Hello class blog, this week we started one of my favorite music genres, pop music. Pop music is all I listen to really and I love it. It’s just something you can get up and dance to or have fun and just sing in the car with your friends. Pop music just brings me all these memories of summer and fun and having fun with friends.
However pop music is everywhere on the radio and it is also overplayed. They play the same 4 songs on the radio in a loop for you hear the same song at least twice an hour. Depending on the song it can get really annoying and repeated until it is stuck in your head for an hour.
We were talking in class how pop music doesn’t fit that well into the class description, but I don’t find that to be the case at all, some pop music can be controversial depending on how it is put into context.
One example that I can think of on the top of my head is the song God is a woman by Ariana Grande. This song is so empowering to the woman and help the state of the #metoo movement. It is saying how a woman has a voice and how powerful we can be. On the flip sideshow, this song to religious people and they might have a problem with it. It is changing the image of God from this male figure to a female and people probably won’t be too happy about changing what he looks like. Also, the music video for that video is kind of sexy and wouldn’t be appropriate at a church even though it is beautiful, it just not Churchie.
That was just one present-day example of how something can be changed in the context of another thing. I am excited about this unit because I love music and I can't wait to learn more about it.
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