Using Music As A Platform

In our classes this week on Tuesday and Thursday, as well as on our own time, we have listened to many artists contribute to a time of change. Singers used their popularity reach to really instill their visions for the world we live in. I think it is so amazing that some well known groups, men, and women were all able to speak up and stand for what they believe in. It makes me happy that artists are able to speak their minds when they sing. I believe that by being a 'popular' artist, it really impacts the society's ways of thinking and their confidence. These messages seem to have a faster approach on society because of how easy these celebrities can influence something. It may end up in a shock value, but the message is still able to get out effectively. 

In my lyric analysis I did yesterday on Beyonce's song Freedom, it is clear that she was able to influence many young and older women too speak up for their rights. Throughout the song she made many relations to slavery, as well as police cruelty in Kendrick Lamar's verse. Additionally throughout the song she showed constant hope and support to people of the African American ethnicity. I think that this song made people with a black skin tone not feel alone and helpless anymore. Using her (and his) music as a platform to encourage a movement and sense of freedom to African Americans must be so comforting to them. I hope that artists today continue to speak up for what they feel is rights and changes they'd love to see in the world.