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<\/a>Courtney Keller attended a Blake Shleton concert in Chicago.
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A majority of students, such as freshman Chase VanDuyne, like to listen to \u201cclassic rock, so music from the 60’s-90’s.\u201d He listens to the 60\u2019s-90\u2019s because \u201cit really speaks to me.\u201d VanDuyne believes that older music is more appropriate than the<\/p>\n
<\/a>Courtney Keller attended a Chris Daughtry and Goo Goo Dolls concert last August.
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newer generation, he said, \u201cThere are more curse words in the new music than older classic rock songs.\u201d Similar to VanDuyne, senior Taylor Fulton likes to \u201clisten to everything, but I love classic rock and roll and 2000\u2019s rock and roll.\u201d The radio and music streams tend to influence a lot of music choices. Fulton said, \u201cI think a lot of people are because they feel like if they don\u2019t listen to this certain person then they might not fit in, but I\u2019m not influenced because I prefer to listen to whatever sounds good at the time.\u201d This influenced his relationship with music and wanting to still listen to the \u2018older generation.\u2019 He said, \u201cI listen to it because I feel as if some bands have sold out, or they don\u2019t make music like they used to so I usually prefer the older stuff.\u201d \u00a0<\/strong><\/strong> Similar to Fulton, freshman Samantha Payne likes to listen to the early 2000\u2019s music. In her eyes, all music has meaning. But, when it comes to lyrics, Payne said, \u201cI remember the lyrics to songs that I listen to often. Whether it is an older song or a<\/p>\n Courtney attended a Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran concert in Chicago. newer song.\u201d She said she tends to like to listen to old music \u201cbecause the music was good back then. It’s just that the style has changed.\u201d<\/p>\n Older music has influenced her favorite piece of music. He said \u201cthe \u2018Sound of Silence\u2019 by Simon and Garfunkel is a song from the 1960\u2019s that I really enjoy. I\u2019m not sure why I like it so much, but I just really do.\u201d She enjoys that genre of music because \u201csongs now seem to have a more pop feel to them. Newer music contains more electronic sounds and beats. Older songs seem to do well with just a guitar and a piano.\u201d<\/p>\n Even though \u00a0students seem to like the older genre of music, senior Jennifer Figueroa loves to listen to rap music.She said she prefers \u201crap that talks about real stuff, more underground rap than mainstream really.\u201d Figueroa has not let society influence her taste in music. She said, \u201cI think that society likes to listen to music constantly played on the radio, at least that is how I see it.\u201d In Figueroa’s eyes, the music she listens to is \u201csomething I just picked up on, although it isn\u2019t all appropriate what music is completely.\u201d With appropriateness playing a big role in music viewers age, Figueroa said, \u201cI feel as if the older music is a lot more appropriate than the newer. I also guess it depends as well, because to some extent music has shifted to a different mindset in trying to bring something new to the table for the listeners to relate in a worse inappropriate ways to in which nowadays, I think we are in an era where people relate to the negative things such as drugs, and rage which leads to their interest in music being that. Like I said I guess it depends really.\u201d With music appropriateness being depended on by people’s opinion, the genre of today\u2019s music has differed a lot to her. She said, \u201cWell over the years new trends are created. Artists try to update with the newest ones and along goes their style in music as well. For example like Jay Z, his beats were more simple and old school and if you compare to his beats and music now, it has a major difference in style and it doesn\u2019t consist of any of his old works. Most of his music now is more upbeat and overrated; I\u2019m not referring to every single song.\u201d<\/p>\n Whether it\u2019s Billy Joel from the 80\u2019s or Jason Derulo in modern music, the variety of genres have expanded throughout the years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When a teacher talks about his or her life in the past and\/or what song he or she used to listen to, it is often that students are confused as to what he or she is talking about. There are … Continue reading <\/a>
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