Changing in music over time

Have you ever notice how much music has changed over time? I mean if you look at music even just from 15 years ago there is a great difference. Each musical talent brings something of their own to the stage and it adds on and on. it is like one persons choice (in music) can change it completely. musicians (weather they know it or not) help each other out with how they preform, maybe not directly but they do. look at Micheal Jackson for instance, he had a while where he was amazing! He was the king of pop (now i do not care for him or his music but i do respect what he has done for music) after a while though he fell, people actually began to hate him and pop kind of fell for a couple years and wasnt as popular. When he died people began to realize what he had done for music and pop then again shot up and became a lot more popular. Another quick example would be the Back Street Boys, they were one of the first "boy bands" and after them the Jonas Brothers, after them Big Time Rush, and than One direction, all huge "boy bands" and all similar in a lot of ways but do bring their own things to the stage. Over time each generation comes up with a new thing that is foreign to the older generations but greatly impacts the upcoming generations and was greatly influenced by the old generations.

Give All Kinds a Chance

Ok so last year i did an assignment were we could choose any topic and research it, i of course chose music. I no sadly no longer have the research paper that i wrote but i pretty much found out what im going to blog about in this post. So im going to tell you a little about me and my relationship with music. When i was little, I grew up listening to whatever my parents listened to as i grew older i still loved what my dad did. I was in love with rock music, my dad taught me everything that i know about all of the rock music i listened to, and still to this day i listen to rock music. Since my dad hated country, and pop, as did I. My dad listened to any type of rock and some other things but what he liked i developed a liking for. I really didnt have a choice its what i grew up with.

As i got older i started to hang out with my friends and they all happened to like rock too, however they listened to more heavy metal than i did, eventually they introduced me to more things and i started to like heavy metal as well, but i still hated country, rap, and pop. As I grew up I gained more friends with different tastes in music, and gradually developed my own liking for different kinds of music. I dont like all music, there is (in each genera of music) some song or band that i dont like (some more than others). I grew up listening to rock but as I got older i gained a very eclectic taste for music, I love a little bit of every type of music (rock is and will always be my favorite) country, rock, pop, hip-hop, jazz, rap, you name it.

Music opinions can change as you get older, just as music changes over time. I think that at first for most people their taste in music is based on their parents, but as they get older their friends change it (maybe a little, maybe completely). eventually there is a time when a person should just sit down (alone) and turn on the music, see what it means to them, dont worry about other people and just see what it is that they like for themselves. A lot can change they way you feel about music, even religion. Sometimes its nice to like a variety of music, because some days you might want to head bang, and some days you might wanna sing and car dance with your girl friends in the car. sometimes music can completely change the way we think about a situation, and sometimes it can give you answers to questions that you didnt know that you needed an answer to. Sometimes it feels that the music knows exactly what youre feeling, the music is expressing the exact emotion or even a similar story to the one youre living. Music is amazing, no matter what kind. Give it a chance.

I guess what the point of this post is is to both explain how taste can change with age, and the the people who mean something to you, and that no matter what, you may think that you hate a type of music out there, but dont give up on it. Give it a try you might be surprised and find that you like it more than you thought.

My intake on Miley Cyrus

Im posting this one because im honestly tired of everyone freaking out about how crazy Miley is going and how slutty she is now! the thing is is that shes not a kid anymore, and shes an artist.

Now a lot of people are disappointed in Miley and how she has changed, but honestly I agree with what she is doing. I think that it is cruel for us to judge her. Yes she was a role model for "the children" but the thing is is that she cant be the little teenage Disney star forever, shes an adult and i think its cool that she is trying to express herself. Now by me saying this it doesn't mean im a huge fan, because im not, I like maybe one song by her and thats it. I dont like her music but i respect what it is that she is doing as an artist. Art is a way to express yourself and this is exactly what she is doing.

Miley was a well respected musician before this and i dont understand why she is less respected now because of her change in artistic expression. She isnt the same girl we grew up to know before, shes older and is not a little girl anymore shes an adult who can make her own decisions. Her new video Wreaking Ball i think is interesting, i dont really like the video for the idea of the song, however the song really impressed me, im really not a fan of her music but this song caught my attention. I think that in her two newest videos she is trying to explain that she isnt a little girl anymore she is an adult and she can do as she pleases.

Watching the video can take away from the point of the song?

