I remember when music was still music. Lately, all I hear on the radio is noise. Am I just getting prematurely old? I know after a certain age any new music seems to be noise but I'm pretty sure you have to be older than in your 20's. Music today is the equivalent of noise and it has lost the very foundation that makes it music.

A basic description of lyrical music is that it is poetic storytelling. I've noticed that most hits as of lately do not tell a story. Lyrics are overly repetitive, in fact most of them are just very few verses with a lot of repeating lines. Those lines are sang to a strong, almost overpowered, bass. These few things somehow make hit music, well I guess anything can be a hit then!

Perhaps this fact is simply because we're in a musical era where dance music is the most popular. Don't get me wrong, I do feel a lot of songs have a good beat and are fun to dance to. I just feel they're missing the body of the song, which is essential and it can be done for dance music as well. Remember Disco? That's exactly what it was, dance music.

Also, what happened to class? Or at least finding creative ways to work the true meaning of a song in. Music today is vulgar, sex-centered and self-centered. A great snapshot of society as we know it today! When I do listen to the hits station it almost sounds like music is half-censored because there are so many vulgar words or phrases. At least half of our music catalog also features songs that are violent and all about money.

At the core, music is about expressing emotion. The idea is to provide artists with a way to connect with their listeners and talk about something that was either going on in the world, or personally affected them. In this way, artists spread important messages and help people get through tough times which helps make people feel less alone.

Since the dawn of time, people have turned to music to help them over a bump in the road of life. One example is Swing music in the 20s, this music was positive and perfect for a postwar world. Another example might be every anti-war or protest song in the 1960s and on. Artists spoke their mind because they didn't like how things were done back then which spoke volumes to the people on the receiving end.

Music has truly lost what makes it special, we are missing the heart and the human interest parts of songs. It is not all about sales and people back in the day knew that. They did it because they wanted to because they felt their view on a lot of matters was worth taking a listen to. I feel that with how our music is now, there won't be much to remember. In 50 - 60 years, what will we look back on? We will ask the question "Where is the music?" Can we answer that? It may not be too late to make sure we have an answer.