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Date Posted: 11:26:06 06/09/00 Fri
Author: Jason
Subject: Recycling The Music

Back when the Four Tops, The Temptations, Supremes, and
other R'n'B groups were big in the early 60s, R'n'B was king and played all
over the radio. Ever since the 50s begin, R'n'B was the main genre of music
and it eventually evolved into Rock'n'Roll, and into several other genres
the generation before us could never of imagined. The R'n'B and Rock'n'Roll music
was apart of every young adult's life, and became the stronghold of pop
culture.

Throughout several decades we expanded our imagination to more
complex forms of music. After The Beatles and Elvis, those young kids who
lived through the birth of R'n'B and early Rock'n'Roll, grew up as adults
into the early 70s to experience the sounds of Led Zeppelin, Bob Dylan,
Jimi Hendrix, Cat Stevens, and many other Classic Rock musicians.

Continuing the growth through adulthood, a new generation spawned
into a new era of music. Into the new wave of bands like Aerosmith, Pink Floyd,
Queen, and into the early 80s with The Police, U2, and more.

Through the quick growth of music, yesterday's generation of music
was nearly forgotton as the "oldies", a term given to the music of the 50s
and 60s pop culture music.

In the 90s, a generation of young kids unknowing of the vast
history of music had fell under the media and the exposure of R'n'B groups such as New Kids On The Block, 98 Degrees, N'Sync, Backstreet Boys, and others.
Back in the 50s and early 60s R'n'B was the main genre of music, and the media
had no other options of what groups they would expose to the listeners other than
R'n'B. In the 70s, R'n'B was classified as love ballad music, in the 80s it
was considered simple pop. In the 90s it was combined with hip hop and dance,
and in the late 90s it became, once again, the pop culture staple and
stronghold.

Who's buying this new R'n'B music? The adults who once listened to the
R'n'B of the 60s, and the young children who are exposed to the groups through
media, TV, radio, and more. Those a little older can remember the 80s and can
remember the days of rock music in a world of pop, and prefer the rock music over the R'n'B music.

If we look closely, we see the cycles of music, and the mirror that
repeats in itself through the next generation. It makes you wonder that if
R'n'B is the pop culture staple of today, and it was the same 40 years ago,
might we see a recycle of the music, and a regurgitation of each genre?

-Jason (Jam Reviewer)

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