Don’t Judge an Album by its Cover
FleetusMcGee posted in Snapshots
By: Zach
Music defines us. Music is how we live. Music is who we are. Why? Music can be summed up in the simple phrase, “Don’t judge a book by its cover;” or in this case, don’t judge an album by its cover.
When has the rhythm or beat of our music made us act irrationally? I can see that music has an effect on our attitudes, but I’ve never heard of a kid threaten a school with a bomb because of the music he or she listened to. The newscasters have never said “today at Conifer, a bomb threat, by so-and-so, and he listens to Metallica.”
We can’t turn a blind eye to music’s negative affect on easily shaped minds, though. We each have our preferences of genres, and how we talk or how we act sometimes can be portrayed by the music we listen to. Sure, I hear kids talking about their crazy weekends, I look and see that it’s the group that listens to rap, or maybe I’ll overhear someone talking about what they smoked, and they listen to 70s’ rock. But this is a small minority in a vast society of music lovers. I myself listen to what is considered Indie music, as well as classic
rock, but you won’t find me talking about doing drugs over the weekend.
Music doesn’t define us, we define music. The term “emo” exsisted before the music about depression and hate was discovered. It is assumed that the music of our generation is rap, emo, and hardcore. Now as you look around and examine a little closer the playlists on our Zunes and iPods, look at the name Radiohead, the inspiration of the Beatles, and the eclectic rhythms of Remy Zero.
Don’t judge an album by its cover.
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