Dance Music

Okay, let's get one thing STRAIGHT: Pop does not /Rock, and Rap is just Crap with the C off the front. Maybe I'm an ignorant fool, and there really is a deeper message behind all those pop/rap songs which sound exactly the same--but at least I'm an ignorant fool with musical taste!

Here's how it is, written by an authentic stuck-in-60's-and-70's girl: I think they should play soul and rock music at dances. No, seriously! I confess that when I attend a school dance, the rap and bouncing around is thrilling and really fun, for a time, especially with all the lights and glitzy effects and stuff. But as soon as my quadriceps begin to ache and I want to sit down for a dance or two, I have to go outside, where I can't hear the music. To me, rap really isn't catchy at all! I lose interest in the dancing if I can't find my friends, because the music sucks so bad, I can't just listen and have fun by myself. I can only return to the dance floor when they're playing something with a TUNE, which is usually some sappy slow song about "don't-leave-me-girl-or-i'll-do-something-really-bad-like-sing-in-a-falsetto". I think if they played good 60's and 70's rock and soul music there, people could sit out dances and still enjoy it--plus we wouldn't all have to listen to slow songs, thinking, "Oh, I wish I hadn't eaten those refreshments."

And see, I don't object to the fact that the only songs played at dances are ones about broken hearts or new relationships or all that fun and happy lurrrve stuff. Not at all! I'm not telling everyone to play anti-government songs at dances; that's not what I mean when I say 60's and 70's! The themes for the songs were a lot the same in those days as they are these days, and hell! I don't care. But half the time, whether we're listening to old music or current crap, we don't understand half the words. So while we're at it, why don't we pick songs where we can enjoy the tune at least?

You don't all have to take my hate of current music to heart, seeing as I am writing this post while listening to "The Very Best of Aretha Franklin", and it's hard for me to listen to a singer like Aretha and admire today's pop singers. But here's all I'm saying: why don't we bring back some of the old songs, the ones in which tunes existed?

TFATF!!!!
-Ahaneen :D