Popular Music , Dumbing Down Our Kids?

[conny63malies]

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I agree those songs don't require alot of brain power to understand, but my point is more of the dumbing down of the english language , not the cheese factor of those songs.

You have to admit even "Baby Got Back" was not butchered with slang and lazy talking. It was a cheesy song at best, but he wrote it well.

When exactaly did that whole extreme slang start? and why is is so great to be "hood" and gangsta" I still love baby got back, Funky cold Medina and Wild thing.

 

[Masonic Chicken]

I am not exactly sure when it started. If I had to pinpoint the whole Gangster thing, I would say that came heavily into play with, 2Pac, Biggie, and Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg back in the day....

BUT....

Even they had intelligent lyrics. So the whole hood and ignorant thing I would not say was started with them....can't say who really started that....maybe Nelly?

 

[agnes_day]

i remember those! i thought those were racy back then..it seems like society as a whole has gotten trashier in the past 20 years..its almost a race to see who can be the most morally bankrupt or something.

 

[Masonic Chicken]

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I really couldn't disagree with you...I am pretty tolerent I think,I can handle rap music, I can handle Heavy Metal, I like Country, I listen to everything, just make it intelligent.

I am tired of the old "Keeping It Real" type of people

To quote Chris Rock "They Love To Keep It Real........Real Dumb"

 

[conny63malies]

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I really couldn't disagree with you...I am pretty tolerent I think,I can handle rap music, I can handle Heavy Metal, I like Country, I listen to everything, just make it intelligent.

I am tired of the old "Keeping It Real" type of people

To quote Chris Rock "They Love To Keep It Real........Real Dumb"

I usually listen to country and 80 metal. Right now i got "Let the guitar do the talking " by John Anderson stuck in my head

 

[ivan3]

Dumbing down is one of the requirements of every iteration of Tin Pan Alley (genre is window dressing). Just as popular romantic fiction pretty much adheres to the same theme so to does the music (love's wooed/love's lost/love's attained). The rhythm has gotten more pronounced and obvious, but Alexander's Ragtime Band had its critics claiming corruption.

From a bicycle built for two to big butts is a very short ride.

Misogyny is more obvious in some of the current lyrics but, I'll just give a tip o' the hat to Bill Monroe on the utility of women:

"I got a pig at home in a pen
Corn to feed him on
All I need's a pretty little girl
To feed I'm when I'm gone

Going up on a mountain
To sow a little cane
Raise a barrel of sorghum
Sweet little Liza Jane

Black clouds arising
Sure sign of rain
Put that old gray bonnet
On little Liza Jane

Yonder comes that gal of mine
How do you think I know
Know her by that gingham gown
Hanging down so low

Bake them biscuits baby
Bake em good and brown
When you get them biscuits baked
We're Alabama bound"

Though I'm a big fan of the Gershwins, there are times I'd rather cue up Tone Loc's Cheeba Cheeba than `S Wonderful.
However, if I want to listen to Iggy Pop's Pumping for Jill at maximum volume I'll use headphones. If someone would market a short range ground-to-ground missle with an infrasound seeker I'd be the first in line to buy a few and clear the roads of oncoming boomers. Wouldn't do much to help purify the language, but I'd be proud to do my bit for the noise pollution associated with the potential idiotrification...

 

[Masonic Chicken]

80's Metal, thats my absolute favorite.
I would say Motley Crue , are hands down favortie band from the era.
I also love all kinds of other stuff.....love the glam and the thrash stuff too.

 

[conny63malies]

Ivan , i got one of thoe boomers too driving down my road. I really enjoy waking up at 3 am

 

[conny63malies]

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My DH named our son Sebastian, after Skid Row front man Sebastian Bach, the "whooohoooo king" king as he calls them.

 

[pdsavage]

what i would like to know is since when did MTV start playing music videos agian?????