Why pretend by Erin Cork
No soothing sounds come from this noise,
Music? This is not music. its obnoxious, it’s horrible, it’s
no good, it’s noise,
You like it just because they do you don’t even understand
it,
This crap is not music; it shakes your car as you have it
blasting so loud that the neighbors wake up
You dance nastily to it like its ok to be acting sexually in
public
The nasty sound encouraging your nasty behavior.
Tribal chanting to the rhythm of a synthesized beat, thank
you Webster
The beat is loud, it shakes your body while you sit on the
bass
The words are vulgar, annoying, degrading, said over and
over
The artist speaks in circles, He’s Redundant
Ignorant in his
influence
It sounds good to you because it sounds good to them, you
follow them around
You do everything they do; you let her slutty body grind
against you
As this horrid sound plays around you
You chant along to the awful noise, you call it singing?
Why! Why do you like it!?
The real answer is, you don’t, they do, so why pretend that
you do too?
Stop pretending, stop chanting, stop making noise to make
noise, stop being ignorant
Stop following people that could care less, and stop
listening to this crap they call music
Many people (older people) think that rap is just about sex
and degrading things, but the thing is, is that if you listen to the right song
then it’s not about that. Take Eminem for instance, he does have songs about
sex, he cusses a lot, however a lot of his music is about real things, if you
take the time to actually listen to the song, or music, you will actually hear
that there is a story written in their lyrics. Rap is (I feel) the closest type
of music to poetry. I am not saying that I don't agree that there is a lot of
rap that is horrible and degrading filled with crap. A couple of years ago I
never listened to rap, I hated it, I had a whole poem (for poetry class) that
was talking about my discus with pop and rap (the one in the begging of this
post), however I feel like if you are exposed to the right type you will always
find at least one artist or song that you enjoy in each genera.
After reading this poem again (years later) I realized that I was both right and wrong. I was right in that people do let other people’s opinions of music affect theirs, and that a lot of pop and rap music does influence naughty dancing. I was wrong in that all rap and pop music is bad. I was also wrong in that the music is their only influence for dancing like that, it’s the 21st century, that is what we do.
After reading this poem again (years later) I realized that I was both right and wrong. I was right in that people do let other people’s opinions of music affect theirs, and that a lot of pop and rap music does influence naughty dancing. I was wrong in that all rap and pop music is bad. I was also wrong in that the music is their only influence for dancing like that, it’s the 21st century, that is what we do.
A majority of people enjoy music, it may not all be the
same, and there are some people who arent as passionate about it is others, and
there are even some people who dont really like it at all. I however do feel
like everyone at one time or another has come to appreciate music in some way.
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