First Blog Assignment : Pleasure and Community Servies

Community Service

One - U2

Black or White - Michael Jackson

Whats Going On - Marvin Gaye

Lean on Me - Bill Withers

Changes - Tupac Shakur

Pleasure

  

You Make My Dreams Come True - Hall and Oates

Cant Get Enough of Your Love - Barry White

You my best friend - Queen

Im In Love With My Car - Queen

Bernadette - Four Tops

I felt as if the community service aspect was more appealing based off the sole face that writing songs about pleasure are one of the first emotions that come to mind. Community Service is about helping others than your own self, and to have a certain degree of selflessness is something commendable, even though some artists just do it to gain a following from the fan base. Pleasure, as I addressed before, is easier because love or hate songs, the easiest way to vent your emotions is through writing, and if you have the talent to turn that into a song, it could be more appealing to yourself and also easily appealing to the fans. Emotions is one of the very first things many listeners, for lack of a batter term, listen for because even though it may not help out your situation, you can relate to someone through an artist's music. I found that looking through the music that I have, in the pleasure area, there was a lot of writing going on in the past few decades that hone in on love and romance, Barry White is notorious for this. Queen, I saw after further observation, has a lot of songs about pleasure but in a different and comical way, with “I'm In Love With My Car”. I never turned towards Queen for the pleasure aspect because their music, to me, has a lot of power and messages behind it, alongside with the internal struggle of Freddie Mercury and his orientation at that time. With analysis of the music alongside with the four Hindu Themes, I would have to say that pleasure can fall more into this category because even though music may have pleasure within it, some spirituality does come out and the basis of this theme hits right at home with American pop music. Community Service was a lot harder for me to line up because times have changed and American pop music is Western thinking, but in a stretch I could find some similarities. I feel as if the true nature of the Hindu theme of community service can not be compared to American pop music, but ones who follow in Hindu's footsteps are not generally Top-40 material.