TGIF, Oh Wait....I Work Tomorrow

I still am fired up about this Friday thing...but I won't drag on about that today. Something I really want to talk about is something that has been on my mind for quite some time. Anyone that knows me, knows that I am openly obsessed with older music, anything ranging from the Beatles to The Who, to Bob Dylan, and Creedence Clearwater. They have much more to say in their music. It's not all useless nonsense. So I did decide to listen to some music on Pandora that was "Today's Hits Radio", and was just repulsed by what I heard. Are "artists" really allowed to speak like that on the radio? 

I would call myself a free-thinking, still fighting for rights, feminist thinker. I believe in things that others really oppose me on. I find it hard living in the south, because people definitely don't have as open of a view as I do. I think going to Art School opened my mind up to a new way of thinking about things. So when I do listen to songs that call women, "Bitches, Ho's, and other such vulgar names" I don't get it. There is a certain part of my that is hypocritical here because I know as a teenager that I listened to this same kind of music, but now as I have begun to age, and raise my own daughter, I want her to know that it is not okay to be called those things. Men are not permitted to say such things to women, and it be okay. I don't think I have ever been so offended by what I was hearing on the radio. 

So I immediately changed my station to the Bob Dylan station, where artists like Elton John, Paul McCartney, The Beatles, and Bill Withers plays. Call me old school, but I just prefer to listen to music that was written with a meaning behind it. 

I know, everyone's thinking, "Bethany, what the heck does this have to do with it being "not Friday, or even fitness". And give me time to explain. So I used to listen to these stations to work out to, because they are up beat and have a faster pace for me to work out to. And I realized that I would get so frustrated from what I was listening to, that my workout wasn't even working well for me, because I was so focused on this "garbage" being fed into my brain. So after some internet research and some soul searching, I am now moving to classical music or meditation music while working out. No more words. Just sounds to move me. I hope this makes sense, and I hope you consider the same. Music today, sounds like noise to me, and it's not the noise I want to listen to. 

So next time you go to put on today's hits, look into something new. If I hadn't listened to something new, I wouldn't have found out how happy I was with older music, that had lyrics that meant something.

Have a good day, and switch your stations today!