Essay On Modern Pop Music

Does modern pop music care more about image or musical content? Music is a stress reliever. It’s what people go to to get a message, heal wounds, and get motivation. In order to make it big you had to have severe talent. You would have to master an instrument, be able to sing, and able to write songs that are not only catchy, but speak to the audience. Most modern day music has nothing to do with the powerful voice you have. All that matters is that you’re able to work an auto-tune. Auto-tune is used in almost every single modern day song that comes out.

Modern Pop musicians care about their popularity and image more than they care about their lyrics. I don’t think anyone could successfully deny that image has always been important in popular music. The significance of image has increased a lot in

the past 5 years. Indie Alternative musicians care more about their lyrics. For example Lana Del Rey writes about the losses in her life. Birdy writes about her pain and how she wants to help people. Tyler Joseph from Twenty One Pilots writes about how he deals with his depression and anxiety. Indie Alternative may not be as popular as Pop music, but it has artists who want to help people through their music.
When you listen to a song on the radio, you concentrate on the lyrics and the beat. You don’t always think about the layers of instruments that work together to create a song. Whether the instruments are recorded or the instrumentation is combined in a studio. Musicians need many different instrument sounds to create a full song. A typical pop song uses 7 different instruments. These instruments include vocals, bass guitar, acoustic guitar, drums, winds and brass, strings, piano, and percussion. Most Indie music is acoustic/electric based. Usual instruments used are acoustic guitar, bass guitar, drums, and keyboard. With more emphasis on the keyboards the vocal style varies.
Mainstream music lyrics have become more explicit in their references to drugs and violence over the years.

It negatively affects the children of a young age. Songs that have inappropriate themes encourage children to follow the theme so that they will look ‘cool’. Different artists are writing songs about getting drunk and doing drugs like it’s a good thing. That can influence the child negatively because they look up to that particular artist and wants to be just like them. While Indie Alternative lyrics are more meaningful. Birdy’s song Words as Weapons is about how she has been pushed past her breaking point and how her boyfriend was using his words to hurt her. In her song she talks about how she shuts him off. Indie Alternative musicians like Lana Del Rey, Marina and the Diamond, Birdy, and even Twenty One Pilots all write about their lives and personal issues.

In the end Modern Pop music is more different than Indie Alternative music. While Modern music cares more about image and popularity Indie Alternative cares more about helping their fans. Modern music may have more of a variety but Indie Alt has more of an emotional

impact.