Sunday, January 12, 2014

TOW#15: Keeping Music Real


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/
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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