I started off listening to that and had I never discovered in music what can be intriguing about it I would not understand alot of other ideas, people and cultures that I feel I do now. I think you should take your curiousity farther. There is far more to be intrigued by.
Kyle