Music. It’s the one thing everyone can agree on. Over the generations of music changing, forming, and inventing, It’s one of our main sources of entertainment. Whether your out for a run or in the car blasting bops, You can’t deny the impact music has on our daily lives. Music has a way of moving people and bringing people together in the best and worst of times. Not only does it have an impact on us as individuals, but as whole societies.
The human race has been creating and inventing new ways to produce music and sound since the cave men. Making sounds is literally how we communicate today! (Except we have actual languages created) Archeologists have been digging up all sorts of ancient musical instruments and other pieces of evidence that supports our ancestors creating music. Whether you realize it or not, music has been brainwashing you and implanting its rhythmic ways inside your head! We hear certain tunes or rhythms and beats and we connect it specific memories or feelings, almost as if music holds the memory for you. Whenever you hear the graduation song (do you hear it lol) you usually either get excited (if you haven’t graduated yet) or get emotional because it was a big step in your life, the same with wedding bells. As a musician myself (classically trained violinist for 10 years), whenever I get into the rhythm of a song my whole body tends to feel the beats and melody’s and tends to move with it. Creating and playing music tends to act like writing in your diary and helps let loose of all your feelings and feel fresh again. I know that sometimes if I am feeling stressed or sad or overwhelmed, I like to take a drive in my car and blast my sad or favorite songs and screaM just to let out my feelings. Heck! I listen to music all day! I’m even listening to it while writing this blog! Music has also brought me together and closer to a lot of relationships I have. I would’ve never met some of my bet friends today without music. It has also helped me to become closer with my family, singing during long car rides or even just randomly in the house ( have 6 people living in my house so some dance parties got a little more crazier than others LOL).
Music can influence generations of people! I remember reading about how when the Beatles got popular everyone wanted to buy those cliche bowl cut wigs so they could pretend to be them. It’s crazy what music can really do and how it can affect our everyday lives. That being said, Do you think music has enough social power to create a whole movement and bring real change to our society today?
Mass Media and American Life 
I first wanted to say that the video are satirical! Music is always changing. It’s a way for people to express themselves about any topic. It makes you come aware of issues and how people are trying to be heard.
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I do believe music can and has made social impacts in the current political landscape because songs like “Alright” by Kendrick Lamar or “Fuck that Police” by NWA has inspired people from their respective generations to go out and try to make a change in the world they live in. Rappers have helped movements like the Black Panther and BLM gain traction because of the lyric they put in their songs and the struggles of being a POC in America.
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I think music constantly creates social movements and changes cultures. If you look back to the early 1990’s in LA you had a rap group by the name of N.W.A. I agreed with the nature and message of their music but their were some messages that brought great dilemma. A lot of their music was surrounded around black empowerment and police brutality of African-Americans because it was a real issue. The problem is that some of their music was about violence which i don’t agree with.
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