127108, current society's really so much more individual-driven than Reagan era? Posted by Bombastic, Thu Jul-02-09 11:44 AM
>Society itself has switched to an "individual" perspective >completely and totally. So all music has done the same thing. > We saw these Fight the Power type things back in the day >because through several means, artist were discovering that >their struggles weren't new to music. They were listening to >old records and searching for information to be the first on >the scene to tell you about the "struggle." > >It was also popular to do so. It was cool to have some form >of message in your music for a while. Because people >werequick to try to relate to each other. You can see it now >more and more everyday that people have a "that's your >problem" mentality, so it only seems fitting that the music of >the day is the soundtrack for that mentality. > >I have a bunch of conveluted opinions on how and why this is, >that I think about daily to be honest. But I just don't see >anything that the people are going to ban together on these >days enough for any music to create a theme song or even good >background music for. > >------------------- >Trek Life's debut album "Price I've Paid" available now > >"New Money" Price I've Paid remix album prod by Oddisee, >available on Itunes and in stores May 5th > >New album "Everything Changed Nothing" coming soon
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