It seems that i have been neglecting my civic duty to blog at least a couple times a week. I WOULD like to make the excuse that its because I just strted a new job and I "haven't had the time" but I'd be lying both to you...My public. And to myself. So because of this I'm sure this will be an extremely long blog because I debated doing the usual structured blog about one sole subject. Well...I feel in a rambling mood.
A question? Do we like older songs because of the memory of them? Or because we just actually like them? While listening to my ipod on my computer I saw a link on itune's of "songs from the 90's" and me having experienced most of my waking years during that time, I was furiously clicking reliving those songs. And I absolutely loved like 90% of them. If i did that for now... I'm pretty sure i would listen to maybe 10 of the 100 (exaggeration? it really might not be). Having said that when listening to those songs they also brought memories to me like "Back that thang up" (i know...not 90's but early 2000's) brings back memories of my beginnings freakin every girl in sight at the Hammond High freak-a-thon...I mean Back to School dance. If anyone has ever taken psychology you would be familiar with Pavlov and his dogs. Basically dude rang a bell and that was a cue that it was time for the dogs to eat. Then after he took away the food after a few sessions the dogs would still salivate for the food when the bell was hit. You may feel free to make whatever connections to me in high school (ie. freaking girls, dogs, salivating/drooling, "food") you would like.
What Im saying is that these are good memories. BUT... My musical tastes have without a doubt changed and grown from those times. I actually LIKED "country grammer" when it first came out. There is next to zero chance i like ANY nelly song that comes out now. Not to mention some random booty shakin song. (Although...in my defense the radio was not nearly as saturated with booty songs as it is not) Maybe one day i'll do a blog on my musical evolution.
Anyway... Other songs on the list brought back connotations to whatever lil girl I had a silent crush on at the time, a road trip my family took, random argument I had with my big sister or friend. So the question I pose is...Was music really better when I was younger (90's) then now? No...i'm not talking about Nelly...Although... it WAS "different". Were was the days of the shiny suit revolution (Puff Daddy and the Family) better than the current days of Snappin rap of all sorts and whatever 50 cent tells us to listen to? Or forget rap...How about Is Chris Brown singing "gimmie that" and krumpin' better than R. Kelly and...ANY song he did in the 90's? I think i know the answer to this... But I like to check myself as a person every so often just to make sure I don't end up like Tom Cruise saying there's no such thing as depression.
On the new job.... Its something i've expierenced once before when I was a trainer for the track team... But its a really different feeling to work with other Black people. After just leaving a job in which i got along with everyone tremendously and really had a lot of fun there is nothing like being around a group of Black people to make you feel immiedetly comfortable. Having spent most of my life around white people I'm more then comfortable talking to, chillin with, just general being around white people, but it still amazes me how I can IMMIEDETELY be comfortable talking to someone with skin the same color as mine. Its not big things that anybody other then the people involved would see or notice, but little things like, a incredibly random reference to the Steve Harvey show (seriously... you can't tell me most white people even knew there WAS a steve harvey show not to mention the middle name of Cedric (the entertainer) wife. In the long run I might still end up hating them. But on a kinda quasi (but not quite) shallow level it really makes a difference.
I kind of wonder whether its the same for white folks sometimes. Whether they have a big feeling of comfortablity while around other white folks instead of those of other pesky races. Then of course as soon as I typed that statement and realized that although i'm sure that is of course the case on some level. White people are ALWAYS around other caucasians. Its one reason why so many do feel uncomfortable around alot of Black people or just minorities in general. As a Black person, an experience around alot of Black people especially in a work enviornement is a unique experience and situation (even if the job IS in chocolate city).
Out of every "black/racial" themed book I've read, for some reason the book that hit the "black experience" on the head the most was a book by W.E.B. Dubois where he described what was essentially a dichotomy (duality or two-facedness) of being a Black person. Its the kind of duality that in one interview I can engender myself to a boss by telling a story of a white girl trying to screw me out of a project for debatedly racial reasons then being intimidated when confronted. But then in another interview immiedetely connect with the interviwer over Maxim and Angelina Joli. (Yes...i realize those are all random intervew subjects...What can i say, i have amazing interview skills)
The point is that both parts are still me, i'm not fakin', posing or pretending, just identifying with the person i'm talking to. There is no doubt in my mind that it is easier to find ways identify with another black person but that's not to say you can't and won't more with a white person. But the difference between me, as a black person, and a white person is that I DO have to have these different parts to me. But one side (guess which side) has to lay dormant most of the time . Not having that side be "dormant" where I spend most of my lighted hours makes a big difference in the comfortability of my everyday life.
