Pop Music
Yes. Pop music. For parents of teenagers back in the 1950’s it was a shock-horror experience as they tried to protect their children from its ‘depravity’.
With my teenage children, in the 1970’s and 1980’s, I enjoyed their choice of music (mostly), determined not to be as close-minded as my parents.
Since then, to while away a rare gap in my day, I’ve occasionally checked in with MTV (or its equivalent in NZ) to watch a few songs being performed, much to my wife’s disapproval of such ‘teenage activity’. I often found the viewing ‘adgy’ but never ‘depraved’.
Just recently though, either because of my increasing age or a change in the nature of music videos, I’m starting to feel sorry for today’s teenagers. In the 1950’s, many of the songs were about young love. Today, the equivalent songs are becoming more and more overtly sexual both in lyrics and images.
It creates an emptiness – sex for sex sake – divorced from any concept of love. I won’t moralise beyond saying that I do think to-days teens are being deprived of values-laden music about human relationships (as compared to those in the 1950s).
Without love, sex, and singing about it, are an empty shell hanging in a void.
With my teenage children, in the 1970’s and 1980’s, I enjoyed their choice of music (mostly), determined not to be as close-minded as my parents.
Since then, to while away a rare gap in my day, I’ve occasionally checked in with MTV (or its equivalent in NZ) to watch a few songs being performed, much to my wife’s disapproval of such ‘teenage activity’. I often found the viewing ‘adgy’ but never ‘depraved’.
Just recently though, either because of my increasing age or a change in the nature of music videos, I’m starting to feel sorry for today’s teenagers. In the 1950’s, many of the songs were about young love. Today, the equivalent songs are becoming more and more overtly sexual both in lyrics and images.
It creates an emptiness – sex for sex sake – divorced from any concept of love. I won’t moralise beyond saying that I do think to-days teens are being deprived of values-laden music about human relationships (as compared to those in the 1950s).
Without love, sex, and singing about it, are an empty shell hanging in a void.
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