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Today Electronic Jukeboxes Like iTunes, Niche Radio Stations, Satellite And Streaming Web Radio Let Everyone Listen Only To Whatever Music They Prefer.
CHICAGO As I scrolled thru my Twitter timeline last Sunday night, the MTV Video Music Awards-related tweets gave me that gloomy twinge a few individuals get when they realize they’re getting older and are out of touch with young peoples passions.
I haven’t observed a music award show in decades and, though Woman Gaga, Beyonce and Katy Perry are familiar from the mag covers I see at the grocery store checkout, their music has never reached, not to mention touched, me.
I miss how music used to be more of a communal experience. Today electronic jukeboxes such as iTunes, niche of list of radio stations, satellite and streaming Web radio let everyone listen only to whatever music they prefer. Few of us get exposed to differing types of music as we used to when tunes weren’t chopped, cubed and targeted to particular market segments.
Remember when it seemed as if everyone listened to Casey Kasem’s Top forty? Today Billboard has so many chartsradio songs, digital songs and ring-tones, plus 29 different genres such as rock, classical, “Latin,” and “kids”I have no idea where to begin.
This is not always a lousy thing, but I am a sap for a time when “popular” music, aka pop, portended delicate societal shifts.
As an example, think back to 1984 when massive audiences tuned into the two yearly music award shows and Michael Jackson was winning several VMAs and Grammys for “Thriller.” His hit performances at those shows exposed millions to a new advance by a successful and proficient black artist. It was actually the start of a fledgling aim for black parity in conventional entertainment that started picking up steam later that year when “The Cosby Show” started its eight-season run on NBC.
For me, 1985 was the important musical year. I was a world-weary 10-year-old who pushed the car’s radio dial to alternative stations that played punk, tried my best to dress like Madonna, and was totally intolerant of my parents’ Spanish-language music.
Their salsa, cumbia, merengue and mariachi corridos continually filled up the house and accompanied every big family get-together. It was music that I felt required complex dance moves that I wouldn’t have dreamed of attempting, was surely not “cool” and, to my teen mind, definitely not American.
And then in October the Miami Sound Machine zoomed up the Poster advertisement Hot hundred with “Conga,” which became the first single to be concurrently included on Billboard’s pop, Latin, soul, and dance charts.
Epiphany time : the trumpet-cowbell-hot-piano-timbale combo was overwhelming, not simply to me but to other folks, most critically my classmates and the people listening to English-language radio.
I will always remember the look on my parents’ faces the 1st time they heard me blaring “Conga” on my boombox. “What are you listening to?” my mother asked, startled. She called my pa over to witness the miracle of my embrace of a musical style that I had formerly refused. They actually beamed with joy.
I shrugged it off, but mainstream audiences happily doing the “Conga” made me embrace a part of my culture that I’d never actually given any thought to. Back then, at least in Chicago, no one was going around making a fuss about who was Latino or Hispanic. I thought of myself as simply American.
The idolization of “Conga” was like a Michael Jackson moment for me and other Hispanics. The song’s recognition prepared the ground for an even broader audience’s embrace of Los Lobos’ version of “La Bamba,” from the film about Ritchie Valens. Many radio stations played the song, with its folkloric guitar outro, in its entirety.
Those were heady days leading in to Ronald Reagan signing the not-particularly-contentious Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. Salsa was on its way to becoming as preferred a seasoning as ketchup. Who’d have imagined that a quarter of a century later folk would be really concerned about America losing its very soul to Latino culture.
Today calls for a new song to remind individuals that Hispanic and mainstream cultures can come together and be enjoyed equally by folk of all racesafter all, there aren’t any census form race designations on the dance floor. Where are you, crossover star? And are you able to hit the Hot 100 in time for next year’s MTV Video Music Awards? – as reported tagya.com.
Music Sounds Better With You – Big Time Rush w/ Lyrics
