Thursday, December 9, 2010

Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder






Airplanes, they seem to be the best place to hear and see what other people are thinking. As you sit in the middle sit crammed next to two total strangers you hear the music blasting into the ears of the people next to you. On the right you have a ten year old girl who's disney pop Hannah Montana songs are singing morals like "Nobody's Perfect" at her. on the left you have the young man who is listening to a rap song by Eminem that he seems to be mouthing the words to but you can't understand a single on of them. Next, you pop your ear phones in and turn on your crooners playlist on your ipod starting with Frank Sinatra's "Fly Me to the Moon". Hearing all this racket the girl behind you turns on her Taylor Swift, prompting her neighbors to turn on their MGMT and Mozart respectively. Now, both of those two rows of people are happy, so the question is which of these is good music? I find that often times people trash each other's music, they say that it's crap music, that it's not music, parent's tell kids to turn off the garbage. But didn't their parents tell them that their music was garbage too? If you really think about it, all music is good music, yet the choice is yours on weather or not to appreciate it.