The Fascinations of Pop Music Since the first appearance of human civilization, music plays an important role for humans to deliver messages and express their feelings. The Skills epitaph, as an example, which is the oldest surviving example of a complete musical composition, it delivers a deathless remembrance message. As time passes, music has been developed into various genres, Jazz, Rock n’ Roll, Classical, pop music and etc. Although music experienced many revolutions and generated into various genres, the purpose of music didn’t change and it will never change, that is to deliver assuages.
As teenagers, they most likely to listen to pop music. Thus, pop music affects teenagers the most in all genres of the music. Depending on its lyrics and rhythm, pop music can whether educate teenagers,entertain teenagers or encourage teenagers. An online survey from smarting. Org declares that there are 84% teenagers like to listen to music, 32% of them love pop music which is 16% more than the second most. This survey clearly certifies that pop music has an unlimited and imponderable potential to affect teenagers. Thus, pop music can be used to educate teenagers.
Music and Learning bacchius Boyd Brewer, a professor from Johns Hopkins University, also declare that pop music has a unlimited and imponderable potential on educational purpose: Music can be used to help us remember learning experiences and information. In Active Learning Experiences music creates a soundtrack for a learning activity. The soundtrack increases interest and activates the information mentally, physically, or emotionally. Music can also create a highly focused learning state in which scapulars and reading material is absorbed at a great rate.
When information is put to rhythm and rhyme these musical elements will provide a hook for recall. Not only pop music itself is a effective way to educate teenagers, it also can be used for educational purpose by changing the lyrics of the song. With its wonderful rhythm, pop music artists can easily deliver information into teenagers’ minds. By changing the lyrics of a popular pop song, it can be replaced with positive knowledge and information. After that, it can be played to the students. In this case, the rhythm will catch students’ attention immediately.
Right after they paid attention to the rhythm of the song, the lyrics will come into their minds. Because it is a rhythm with lyrics instead of Just words, students then will memorize the lyrics that contains knowledge and information with the rhythm. It is more efficient than Just looking at the words and memorizing them. “Solubility Rules”, is a very good example that a pop song is used to educate teenagers. The original edition of this song is called “call me maybe” by Carry Rae Spend.
Because of its famousness and influence in teenagers society, Professor Lighter replaced the original lyrics with chemical terms The Fascination of Pop Music By Justifying teenagers will find enjoyment in it. Another fascination of pop music must be its entertainment capability. It is the most obvious function of pop music. According to a research by The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation in 2010, it stats that 8-18 years old teens averagely spend 2 hours and 19 minutes a day on listening music. This statistic clearly demonstrates that USIA occupies a very important part in teenager’s life everyday.
Thus, music has its importance and significance to teenagers. For example, teenagers play pop music on parties in order to gain more fun. When they stress out, teenagers will listen to pop music to release their pressure. Nowadays, teenagers can access to pop music very easily. Therefore, more and more teenagers choose to listen to pop songs as an entertainment when they are bored, or getting boring on a task. When teenagers are getting bored, they usually use pop music as a tool to encourage themselves while they are working.
But most teenagers have a misunderstanding of this concept, they think that listening to pop music can make them be concentrated on work. Yet, a Pop music is not able to help teenagers to be concentrated and it will distract teenagers’ concentration. In addition, teenagers more likely to listen to sadly pop song when they are sad. So how can pop music encourage teenagers? Recently, a group of Japanese researcher had figure out why teenagers more likely to choose sad song as an encouragement when they are unhappy.
After in a study of 44 people, they summarized their research, “The listeners felt less gloomy, meditative, and miserable as well as more fascinated, dear, in love, merry, animated, and inclined to dance when they listened to sad music compared with their actual perceptions of the same music. “(Freer) They also classified this phenomenon as “sweet anticipation”. When teenagers with broken hearts listens to a song that applies to their experiences, they will find sympathy with that song, as if they found a people that can be able to understand their situations ND comfort their sentiment and telling them they are not alone.
The teenagers will soon recover from sadness because anticipation they found among the song. Furthermore, “sweet anticipation” phenomenon is the reason why pop music encourage teenagers to learn instruments. These are how pop songs can encourage “Pop music will never be low brow. “(Gaga) It is true and pop music doesn’t tell story, it is a story. This miraculous story not only entertains teenagers, it also encourage teenagers and educates teenagers.
