Music is a very accurate recording of how society changes.



How many times have we heard pop, rock, and R&B music? We grew up listening to Britney Spears, Backstreet Boys, and Spice Girls. Now, these musical icons are somehow extinct to a point, replaced by a wider array of music variety, like Busta Rhymes, Vannessa Carlton, Jason Mraz, and, in my case, Miley Cyrus. But did we even listen to older musical groups and singers? Ever heard of Earth, Wind, and Fire, Abba, Toto, BeeGees, and Michael Jackson (with the King of Pop, of course you have)? Have you crooned to the melody of the Swing-Out Sisters, Basia, and The Carpenters?



I'm a newbie musician/songwriter/full time music lover. That's why I could document these things. History is actually unfolded in music. Yesterday, today, and more probably tomorrow is pockmarked with tones and melodies which will actuate each generation.

It's just sad that our taste for music is slowly deteriorating. In the past, songs like "Guilty", "Achy, Breaky Heart", and "Heal the World" amuse, educate, and mobilize people to make a change in positive means and lyrics. Nowadays, hiphop, punk, and dirty rap are genres which invade people's minds and pollute the young ones with nasty words and stupid rhymes. What happened to "Heal the World"?

Good thing some singers are remaking old songs. I applaud the Filipino bands who remade the songs of Apo Hiking Society. They made the vintage songs more understandable by younger people. Now teens like me are jammin' to old tunes while reveling in our own generation environment.

Here's to responsible song composition!!!