Friday, August 27, 2004

Okay, one more post today and I'm warning you now this might get a little long so if you don't read the whole thing I don't blame you, I probably wouldn't. On the way over to my dad's I was thinking about this. Pop music has a bad rep. I'm not sure exactly how to say what I'm thinking...I'll start by bringing up a discussion in english we had last year. My teacher, mr. harrison, asked us to write down conontations with pop and undergrownd music (i think he was trying to teach us about the difference for conontaive and denotative.) I think I said something about how underground music could become popular or something. Most of my class said things like pop is fake, proccesed, bad, ect. ect. While underground had a message, was important, good, ect. ect. Granted alot of pop is those things but not all of it. Its a very big catagorie that can encompess practically anything. Its so big that alot is bad but alot is also good. Its the same way with other catagories as well. Just because somethings rock or country or punk doesn't make it good but it doesn't make it bad either. You can prefeir a certain type of music but chances are that song you like could be considered pop. The catagorie doesn't just include brittney spears, justen timberlake and such (not that there is anything wrong with them) In the same way just because something isn't well known doesn't make it good or have a message or anything. I've known people who have loved a band until it whent "mainstream" and then didn't like it anymore. Just because other people like it doesn't mean the music has changed. In the same way I know people who refuse to go into the pop section at a record store saying they don't whant to be told what to like by the masses and such things are stupid. But if you think about they are making decesions on what others like. If you don't like something just because everyone else does its as bad as liking it just because everyone else does and makes you just as much of a poser. I'm not going to lie and pretend i haven't done that and still think of pop in a negative way but I'm realy working on not. Thats it. Wow, not nearly as long as I thought it would be. I have a habbit of getting a little wordy and repeating myself alot. I hope I didn't do that to much here.
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