Serious Musings about Pop Music

It’s official, I really like this song. And I honestly dig kids with this kind of style. At first, I was hatin’ but it takes a lot of confidence to wear those crazy colors. Not for me, but I have to say I’m kind of glad someone is rocking it.
Yes, I do hate turning on the radio and everything sounds like 1990s Ibiza club music (Rihanna’s “Only Girl in the World”, Pitbull’s “Give Me Everything” Kesha’s “We R Who We R”, etc, etc). It gets annoying and it’s a really crazy fad. But you know, there are always going to be kids who are going to want to dance. I don’t know how popular freestyle music was elsewhere in the country, but growing up, it was really popular in San Antonio. Songs like this really defined a childhood in San Antonio I think.

So there is a reason for me to get over the Kesha’s, the constant 808s, and the electro hop and just embrace it. I mean, I don’t have to like all of it. I’m just finally getting a better understanding of it and whatever gets people moving is great. It can become overwhelmingly irritating and soon people will be over it and onto the next. But for now, it’s fun and I’m going to enjoy it.

This is an ongoing project I’m going to try to work on. I’ve been wanting to do more breakdowns of why I enjoy pop music because I’m constantly around friends who are super indie rock, underground punk, and straight rock and roll people and most don’t seem to understand the fun in it. I’m a huge fan of soul and indie dance punk bands the most, so I fit in well with this current scene. That is, until I start blaring the Rihanna. So after writing a bit of a rebuttal to some user saying everyone is copying Lady Gaga here and then writing another response to a comment she left me here further explaining my opinion about my love for music about a year ago, I’ve been itching to write some more about the topic. I’m just so tired of people saying there isn’t any good music anymore and I’m tired of people not just having good fun when they listen to a song. I’ve gone from Janet Jackson to NSYNC to Senses Fail to We Are Scientists to Janelle Monae in big leaping steps. There aren’t many artists that I used to listen to and don’t like to listen to now. Yeah, you grow up in music but feelings about songs and albums don’t change drastically. You may have a laugh about it now, but it still conjures up something. And I love that about music. Here’s to talking and writing more about it!