Hip Hop

The video we watched in class was eye opening. Music is a fascinating topic. Most everyone has some type of music preference. It is interesting to watch opinions change over ones lifetime. For example many children start listening to kid and Disney songs. Then they grow out of that faze and typically are heavily influenced by family and friends. They will listen to what every the parents, brothers, or sisters are listening to. After that faze most people start to find opinions in music. Most people will discover who their favorite band, music, genre etc. After that a person typically matures and changes their music preference once again. Watching the hip-hop video I was thinking about the age group of people that listen to that type of music. I am not sure but I would guess it ranges somewhere around 17-35? I have found not a lot of young people like that style nor do older adults. I personally do like hip-hop but I find the background and the typical artist fascinating. The need to fit in as a tough black male artist is overwhelming. It would be nice to see more diversity especially in the music genres. We need to get over the cute blonde for pop stars, the cowboys in wranglers for our country stars, and the black male with tattoos for our rap and hip-hop. Music can make people feel and act certain ways. I think if we had more diversity in the music industry there would be more listeners to different types of music.