2008 Woodie Awards
Popular music leads to short attention span
Rudy Ornelas
Issue date: 2/1/07 Section: Opinion
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Music is like a journal. If you listen to a song you haven't heard in a long time it will sometimes spark a memory of the time you first heard it. It almost puts you in the moment whether it was a good one or not. More than a journal music has the ability to be a sort of time machine, or at least that's what good music does.
But pop music, rather than sparking memories, gives us short memories. We don't know how many times a day we hear people say….Oh, I love that song and not even a week later... Oh, that song is so old.
Think about that a second.
People we know still listen to music from before they were born. That is truly timeless music. That will still be getting heard generations after we are gone. Today's music on the other hand is so disposable and considered old and out of style within weeks of its release. Where as the songs we previously mentioned have survived decades and find new ears all the time.
What will define us? Generations from now are kids going to be listening to classic early millennium songs like "Fergulisious," and "I'm Bringing Sexy Back," we doubt it.
Today's pop music is disposable at best. We constantly look for tomorrow's flavor. What we get is songs in large quantities and genres without much substance. So what's the problem, today's music or us?
Maybe that's what we lack, in all aspects of college life. More substance, more feeling. One great song, one that we can hold close to our hearts forever, rather than the disposable sounds we hear coming out of our radios.
But pop music, rather than sparking memories, gives us short memories. We don't know how many times a day we hear people say….Oh, I love that song and not even a week later... Oh, that song is so old.
Think about that a second.
People we know still listen to music from before they were born. That is truly timeless music. That will still be getting heard generations after we are gone. Today's music on the other hand is so disposable and considered old and out of style within weeks of its release. Where as the songs we previously mentioned have survived decades and find new ears all the time.
What will define us? Generations from now are kids going to be listening to classic early millennium songs like "Fergulisious," and "I'm Bringing Sexy Back," we doubt it.
Today's pop music is disposable at best. We constantly look for tomorrow's flavor. What we get is songs in large quantities and genres without much substance. So what's the problem, today's music or us?
Maybe that's what we lack, in all aspects of college life. More substance, more feeling. One great song, one that we can hold close to our hearts forever, rather than the disposable sounds we hear coming out of our radios.
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