Ok, for this next blog post im going to do something a little different than before, I'm doing a band called Die Antwoord, they are a south African pop band. Im going to kind of show the difference of pop in North America compared to pop in South America. I had a couple of friends from my school and work watch this video just to get their reaction. I fink u freeky
This video got the same reaction from everyone who watched it, all of them seemed to think that the video was weird and kind of creepy. I actually rather enjoyed the video. the video to me seemed a little more rock like than pop in North America. Now I do understand that this song is only one pop song in South Africa, and i do understand that not all songs in South America are necessarily like this song. I like the video because it is rather weird and it catches my attention from the start to the end. It is a very weird video but i think that if all pop in South Africa is like this i have no problems with that.

In north America our pop seems to be a lot more upbeat something that makes you want to get up and dance, i enjoy this as well (even though i cant dance at all). The song I chose to compare to I Fink U Freeky is Wrecking Ball by Miley Cyrus, This song is very well liked by the people i asked. When i watched the video i had a similar reaction to the one that i had while watching I Fink U Freeky. Both videos while giving completely different feels if you listen to them without watching the video and just listening seem to be a little weird while actually watching the videos. They seem to both have a women who seems to be showing quit a bit of skin. I think that both videos while giving different feels are similar. I like both songs and like both videos.

Both videos are kind of random in their own way. Mileys video is about her ex wreaking her and i understand the wreaking ball and all that but i dont understand why she is partially nude in most of the video and what is with her and licking the hammer? i don't really understand why  she seems to be trying to be sexy while also trying to express that she is hurt. The Die Antwoord video is similar in that I understand that this girl is kind of a "freak" however i dont understand how this video expresses much for liking someone, it really only covers the freaky part. Both songs are great, both videos are great, but while a lot of people judge new music because they dont understand it or just its video i think that they also need to watch videos of the songs that they do like and see if they make sense. sometime just watching the video can take away from the actual song.

Look at the videos of a couple of different songs that you like and than just listen to the songs without watching the video and see if you feel something different each time, or maybe understand the song differently. Music videos can change the way we think of a song or even just change what we think the song is about.

Alice In Chains

Alice in Chains is a very famous band that started in Seattle during it big grunge band rush. They came into being about the same time as sound garden, Pearl Jam, and Mother Love Bone. Grunge in general was a major departure form the popular 80s hairbands music, in a couple of different ways, form a musical way the sound was muddier, the subject matter tended to be darker, more about how life sucks instead or girls. The band members even appeared different, they weren't about big hair and makeup, they were opposite, ripped clothes and kind of dirty looking. Alice in chains exploded on the scene, they were big in Seattle and than pretty much over night they were big everywhere. A lot of their music had to do with death and drugs, which makes sense because they did a lot of drugs and their lead singer died due to a heroin overdose, Mike Starr (the original bass player) also died due to a drug overdose. Alice in Chains stopped producing music before Layne Staley (their first singer) died, and that was basically because of his heroin problem, they did the MTV unplugged, and it was kind of their swan song. Their song would? talks about their friend form Mother Love Bone dying. It is also interesting that they have the song called its over now and it seems fitting that it was there last songs on their mtv cd, because not to long after that Layne died after a drug overdoes. They went for almost 15 years before they got back together. William DuVall is thier current singer and he started with comes from the fall, and Jerry Cantrell liked him.
basically DuVall sat in with them and did a couple of concerts together and got together as a band. My father things that William DuVall of covering songs where Layne Staley startes, and he also does a great job of being himself as an artist so he isnt just a clone of Lane Staley. On their latest tour (which i have seen) they have a drum set that says LSMS which stands for Layne Staley and Mike Starr.

The Prince of Darkness

Ozzy Ozborne's birth name is actually John Michael Ozborne. He started with Black Sabbath, and went on his own, because of the fact that he was abusing alcohol and drugs and the band kicked him out. Black Sabbath have firm ties in Birmingham England. After Black Sabbath kicked him out, he wondered on his own for awhile, and a record executives daughter took him under her wing and took him on has her own and started his solo carer and then married him, her name is Sharon Ozborne. They had a big contract signing around when they got married and as part of the signing someone had the idea to release doves during the signing and Ozzy bite off the head of one of the doves. Whats kind of funny is that on the Blizzard of Oz there is a picture of him petting a dove, and getting ready to bite its head off. The Biting off the head of the bat story is that he actually thought it was a prop and it ended up being and actual bat, this happened in Des Monies in 1984. After Ozzy went on his own Randy Roads was his guitar player and he died in a plane crash in the early 80s. The big thing about him is that he alone and with black sabbath had a huge impact with music. Black sabbath created the idea of scary music, before them there was no idea of dark music. Ozzy when he went on his own took this to the next step, this is believed to be why he is called the prince of darkness.

