Nearly every time I am driving through a new city, I check out the different radio stations. Of course it is all the same (and usually about the same place on the dial). You have the rap station up in the 106 frequency, country at 105/103, top 40’s music around 101/96, Christian around 90, and indie or jazz at 88/89 on the FM dial. I throw that out there just as information for the next time you go to the next major city as a general guide, but it also serves my first point: radio is so predictable.
MTV killed the art of music. It took what used to have to be pictured and turned it into a visual platform. It is like when a children’s book, such as Chronicles of Narnia, gets turned into a movie and a child no longer has to make up a picture of Aslan (not that I did not enjoy the movies, just saying…). The imagination and open-ended side to the songs is now gone. That is what makes music good though! That ambiguity that allows you to identify with the song with where you are at and how you are feeling makes for a beautiful interpretation. Since every teenager has raging hormones that they do not know what to do with, MTV plays videos that play to their desires (well…they used to play music videos anyways). Don’t worry, I’m not insulting your intelligence by stating we live in a culture plagued by sex, it is just that when I went to MTV.com earlier today, I found this on the side panel: Read More
