The newly remastered Beatles tunes have recently hit the stores. Between that and the marketing hype over at iTunes I have been inspired to listen to some of their music. As I listened to my CD I realized that much of their music is still very relevant today. I started thinking about how much the music and media industry have changed.
Primarily, I was thinking about explicit lyrics and where the overall morals of the whole media industry has gone.
I listened to more than two hours of Beatles songs and I don’t recall hearing any swear words in their music. The beat resembles the new music of today and there was even a little hidden sub context that could be found in some of their songs, but it was all done without being blatantly obvious. I can’t help but to think that it was my generation that was the one to embrace all of the language and violence that is acceptable in most media outlets today. The last Beatles album “Let it be” was released in 1970 and for some reason I can remember everything going downhill from there. Nowadays, if I turn on the radio or the TV it doesn’t take too long before I hear or see something that I would have never seen or heard in 1970. I also recall that many of the leniencies that we see today required a great amount of debate to get them approved for public consumption. Needless to say, they all seem to have gotten approved.
Somehow, I feel responsible for the music that I hear on the radio today, I was among the “early adapters”. I approved of it all and screamed “freedom of speech” like everybody else, until now.
Do they really NEED to throw in the extra cus words into the lyrics today? Couldn’t they just eliminate the explicit scenes from the TV shows and still make them good? Sometimes it makes me cringe when I hear or see things in the media. Unfortunately, I keep listening and I keep watching, but man do I wish that they could keep me and my family entertained without doing it quite so much.