Nikki Sixx of Motley Crue

Ok, So First Post ever about music! I'm kind of excited about this one! I've been reading this book called The Heroin Diaries, Its a story about Nikki Sixx and his problems and experiences with drugs. Nikki Sixx is a very well known artist, He has appeared in a few bands Motley Crue, and Sixx a.m. were his most famous bands (my personal favorite is Sixx A.M.). Nikki Sixx grew up with a rough childhood, his father left him and his mother when he was young, and his mother (though he says she tried to love him) sent him away to his grandmother anytime that she found a new man due to the fact that he was "in the way". Nikki listened to rock music as he was growing up and eventually started playing it, he can play bass, piano, keyboard, guitar and he sings. as he started playing music for Motley Crue he started making money which made it possible for him to buy such expensive drugs (like Heroin). Many people seem to believe that the reason that he became an addict is because of the fact that he was in the band, but as Nikki describes it, he was destined for it. He explains in the fascinating book that he was born an addict, that weather or not he was in the band he would have found another way to get the drugs. The money sure enough helped Nikki, however i feel that because as a kid growing up was hard for him he just needed to get away form everything just for awhile. Drugs were his way of doing this.





Nikki explains in his book that he is now a completely different person. He has had overdoses and has survived he has been in great darkness and now sees light, his story is heart breaking and amazing at the same time. To be able to do as he did and come out strong the way he is now is something that i think we should all admire and respect. Nikki before being clean was a F*** everyone kind of guy, he did as he pleased when he pleased. He is now very different but in some ways same, he is still in love with music, however now music is his way of getting high (without actually being high). Nikki is different now in that he published his story because of the fact that he felt like even if only one person reads it and chooses not to go down the path he did than he is doing a great thing. He set up a charity so that when people buy his book it goes to a teenage runaway home. He has transformed into an amazing man and is still able to create the same amazing music.

He explains that when he was high and occasionally when he was sober he wrote his thoughts, he wrote about his crazy story and in the book you can actually tell when he is tripping and when he is not. You can read his thought process about everything that is or has gone on in his life. He put his thoughts together and published them as a book to tell his story and to try to get people to live his nightmare with him and scare them off drugs.

The Beatles

The Beatles

Back to a bands history... again, however this week it will be about the Beatles. The Beatles are legendary because they had amazing talent, and it also they were developing at such a perfect time. All of the Beatles were born around the same time as all of the baby boomers so they had a huge fan base of teenagers. The Beatles were getting famous shortly after Kennedys death, shining light on the world at a sad time.

Beatles most popular songs
1) Hey Jude - Hey Jude was written for John Lennon's son to cheer him up during the time of his parents divorce.
2) Get Back- Get back was the only song by the Beatles that had another artists name involved (as it was also Billy Preston's)

3) She Loves you- She loves you had become a number one hit multiple times over the years.

4) Cant Buy Me Love- Cant Buy Me Love was the only song that was recorded in a non U.K. recording studio.

5) I Want To Hold Your Hand - This song was the Beatles second most selling song.

6) Ticket To Ride - The first song in which Paul McCartney was lead guitarist.

7) Paperback Writer- Is known for its Bass guitar

8) Hard Days Night- Ringo Starr had a remark which actually came up with the name of this song

9) Hello, Goodbye- remained number one for 7 weeks.

10) Help- ended up in the Rolling Stones top 500 songs of all time.

The Beatles were, and still are, amazing and have done great things which has helped to inspire many artists developing today.

This is my life

So, honestly if it weren't for this class I would never have started a blog. I'm not one to write out in the open about facts and all this, in fright that maybe I'm wrong or maybe I'm not as great of a writer as I think. However I'm only in high school so as far as I'm concerned it doesn't really matter except for a grade. I do hope that I can become a more experienced researcher and maybe learn more about writing in the process.

For this blog my teacher made me choose a topic of interest, my choice was music and its history. Whether it be about history of a band or history as in how generations change music over time, or even what genre was most popular when and how that has changed over the years, will probably change depending how I'm feeling that day. I chose music because all of my life I have been in love with it. I love the way it sounds (most of it) and I love the way it can change how I feel at that moment. I also love that there is always a song that explains the exact way I'm feeling at ever moment. Music is a way to express feelings and tell stories in a very effective way.
For me there is never to much I can learn about music. I can learn about each band and how fascinating their history is (how they started, how they ended (if they ended) and if drugs affected them) I can read about how each type of music started and how they changed over time (maybe into a new type of music). And I can research different kinds of music in different places around the world. With music there are many different options to research. I can research job fields for music. I can research different instruments! I am kind of excited for this blog and I look forward to having you read all that I have learned.