Music today

Have you noticed that old people complain about music, or how people call one group of things music, and not another? For instance, the "battle" between rock and rap. Why is it that people are so specific about the music they like, what music is and what it isn't? Well, that is something we are going to explore in this post.

First off all, one must understand the emotional connection people have with music. Songs that were playing during your first date, your first kiss, an emotional moment in your life? To understand this, we must first understand the connection people make between truth and expirience.

When you learn something, or expirience something, it is ground into your neurons. The pathways that helped with that behavior become stronger. When you do something alot, it is literally reinforced in your brain by neural connections. That is why it is hard to do something you haven't done in a while. The connections for it literally are not there.

So when something happens to you, something big, it is ground into your brain with the firing of all those synapses. You hear the music, your brain instantly calls up that expirience to your head. You equate that expirience with that emotion/feeling.

Also, when you get older, your body is starting to decay or wind down. Your ears are more sensative to certain frequencies that they were not tuned to when you were a kid. So that is why older people complain about loadness. I garentee if you frequency block those frequencies, they would be fine with it.

So because the older songs evoke memories and they do not violate certain frequencies, that is why older people like older music. I think that when my generation becomes grandparents, we will like our dubstep and south korean rap. It is just part of natural development.

So the next time one says its too loud, or that music today isn't like the music back then, blow their mind and tell them how the brain works. Show them that is not really a difference in music, it is just brain chemistry.

Well, I'm off to listen to that devil music

Oppan Gangnam Style!