Has music lost its content? This issue has been bought up many times in the last decade. Most of the answers are very opinionated. I personally believe that in some cases it has, but in some ways its still the same or maybe even better. I have had many personal encounters and influences with music. Music has always been used to send out various messages such as love, hate, problems, and many other issues. The same issues are still talked about today.
There has been many controversial issues with today’s music. Themes such as sex and violence has really stirred up America. People fail to realize that this has always been talked about in music, the styles of discussion were just different. For example, Marques Houston’s hit song “Naked” was on the verge of being banned because of its title. On the other hand, some of the same people who had problems with this song loved the 1980’s hit “Lets Get It On” by Marvin Gaye. These two songs have the exact same topic, but the one from today’s society was controversial. This is just one example of why I think music has some of the same content. On the other hand, topics such as robbing and killing does take away some content from music. Even with this, no matter what, you will always have a couple of bad apples in the bunch. Will we let this be the overall deciding factor of today’s music?
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Naked was such a good song. I also love "lets get it on" I think the fact that hip hop over the past 10 years has gotten a bad rep has maybe affected the perception of more current songs such as "naked" and that could be part of the reason that it stirred out controversey where as the marvin gaye song didnt as much
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