Contemporary music industry and its impact on society. Where can I find good songs?

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

The fourth lecture of the project Teach good from the course "Information security of the individual in the conditions of aggressive mass culture" (14+).

Contemporary music industry

How often music is heard from everywhere. Music becomes the sound background of our life. Are you familiar with the sensations when you just forgot to take headphones with you? Silence, no - even emptiness. Unusual, and hands tend to turn on something. The music stops playing - the inner voice turns on, and somehow I don't want to listen to it at all. Reminds us of unfinished business, reproaches us for something, brings serious thoughts. No, a new track would have started soon. We just got used to music, we got used to not being alone all the time, but with these funny (or not so) musical rhythms. Probably, everyone has their favorite melodies, at the sound of which, somewhere deep inside, lines of familiar songs pop up. At the same time, it often happens that a person knows the text of a song by heart, but he never thought about the meaning of the words imprinted in his memory and even often pronounced words. This is because most people are used to listening to music in the background or rest format, that is, relaxing and not thinking about anything, enjoying emotions or simply plunging into third-party thoughts. As a result of such listening, a person's worldview is filled with texts and meanings that have not been filtered at the level of consciousness. And since the information is presented accompanied by various rhythms and melodies, it is absorbed very well, and later, from the subconscious level, it begins to influence human behavior. What programs of behavior is broadcasted to a mass audience by modern popular music - the one that is played on television and on the radio, and can one treat it unconsciously, that is, without thinking about its influence? Let's watch a few video reviews:

After watching these videos, it is appropriate to recall the quote of the ancient Chinese philosopher Confucius: “The destruction of any state begins precisely with the destruction of its music. People who do not have pure and light music are doomed to degeneration."

Please note that in the last review, it was not only about the content of specific songs, but also about the general direction of the topic of popular music. This is an important nuance that must be taken into account. After all, music should reflect different aspects of our life, and not raise one to an inappropriate size and importance. Creativity of a person, when it comes from the soul, always reflects his inner world, touches upon issues of personal development, search for answers to exciting questions. If creativity is replaced by business, and making money comes first, then its content is automatically filled with the appropriate meanings and forms: primitive, stereotyped, insipid, stupid. Listening to the content that is currently shown on music TV channels on the air of most radio stations is a real process of programming people to unconsciously realize in their lives all the behavioral models listed in the videos. At the same time, in the presented video reviews, only the content of the texts and the video sequence of the clips was analyzed, but the rhythm, and tonality, and melody, and the volume of music have a huge impact on a person. After all, any music is, after all, vibrations that can either harmonize with the inner state of a person, or literally act destructively.

The impact of music on society

Dissonance in music, sudden changes in rhythm, loud sound - all this is perceived by the body as stress, as a polluting factor that affects not only the nervous, but also the cardiovascular and endocrine systems. On the Internet, you can find the results of many experiments that show that if classical or folk music improves mental abilities, then modern pop music, built on the same rhythms, or heavy torn music, on the contrary, depress the human psyche, impairing memory, abstract thinking, attentiveness. You can clearly see the influence of music in these pictures:

These photographs were taken by Japanese explorer Masaru Emoto. He exposed the water to the influence of different melodies and human speech, after which he froze it and photographed the resulting frozen water crystals with high magnification. As you can see on the slide, under the influence of the sounds of classical music, crystals of distilled water acquire graceful symmetrical shapes, under the influence of heavy music or negative words, emotions, frozen water forms chaotic, fragmented structures. Considering that we are all mostly water, you can imagine what a significant impact music has on us. For this reason, the choice of those songs that you often listen to yourself or include children, should be considered consciously, assessing the impact of the music and the effect you would like to get.

Music affects a person in 3 aspects:

1. Meaningful message of lyrics and video sequence of clips
2. Vibrations of music (rhythm, tonality, melody, timbre of voice, etc.)
3. Personal qualities of popular performers whose lives are on display

As the third item on this slide, we highlighted the personal aspect related to the morality of those performers who receive fame and glory. Since modern show business is built on the fact that it brings up for public discussion the entire personal life of the so-called stars, imposing them on the younger generations as idols who personify “success”, then when evaluating modern songs, one must also take into account the lifestyle that is broadcast by their example their performers. Everyone has probably heard of such a popular Western singer as Madonna. Let's see what kind of ideology she promotes with her creativity, and by her personal example.

As part of the Teach Good project, similar reviews were made on other most popular Western artists: Miley Cyrus, Lady Gaga, Rihanna - and it's the same everywhere. Their career is developing as a template: from relatively simple and modest girls, having entered the show business industry, they are gradually turning into those whose photographs and fruits of creativity are even embarrassing to demonstrate during a lecture because of obsessive vulgarity and vulgarity. At the same time, it is these stars who are constantly awarded the main music awards, their videos are played on TV channels and radio stations, even in Russia their songs are regularly played. That is, just like in cinematography, the same system is built in the music industry, based on 3 main instruments: institutes of awards, financial flows and control over the central media.

Where can I find good songs?

It is almost impossible to break through this barrier for good performers - those who sing really meaningful songs and try to direct their creativity for the good of people. The situation begins to change only today, when, with the advent of the Internet, everyone has the opportunity to act as an independent media through their accounts in social networks, through blogging and website creation. The emergence of the Teach Good project and many other associations of caring people is a natural process of destruction of the old system, built on strict control of persons admitted to the media. And it is on the Internet that you can find songs of those performers whom you will not hear on TV, but whose music is really pleasant and useful to listen to. They also tour cities, perform on stages, collect full houses, but their photographs are not printed in glossy magazines, and their songs are not broadcast on popular radio stations or music TV channels. Because for the modern music industry, their work does not fit according to the “format” defined and imposed on a wide audience through the same mass media, or rather, the means of forming and managing public consciousness. As an example of meaningful creativity, we bring to your attention one of the songs that were invented and recorded by the readers of the Teach Good project.