After listening to my classmates tell the rest of the class which song they picked and how their songs factored into the topic of how their performers used their platform to reach for change, I noticed the wide variety of music that people picked. The music picked ranged from rap, to spiritual music, hip-hop, and many other genres. After I listened to the detailed responses students made, it dawned on me that most students did not just pick any music that they felt tied into the subject or assignment easily, but most picked music that they could connect to on a personal level.
Choices around the room ranged from uplifting pop to raps about inequality, and from raps about rights to hip-hop about freedom. Looking at each individual person you could see the connection that many had to their songs and how writing about them had had such a positive affect on each classmate.
Personally, I did not choose a song that I could relate to and looking back, I wish I did. I wish I could've written an insightful piece that come from my own feelings but instead I wrote about a topic that I just felt strongly about which was racism and inequality in America. Although I believe that my writing was still good, I wish that I had been driven by that extra force of self motivation which would have resulted in a better paper all-around.
To end this post, I am curious to see if anybody noticed the same thing or was in the same boat as the people that I talked about. If you are, or even if you aren't, I would love to hear if you agree or disagree with anything that I said, or if you have any insight from a piece that you personally related to.
I for one felt like I was too passionate about the song I was talking about, like I should've talked about a rap song including more social justice. I care a lot about social issues, however in this instance I just focused on how impressed I was of the skill of the artist I was talking about musically, rather than an inspirational message they succeeded in getting across.
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