Music is beginning to make that shift again. Artists will always have their say; but it seems high time songwriters had once again, that place where they used to capture the EAR of the public. Not to get religious or promote political views, like we see so much of today; but rather to just say something valueble again. Something of lasting value; something like IMAGINE.
Imagine a time like the 80's when music just flowed from our radios like pure water. We were captivated by artists like Phil Collins, Elton John, David Bowie, Lionel Ritchie, Stevie Wonder, Steve Winwood, The Beach Boys, Van Halen, Styx, Aha, Wham, Elton John, The Thompson Twins, Tears For Fears, The Stray Cats and a ploethera of other artists who seem to have faded out to the blur of hip-hop, rap, and "country" music.
Artists today are afraid to protest war, stand up for rights or even raise money for a good cause. This has to change! Corporate media must be fully diminished and replaced once again by real human expression, whether the lobbyists, politicians, religious establishments or special interest groups like it or not. Our right to express ourselves in the past few years seems to really have been trampled upon. It's almost like it's unpopular to voice our opinion about the most pressing issues of the day. Freedom of speech is the single most important freedom we have. We haven't lost IT yet, but if we don't start using it and saying what we feel, even if it's just love we feel; we are could end up like europe in the early twentieth century.
Music is the single most powerful influence on earth; even so much as it is written in The Bible: "Uplift one another with spiritual songs." Music is the best way to foster freedom.
