The article, “Keeping Music Real”, was written by a teen
under the name of Abby H. to discuss her opinion on what the music industry has
evolved into. Unlike most teenagers, she does not support recent rap and pop
music; in fact she finds it to be shallow and more about image than music. She
speaks about the emotionless lyrics written by professional songwriters to be
artificially performed, inappropriate music videos, and attention seeking
rumors. She uses a personal experience from camp when she tried to introduce
her bunkmates to the type of music she listened to and she was turned away
being told that no one liked that music and only she didn’t like the music they
played. This piece was written to encourage teens to find more meaningful music
than the stereotypically popular music this day in age. This article is much like the timed essay
that we wrote for class about entertainment’s potential ability to ruin
society, except this specifically focuses on the music industry. The behavior
of some artists is rather inappropriate and some lyrics do not containing any
meaningful purpose. However, this article fails to present any specific
evidence of this argument and therefore leaves it underdeveloped and therefore
depreciates Abby H.’s credibility. There are plenty of examples of her opinions
that she could have incorporated into the article but did not. With the lack of
evidence this article did not convince me to agree with her viewpoint, it
actually provoked me to think of examples that contradict her argument. I think
it would have been a much more effective piece if she included some examples to
support and verify her point because I wide range of evidence does exist on
this topic. While music has in some cases taken a turn for the meaningless and
inappropriate there are still plenty of artists who value the musical side of
the industry rather then just their image.
Article: http://www.teenink.com/opinion/all/article/17164/Keeping-Music-Real/
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The "Music" Industry URL:http://www.businessinsider.com/why-miley-cyrus-we-cant-stop-is-actually-the-saddest-song-of-the-summer-2013-8 |
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