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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.
>
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