Does a Stereotype of a Genre Effect The Real Message?

Does the stereotype of a genre completely effect the real message an artist could be trying to get across. In class we talk about the song Night of The Living Baseheads by Public Enemy, which is song that is a protest to the drug epidemic. But does stereotyping this genre of music with things such as crime and violence effect their overall message to those who don’t normally listen to rap. The same can be said about metal music being associated with satanic worship, meanwhile there’s christian mental bands. Automatically putting this genres in a box does that effect how someone will listen to the music, I picking and choosing what they want to hear rather than actually dissecting the lyrics.

Do Unconventional Collaborations Create More Popularity?

In class we talked about the song Walk This Way by RUN-DMC and Aerosmith, which is two artist you wouldn’t normally hear on a track together during this time, and this helped push rap music into the mainstream by collaborating with a rock group. Today do unconventional collaborations like this song spike more talk than an artist collaborating with someone from their genre. Such as the song Old Town Road that had recently been super popular, which is a song collaborated with the artists Lil Was X and Billy Ray Cyrus. This song combines the two genres of hip hop and country, this song probably became popular due to it being so different from what has been put out recently. Is this song going to help bring country into the mainstream like Aerosmith did for rap?

Musician Scandals – Austin Jones

In class we briefly talked about this when we talked about Micheal Jackson, do we disregard his actions when listening to his music. Well the past weekend from when I’m posting this a smaller artist who had a huge following on Youtube named Austin Jones was sentenced to 10 years in prison for predating on underage fans. This story was specifically interesting and I’ve heard things about him before the allegations really blew up due to knowing others who have worked with him. I have a friend who is photographer mostly Youtubers and Musicians and she worked with him during a concert and talked about he would openly say sexual things about underage fans to his friends and people he worked with, she also talked about how he was one of the rudest people she every worked with.  I remember in 2015 people were talking about this but underage fans that were victims were silenced by the community due to lots of higher ups protecting Austin Jones. People who tried to call him out who had a platform, such as Damon Fizzy, were constantly harassed by his management and others trying to protect him. I linked an article that goes into more detail about the allegations and what he did, but I feel this story really shows the influence a young fan’s idol can have on them. These girls were 14 and 15, and the way he would manipulate them was by saying things such as “if you were really my biggest fan you would send the videos.” I’m also going to link the video of Damon Fizzy talking about how he tried to find justice for these victims for years but was constantly silenced by people trying to protect Austin Jones.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2019/05/05/youtube-star-austin-jones-gets-10-year-sentence-child-porn-case/1112770001/

 

Love to my Cobain

 

 

 

 

I want a love so good
So good that it’ll make me sick
To touch, but I need it
You are the love to my Cobain
Blood to my blade
And you’re no good for me baby, no good
You are the pin in my grenade
Can’t pull you away
And you’re no good for me baby, no good
Give me kisses again
Never gonna quit my addiction
And I like you keep me so conflicted
And I like it even when you hit it
La da da
Da da da
Take it up a notch, I might need stitches
Keep it dirty just like Sid Vicious
I know you wanna lick my delicious
Da da da
You are the love to my Cobain
Blood to my blade
And you’re no good for me baby, no good
You are the pin in my grenade
Can’t pull you away
And you’re no good for me baby, no good
Give me kisses again
You are the love to my Cobain
Kiss me again
You are the love to my Cobain
Give me kisses again
Tie me up – don’t need no restrictions
You can take it all with such conviction
I kinda wish that we could switch positions
La da da
Da da da
Take it up a notch, I might need stitches
Keep it dirty just like Sid Vicious
I know you wanna lick my delicious
Da da da
You are the love to my Cobain
Blood to my blade
And you’re no good for me baby, no good
You are the pin in my grenade
Can’t pull you away
And you’re no good for me baby, no good
Give me kisses again
You are the love to my Cobain
Kiss me again
You are the love to my Cobain
Give me kisses again
I want a love so good,
So good that it will make me sick
To touch, but I need it
Don’t tease or I’ll bleed
Oh oh
Don’t tease or I’ll bleed
Yeah
Don’t tease or I’ll bleed
Yeah
Don’t tease or I’ll
Don’t tease or I’ll
Don’t tease or I’ll bleed
You are the love to my Cobain
Blood to my blade
And you’re no good for me baby, no good
You are the pin in my grenade
Can’t pull you away
And you’re no good for me baby, no good
You are the love to my Cobain
Kiss me again
You are the love to my Cobain
Give me kisses again

Does Album Artwork Matter?

Does the artwork of an album overall define the album or can the music stand on its own without the artwork. The artwork can give context to an album but do you need to see the artwork in order to understand the context of the music or can it stand on its own without it. Is the idea of album artwork going to eventually be outdated due to most people either downloading and streaming music rather than buying physical copies such as CDs or Vinyl records where the artwork is the first sing you see when you buy it. I think a lot of music can stand on its own without the album cover and doesn’t exactly define each individual song just more as a summary of the whole album, but to someone who does not completely get the message the artwork may help them receive the message.

96 Tears by ? and the Mysterians

Too many teardrops
For one heart to be cryin’
Too many teardrops
For one heart to carry on

You’re way on top now
Since you left me
You’re always laughin’
Way down at me

But watch out now
I’m gonna get there
We’ll be together
For just a little while

And then I’m gonna put you
Way down here
And you’ll start cryin’
96 tears

Cry
Cry

And when the sun comes up
I’ll be on top
You’ll be right down there
Lookin’ up

You’re gonna cry 96 tears
You’re gonna cry 96 tears
You’re gonna cry, cry, cry, cry, now
You’re gonna cry, cry, cry, cry

96 tears, c’mon, let hear you cry, now
96 tears, woo, I wanna hear you cry
Night and day, yeah, all night long

 

Has The 2000s Emo Scene Still Held Up

Growing up from Middle School to High School I listened to a lot of metal core and pop punk bands that are still around today but some have completely change their style and audience from when they first started making music. Some in good ways, others no so good. I remember within the first weeks of class people discussing Bring Me The Horizon putting out pop music now, they are not the only ones in this scene who’ve made a drastic change in musical style in recent years. Many fans were disappointed when the band Underoath went from being a Christian style rock band to making a complete 180 and making music with satanic undertones. We’ve also had bands loose members to purse other passion projects such as Cassadee Pope from pop punk Hey Monday leaving the band to compete on the Voice and become a country singer and Mattie Montgomery leaving his Christian metal band For Today to pursue preaching the word of God across the U.S. an overseas.