The reason why I question what emotions an artist may feel when writing a song is that, from experience I've found that song writing is the art people use the most to express themselves; it's an opportunity for people to share how they feel or think. I know that when I sit down to write a poem, whatever emotion is going through me at the time is taken into account. I hate writing poems with a passion. There isn't one thing I like about poems, I don't like reading them and it's hard for me to understand them. This make it difficult to write one and I get nowhere. In the end, because of my hatred, I fail to write a poem at all or it becomes a poem about how much I hate poems. Not what I was going for when I attempted to overcome that aversion. This can be applied to everything else that we do. If we hate taking out the garbage, it shows. Of course, I don't know anyone who likes taking out the garage. :) Bottom line is we like to put emotions into everything.
Our songs are a wonderful example of this practice. We can feel the emotions the artist used to create a song, some of us notice it right away and others are rather oblivious. I remember a couple of years ago, Rihanna was talking on the radio about her abusive relationship with Chris Brown. At that point her new song 'Love the Way You Lie' Rihanna (feat. Eminem) http://rap.genius.com/Eminem-love-the-way-you-lie-lyrics - had just been released and was quite popular. It played so many times that I could have sung it from memory alone. The song was about a couple in a abusive relationship and I felt that that was her attempt to help people understand what it was like to be in that situation. It made me feel sad. I felt like I understood her. I have a great appreciation of songs that hold great meaning. Songs that talk about sex and drugs are very irritating and a bad influence on the public. Honestly, our little children are exposed all the time to songs about doing bad things, but we as a society think that as long as we block out the profanity it's okay. It's not, not only is it bad for our children to listen to but it's bad for all of us. It encourages behavior that we all know isn't good and makes it seem popular. This is why I think the radio is neither good nor bad; we're the one's choosing the songs. The radio is just there to deliver it. We need to make better choices when it comes to the things we listen to, especially as a culture.
Our songs are a wonderful example of this practice. We can feel the emotions the artist used to create a song, some of us notice it right away and others are rather oblivious. I remember a couple of years ago, Rihanna was talking on the radio about her abusive relationship with Chris Brown. At that point her new song 'Love the Way You Lie' Rihanna (feat. Eminem) http://rap.genius.com/Eminem-love-the-way-you-lie-lyrics - had just been released and was quite popular. It played so many times that I could have sung it from memory alone. The song was about a couple in a abusive relationship and I felt that that was her attempt to help people understand what it was like to be in that situation. It made me feel sad. I felt like I understood her. I have a great appreciation of songs that hold great meaning. Songs that talk about sex and drugs are very irritating and a bad influence on the public. Honestly, our little children are exposed all the time to songs about doing bad things, but we as a society think that as long as we block out the profanity it's okay. It's not, not only is it bad for our children to listen to but it's bad for all of us. It encourages behavior that we all know isn't good and makes it seem popular. This is why I think the radio is neither good nor bad; we're the one's choosing the songs. The radio is just there to deliver it. We need to make better choices when it comes to the things we listen to, especially as a culture.
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