The last couple of weeks, I have been doing some intense cleaning in my iTunes. I'm a huge fan of music, I listen to it all day, all the time, with people or alone. To be honest, I rather listen to music than hearing someone speak. Also as a dancer, music is a huge inspiration to me.
The reason why I have been “cleansing” my iTunes is because I found out that there are so many songs I listened to that really makes no sense at all... lyrically of course.
Music is supposed to inspire – Lauryn Hill.
When something inspires us, whether we think we are in control over the situation or not, it automatically becomes a part of us. The word inspiration means to be mentally stimulated by a doing or a feeling in a process of time.
A couple of weeks ago, I went to an M.O.P and Talib Kweli concert. With all the love I used to have for Talib's music, I had to leave the concert before it ended. I seriously could not stand being in that place for long.
If music is supposed to inspire, why do we willingly let ourselves be inspired by songs that glorifies excessive use of violence, sex, drugs, alcohol etc?
Shouldn't we as humans be driven to aim for something better than that?
The reason why I have been “cleansing” my iTunes is because I found out that there are so many songs I listened to that really makes no sense at all... lyrically of course.
Music is supposed to inspire – Lauryn Hill.
When something inspires us, whether we think we are in control over the situation or not, it automatically becomes a part of us. The word inspiration means to be mentally stimulated by a doing or a feeling in a process of time.
A couple of weeks ago, I went to an M.O.P and Talib Kweli concert. With all the love I used to have for Talib's music, I had to leave the concert before it ended. I seriously could not stand being in that place for long.
If music is supposed to inspire, why do we willingly let ourselves be inspired by songs that glorifies excessive use of violence, sex, drugs, alcohol etc?
Shouldn't we as humans be driven to aim for something better than that?
We let our mind get invaded with lyrics that promote violence and murder, but still we claim that we are against it, or immoral sexual behaviors, but we still claim that we are against that as well. There are also lyrics that dignify drug and alcohol abuse as entertaining, we listen to them inspite of the fact that we profess to be against that. Do I sense a double morality?
Music is in fact a very big inspiration. Words that are either spoken or written are inspirations to the human soul. They bring wisdom to the receiver.
A lot of lyrics ooze out shallowness, something that clearly does not mirror the real life.
In other words, we should be careful with what we listen to, we should be careful with what we let ourselves be inspired by, our actions depends on it.
*UPDATE*
This is my opinion of true and soulful music.
Original version - Bob Marley.
ENJOY!
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