A Stood Up Date

I have chosen to write about one of my favorite alternative rock band, Red Hot Chili Peppers from Los Angeles, California. My decision was based upon two things; one being I like the band, while the other was to learn if some of their music is sending the wrong message to our young people. I personally would not consider myself music sappy; never have I really been given a chance to listen to music as I grew up, to find what I like. As of today, I don’t know who sings what song nor really know what the lyric’s mean. With today’s environment young people are given a chance to be inspired by different kinds of media; thus giving them the opportunity to actually find out what the artist is meaning behind the songs. After interviewing four participation;

The 1950’s brought about the beginning of teen culture. The phrase, “teenager”, had only recently been invented but the word was already developing more weight and meaning. To be a teen encompassed the soul of rebellion. The formative years were a warp in the usual fast pace of life, a pause between childhood and adulthood. That pause was uncomfortable and foreign. It gave kids a chance to think and feel before being thrust into The Real World. That small break was enough for the seed of self-expression to slip through, and music is the ultimate form of self-expression. The birth of rock and roll, the constant threat of the cold war, the inescapable prison of segregation, and the chance to stop

The stage is lit up by luminous lights in various neon colors. Fog begins to fill the stadium of ten thousand screaming fans. It is show time. They run out from backstage. The crowd gets abruptly louder as the band begins to sing. This is a day in the life of a boy band member. Although nineties boy bands and modern boy bands are thought to be exactly the same, they are actually both similar and different in many ways. They have different styles of music, they are either synchronized or individual performers, and they became famous because of the influence of technology.

“More!” I shouted. The man handed me the remainder of wine and I shoved the whole bottle in my mouth immediately. Not long after, I began to feel different than I had ever felt before. It was hard to stand, and I couldn’t walk in

Have anybody came up to you and said to you that romance is dead? Not true. Millions of people still believe in romance. Even people who think that they don't, they do.

Music has played a major role as an agent of socialization in each of my 4 decades. I know and hope that it will continue to do so. During each period music has affected my personality, shown my personality, affected my perceptions and helped me to cope with growing and changing as a person. My Looking Glass Self has compared the person in song and possibly the singer themselves to myself to gain perspective of who I was at each time. I am going to discuss each decade with the thought of how music was an agent of socialization in each.

The drums came in, reverberating through the amphitheater before Tyler sang his first note of the eighteen song setlist and bright, luminous lights struck flashing over the crowd like a lightning storm. I couldn’t contain my smile and I was shaking uncontrollably at that moment; it just felt so surreal, and you can tell everyone else felt the same way. Everybody was jumping up and down, and singing along, and I watched before my eyes as the entire theatre came together and become one, all thanks to music. One of the highlights of the show was during a medley of their older songs in which they performed a part of their song “Screen”, and the entire crowd was chanting the bridge, “We’re broken people”. Twenty One Pilots’ music talks a lot about depression and different struggles, and although I’m not depressed, we all have our own personal struggles. Having music you can relate to can really help you, and this part of the show was a perfect example of that. There’s just something comforting about a crowd of people all singing about how broken they are; it can give you a sense of hope and a realization that you’re not

Although the two decades were different in themselves, there is still a parallel running between the two. Both were times of change, with popular culture culminated for the newly recognised youth, each decade had their own brand of pop music, and their own brand of teenagers.

In the story “ Where are you going, Where have you been?” Connie is a young adult who tries to have the appearance of being a mature woman who is experienced with men, but when she meets Arnold it only tells us that this is only a performance. She tries to be more of an attractive adult through her clothing, hairstyle, and her behavior to get the attention she wants from boys. The love and romance that is evident in songs she listens to and the images of pop culture that surround her are a lot more different from the reality of being an adult. A theme that seems to run through the story is that music is meant to be the way out of the real world into Connie's world of fantasy What teenagers don’t realize is that things on tv and the type of music they listen to is not

Perceval cleared his throat and did his best to change the direction of the conversation. He didn’t want the mood to turn somber. “It all happened ages ago. I’ve done a good deal of traveling and have had lots of adventures, so life’s been kind to me

“Open your eyes…” A voice whispered. I lifted an eyelid, feeling a warm breath on my neck.

One band some may know that was a popular grunge band in the 90’s was Nirvana, which consisted of lead singer and guitarist Kurt Cobain, drummer Dave Grohl, and bassist Krist Novoselic. This band was most popular for their hit album “Nevermind”. “One of their most popular songs on this album, ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’, has been and always will be a rebellion anthem for adolescents, empowering them. This message and it’s meaning make this one of the most popular songs by this band to date.”

What is your favorite television show? That question just might be the most asked question we ever here during our lifetime or right behind, what is your name? If there was a book of common questions to ask, probably somewhere in a Dating for Dummies book, that question is there, Guaranteed. Suits is an USA Network original series legal drama. It follows the life of Mike Ross, Harvard graduated Lawyer with a photographic memory, and Harvey Specter, a sarcastic, smart-alecky best closer in New York. A great legal drama obviously must have drama, and actual law practicing. It needs much more; it has to go deeper than that. It needs to have characters that viewers connect and grow with throughout the series, needs a great story to be told with

Throughout this paper I will be discussing the band Nirvana and their history has a band. I will discuss how they became so popular and why. Furthermore, I will discuss how this mass popularity relates to the impact they had on the development of youth culture at the time. I have chosen two songs to discuss and compare. These songs are “Come As You Are” and “Lithium”. Both were written by Nirvana and were hits on their second album “Nevermind”.

“We were clean hippies,” she said with a laugh. Decked out in military style jackets and peasant skirts, she did whatever she wanted. At the time, her favorite musicians were Crosby Stills Nash and Young and Simon and Garfunkel. “ I wasn’t a big Bob Dylan fan, well until later,” She recalls, “I was too shallow I guess.” Despite her age of just 15 years old, she, her sisters, and a group of teenagers from Southport went to Woodstock in 1969. Being the eager young teenagers they were, Emily arrived a day early and left a day late. She said, “I think woodstock was a three day festival but we were high most of it, so it might have been four days.” Drugs had begun entering the mainstream in a way that previous generations had not seen. Emily remembers drugs entering her social scene in 1965, when she was 11. She describes her parents as, “very innocent to it all.” While drugs were prevalent in the youth, where she was it didn’t spread onto the older