80's Music Essay

It is playing while you’re driving, you hear it in stores and even in public bathrooms. Music is everywhere that you go. One thing that hasn’t changed is how much people love music. It doesn’t matter what country or generation that you are from, the definition of music is still the same. According to Merriam Webster music is “vocal or instrumental sound (or both) combined in such a way as to produce beauty of form, body and expression of emotion” and “the science or art of ordering tones or sounds in succession, in combination, and in temporal relationships to produce a composition having unity and continuity.” With each generation the music industry has adapted and adjusted to be what people listen to and be remain a hit, whatever that takes. There has been a constant debate with the younger generation and the older generation about what is good music. Is music from the 1980’s and 1990’s better than the today’s music? I would argue that for various reasons music from the 80’s and 90’s is better than today’s music and vice versa. We often forget that the music we hear today is a version or a mixture of the music our parents, and even our grandparents heard when they were our age.

There was growing accessibility of music through streaming services and free websites like YouTube. This may be the reason why it appears as though today’s music is more popular than music from earlier decades. There was also a decline in the sale of vinyl, cd’s and records because of the rise of iTunes, which allowed music lovers to buy a song for 99 cents and access it at their fingertips. Even though music from the 80’s and 90’s was very popular and loved, the rise in technology made it seem as though music from the 2000’s and 2010’s was more popular. Although, now because of music applications such as Spotify and Pandora, listeners are now able to explore music from past