Today's music is without a doubt very different from music 50 years ago, or even 15 years ago for that matter. The age of "pop rap" is upon us and offers poorly constructed lyrics with a catchy beat and chorus. Don't get me wrong some music put out today is great, there are some truly great musicians out there, but do you think the music that is being put out right now will survive the test of time similarly to lets say The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, or the Rolling Stones? I really hope everyone just answered "no" in their heads. The artists I just listed are among the legends of rock n roll and music in general, Bob Dylan's second album, first album with 100% all original songs, "The Freewheelin Bob Dylan," which did I mention is a classic, featured such songs as "Blowin In the Wind,"(which was famously written by Dylan in just ten minutes), "Don't Think Twice It's Alright," and "Girl From The North Country," all make up this great album that was released in May of 1963, and did I mention Dylan wrote it when he was at the just so tender age of 22, truly amazing.
I really feel that 60's and 70's era was THE era of music, THE era of pure expression through art. That is why you see these amazing artists last 30, 40, even 50 years, and surviving generation after generation. The crazy fact is when our parent's (the baby boom generation) are old and grey they
will be playing classics like The Beatles "Hey Jude" or Bob Dylan's "Mr. Tambourine Man," and thirty years later much of our generation will be too.
john
I have to say that being "disconnected" for those 5 weeks was not all bad. I initially thought that it would be hell, because i'm thinking to myself, "how will I check sports scores when i'm out? How will I keep up to date with what's going on? How will i respond to emails? All these things passed through my head, but ultimately it just hit me that having a phone that can do all that was a major luxury and not a necessity no matter how much I thought it was. It was weird not having a phone, suddenly instead of me texting people and being "connected" to everyone that had my number, I all of sudden was out of touch, people had to work to get in touch with me, which I must say was nice. I would show up at my dorm room after class and have about 5-6 messages on Facebook of people asking me to call them. When I was home for spring break, people had to call my house phone! Yes my landline at my house! I know some people that don't even know their own landline numbers anymore because people just never use them. So after that 5 week period passed I picked up a brand new HTC Thunderbolt and this phone literally is the complete opposite of not having a device. This thing syncs my Facebook and Twitter into one and updates them constantly. It is truly amazing, but not having a device for that long of time was definitely strange but also very cool to experience because it had been so long since I had been disconnected. Like I said, the only advantage is that people have to reach out to you, you do a lot less work finding plans and kind of just get pulled into plans. I must say, it was nice.
