Music Monday

I appreciate good entertainment in the form of tasteful music like any avid music listener. I regularly try not to ask questions so that things that aren’t the way I feel are assumed. The type of music I listen to I feel the same way about as well. Before I categorize anything I listen to I hear it out to see if it’s my style.

Every time I go to the club – definitely when the moon’s blue of course – it’s the reaction that people get from the songs that make them popular. Depending on the type of music at times depicts the size and type of crowd it draws. Thus, genres – but a Billboard best is best regardless of genre.

For the last couple of years music has meta-morphed into more of a demographic questionnaire than anything else. But times are changing. Music is almost border-less, with R&B artists like Chris Brown being able to cross over into Pop with seeming ease. Given he’s a professional the feat is still admirable.

One of the reasons I think the 2011 summer was owned by up-tempo music, Chris Brown’s “Yeah 3X” being one of them, is music is back to being artist-driven versus a demographic census. People are back to dancing with a passion. The majority of the songs that do well with consumers are up-tempo. I’d like to believe it’s more than just the tempo that has people dancing. My theory is that music is back to the ingredient, a rekindled flame. Even the things that compliment music such as articles or blogs all dance in a unique way of being liberated from dullness. The artists are viewed as human instead of a product…creating a product that allows for pure talent and determining why we all were dancing at some point this summer. So here’s to a summer of dance and music finding its smile.

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