And once again...I became bored with my own writing so whatever i was thinking about saying earlier when i first started typing....I forgot either because Flavor of Love came on or became distracted by aim conversation... Oh well
A question? Do we like older songs because of the memory of them? Or because we just actually like them? While listening to my ipod on my computer I saw a link on itune's of "songs from the 90's" and me having experienced most of my waking years during that time, I was furiously clicking reliving those songs. And I absolutely loved like 90% of them. If i did that for now... I'm pretty sure i would listen to maybe 10 of the 100 (exaggeration? it really might not be). Having said that when listening to those songs they also brought memories to me like "Back that thang up" (i know...not 90's but early 2000's) brings back memories of my beginnings freakin every girl in sight at the Hammond High freak-a-thon...I mean Back to School dance. If anyone has ever taken psychology you would be familiar with Pavlov and his dogs. Basically dude rang a bell and that was a cue that it was time for the dogs to eat. Then after he took away the food after a few sessions the dogs would still salivate for the food when the bell was hit. You may feel free to make whatever connections to me in high school (ie. freaking girls, dogs, salivating/drooling, "food") you would like.
What Im saying is that these are good memories. BUT... My musical tastes have without a doubt changed and grown from those times. I actually LIKED "country grammer" when it first came out. There is next to zero chance i like ANY nelly song that comes out now. Not to mention some random booty shakin song. (Although...in my defense the radio was not nearly as saturated with booty songs as it is not) Maybe one day i'll do a blog on my musical evolution.
Anyway... Other songs on the list brought back connotations to whatever lil girl I had a silent crush on at the time, a road trip my family took, random argument I had with my big sister or friend. So the question I pose is...Was music really better when I was younger (90's) then now? No...i'm not talking about Nelly...Although... it WAS "different". Were was the days of the shiny suit revolution (Puff Daddy and the Family) better than the current days of Snappin rap of all sorts and whatever 50 cent tells us to listen to? Or forget rap...How about Is Chris Brown singing "gimmie that" and krumpin' better than R. Kelly and...ANY song he did in the 90's? I think i know the answer to this... But I like to check myself as a person every so often just to make sure I don't end up like Tom Cruise saying there's no such thing as depression.
On the new job.... Its something i've expierenced once before when I was a trainer for the track team... But its a really different feeling to work with other Black people. After just leaving a job in which i got along with everyone tremendously and really had a lot of fun there is nothing like being around a group of Black people to make you feel immiedetly comfortable. Having spent most of my life around white people I'm more then comfortable talking to, chillin with, just general being around white people, but it still amazes me how I can IMMIEDETELY be comfortable talking to someone with skin the same color as mine. Its not big things that anybody other then the people involved would see or notice, but little things like, a incredibly random reference to the Steve Harvey show (seriously... you can't tell me most white people even knew there WAS a steve harvey show not to mention the middle name of Cedric (the entertainer) wife. In the long run I might still end up hating them. But on a kinda quasi (but not quite) shallow level it really makes a difference.
I kind of wonder whether its the same for white folks sometimes. Whether they have a big feeling of comfortablity while around other white folks instead of those of other pesky races. Then of course as soon as I typed that statement and realized that although i'm sure that is of course the case on some level. White people are ALWAYS around other caucasians. Its one reason why so many do feel uncomfortable around alot of Black people or just minorities in general. As a Black person, an experience around alot of Black people especially in a work enviornement is a unique experience and situation (even if the job IS in chocolate city).
Out of every "black/racial" themed book I've read, for some reason the book that hit the "black experience" on the head the most was a book by W.E.B. Dubois where he described what was essentially a dichotomy (duality or two-facedness) of being a Black person. Its the kind of duality that in one interview I can engender myself to a boss by telling a story of a white girl trying to screw me out of a project for debatedly racial reasons then being intimidated when confronted. But then in another interview immiedetely connect with the interviwer over Maxim and Angelina Joli. (Yes...i realize those are all random intervew subjects...What can i say, i have amazing interview skills)
The point is that both parts are still me, i'm not fakin', posing or pretending, just identifying with the person i'm talking to. There is no doubt in my mind that it is easier to find ways identify with another black person but that's not to say you can't and won't more with a white person. But the difference between me, as a black person, and a white person is that I DO have to have these different parts to me. But one side (guess which side) has to lay dormant most of the time . Not having that side be "dormant" where I spend most of my lighted hours makes a big difference in the comfortability of my everyday life.
And once again...I became bored with my own writing so whatever i was thinking about saying earlier when i first started typing....I forgot either because Flavor of Love came on or became distracted by aim conversation... Oh well
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