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Popular Music, 2010
We explored themes related to sexual desire (lust) and romantic desire (love) in the lyrics of popular music over the past 40 years. We examined whether there have been changes in the prevalence of lust and love themes and changes in how these themes inter-relate in music lyrics over time. The study sample consisted of the top 40 songs of Billboard Year End Hot 100 single songs for every 5 years from 1971 to 2011 (N = 360). There was a linear decrease over time in the proportion of songs with a love theme and in the proportion of songs with a combination of lust and love themes. In contrast, there was a significant increase in the proportion of songs with a theme focusing on lust in the absence of love. Themes of lust in the absence of love were especially prevalent in hip-hop/rap music, although music genre did not account for the changing themes over time. These shifts in themes found in popular music may both influence cultural norms and reflect a cultural shift toward acceptance of sexuality outside of love relationships.
Arxiv preprint arXiv:1003.2095, 2010
I consider some ways in which our intuitive understanding of nature of line and linearity have exerted an influence on how we conceive of reality in general. My principle topic is something of fundamental importance: the nature of space and time.
Truth From Within revolves around the progressive metal band named Tool and how it contains so much more meaning than just ‘some cool music to listen to’. Music has the power to influence people through the overall sound, the lyrics, and even the videos made for the music. Tool should not be judged by a first glance at the song titles or images displayed, but should be analyzed and meditated upon to find its true meaning. Many of the songs have powerful initial feelings portrayed and use themes such as addiction, drugs, and abuse, which some may say is evil and should be kept from people. If you look deeper into these songs they are only using these themes to make a powerful and shocking message that goes so much deeper. This paper sought the song meanings through interviews, quotes during live concerts, the music and videos, as well as outside resources that supported these ideas through research. The songs bring about ideas of lack of empathy, addiction, choosing compassion over fear and being connected with one another, as well as finding truth in a world where everything revolves around listening to directions and following rules. Tool incorporates philosophy, spirituality, politics, truth, and psychology in their music as well as countless more themes, making them have a lot to say with a unique and shocking visual aid of these themes, making it a sort of brutal honesty.
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Straight edge is a multifaceted phenomenon that varies across time, areas and scenes. Straight edge political identity is not solid or precise, it being more of an amalgam of conservative and progressive political elements (Haenfler 2006). However, the connections between anarchy and straight edge prevail, especially over the last few years. Hardcore punk music and anarchist political philosophy are intrinsically connected, as the hardcore DIY ethics, political lyrics etc denote. Straight edge takes it a step further. Intoxication culture is often considered to serve as a form of social control and distraction, or as a weapon used by the State and government to dismantle resistant movements. Thus, for many straight edge adherents, the abstinence from the intoxication culture is also an act of resistance against the state control. Veganism and animal and earth liberation ethics are also prominent in straight edge subculture since the late 80's, shaping the vegan branch of straight edge. In this regard, the Total Liberation movement can serve to correlate these two aspects of straight edge ideology, anarchism and earth/animal liberation ethics. Straight edge is an ideology-based music subculture (Kennedy 2008). There is a complementary relationship between the straight edge music and its ethical core, since the music reflects and incorporates the ‘message’ of each song, and the straight edge ethics are often influenced and shaped within the music scenes (Wood 2006). Though there are many musical parameters that can serve as an indicator of a subculture’s ethics (such as the form of a song, the standardized techniques, the ‘gang’ vocals etc), the lyrics constitute a prevailing one. In this paper I will use straight edge total liberation bands’ lyrics indicatively to deconstruct the relationship between straight edge subculture and the total liberation movement.
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