music and politics

Well I was just thinking about music and it hit me today that music is a lot like politics and it makes a lot of sense. Mainstream music is the music for the masses. These artists perform and create music that can be consumed, understood, and evaluated clearly and effectively by a vast majority of people. Even though their ideas are very concrete and can be deep and complicated, musicly they are easily interpreted and understood so everybody can take part. These artists would represent the middle of the spectrum, our democratic and republican nominees.

Then as you branch out farther left and right you get into a different more individualistic type of expression that only certain groups within the human listening audience can interpret and understand. These are your originators and actual creators. These are the people that question the boundaries of music itself and are in it not for the money, recognition, or exposure, but instead the journey of possibly stumbling upon something new, different, and exciting. Or maybe these are the people that are content, inside and out, with who they are and what they feel. I'm not sure, but both categories work jointly on the most basic level to create a very wide spectrum of music where anyone can belong or incorporate themselves within creating a popular musical culture with each individual having their own musical ideology. What gets you bumpin' and what gets me bumpin' can be totally different things, but the majority of our age group can equally get down to Sandstorm or Party In The USA... ya dig?

I just thought this was pretty cool and I think we should look at people, ideas, politics, life maybe, with just a more open and more liberal perspective when it comes to decisions, opportunites, etc. I've been recently been getting tangled in more debate over Obama and politics lately than ever before and I feel that people need to understand that there is never a right or wrong answer with life. Everyone has an opinion and yes "mistakes" can be made whether you think getting into the war for example was a mistake or not is up to you to decide. I just think that we all need to respect everyone's background and ideas and use these things to try to create the best society we can. Yea, I dream big but why not? What do I really have to lose?

Keep The Peace

-Mervyn