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The Ambiguity of Media Stereotype Here ye Here ye, let the MTV generation unfold itself upon our dark hour. Let the media further divide and segregate our children. Subject them to like subcultures and groups known vastly as cliques. Let the collapse of all things relevant fall onto their shoulders. So the Question begins: Why is it only ok to play music on the radio that is inoffensive and unobtrusive? Whatever happened to music full of ideas like the ‘60s? Why does every style of music have to have subclass upon
subclass? Let’s take the scene I grew up
on punk rock and metal. In punk rock first off, it was never about making
money, it was about the statement, a minute rebirth of what the hippie
movement was all about to set things right… to fix our government… to weed
out that which we see as being wrong. But as it progressed and grew, the
scene started to become the epitome of teenage angst and rebellion. The need
to diversify yourself from the rest of the crowd. Diversity is good, but not
when fights and gangs evolve over different tastes in music. And with
overwhelming diversity comes the need to segregate and divide, weakening the
cause.
Now fuck metal, lets move to hip-hop. A lot of you on the West Coast know of Power106, and the Beat. The two biggest pop culture radio stations we have here- both of who preach "erase the hate" and "no color lines". Don’t tell me that this is true- how can you justify the nature of these statements when you only play one single style of music, R&B and hip hop. KROQ’s closer to embracing that ideology than Power and the Beat. They play music from Cypress Hill to Pennywise, a full circle of the music scene. The Hippocratic ways in which people segregate and divide themselves is gonna end up hurting further and further generations down the line. Wake up- Erase The Hate…. But do it right Practice what you Preach. |