This is an article I'm working on.
I bet Alicia would like this. I bet after I post this she'll come back. :yes:
I know Dan will like this too.
An Observation about Black Music
Among the black and Puerto Rican communities, I have noticed that more and more songs are about love and romance. (And by black/Puerto Rican music, I do not mean "rap" or "hip hop," but music sung by black and Puerto Rican people). I don't mean songs about hooking up or animal like sex, but full-fledged, long-term love and romance - including songs about marriage.
The song that epitomizes this is "Let's Get married" by Jagged Edge. These are the lyrics:
"Meet me at the altar in your white dress
We ain't getting no younger, we might as well do it
... Let's just get married!"
This is sung to an undeniably charismatic beat (I wish I could let you hear it so you know what I am talking about). Indeed, when it came out, it was one of the top dance songs.
Another one of my favorites is by Thalia and Fat Joe called "I want you." The beginning lyrics, from Thalia are,
"What ... did I ... do to deserve such a man so special in my life?"
The entire song is about Thalia and Fat Joe describing what they like about each other, and that they only want one another. The lyrics go on, from Fat Joe (warning: slang ahead), "Only got eyes for her ... I don't want to be a player no more."
The video for this song is also memorable. It is the both of them singing to each other. Indeed, most memorable is, of course, the beautiful Thalia. But, although she is an incredibly beautiful woman with a great body, it is not egregious body parts that you remember about her. Most memorable is her big, bright smile, being flashed towards Fat Joe as she sings about him (Again, I wish you could see it).
There are others, including Puff Daddy singing that he "wants a wife at home," Snoop Dog singing a relatively romantic song towards one special girl in which he tells her she is "Beautiful," (yes, guys, despite feminist hysterics, women still like hearing this), and Wayne Wonder who describes a girl who "takes care of him like it's a duty."
These are not songs that I had to go searching for. All of these songs are popular and mainstream.
Now let's look at popular white music (again, by this I mean, songs sung by white people).
A popular song by Christina Aguilera out is "Can't hold us Down." The song announces that "This is for her girls all around the world." The entire song is about "female equality," and by female equality, they mean, mostly, a woman's right to be a whore and not be judged for it, in the same fashion as men supposedly can.
The video is particularly telling. The first scene is of Christina walking down a street, when a guy pinches her butt. She turns around and snaps back at him. As on-lookers see the fight going on, the women come out to support Christina and men come out to support the guy. It eventually turns into a male versus female fight, literally with women on one side and men on the other, spraying the hose at each other and trying to out do each other with dance moves (and I might add, as far as the dance competition went, the men won).
Other popular, young white music starts include Avril Lavigne, who in almost every video punches a guy, and Michelle Branch. I was quite proud of Michelle, when she did a song with Santana called, "The Game of Love," which exalts romantic love (One of my favorite songs to this day). But her most recent song, "Are You Happy Now?" is as angry as ever, and Michelle admits it is a "break up song." My heart sank when I heard it. I can't stand to listen to it on the radio.
So why is this happening? Those in the black and Puerto Rican communities are embracing love and romance, while those in the white community are dead set on gender war.
Well, it's quite simple to answer really. Those who have a vested interest in people adopting certain ideological viewpoints (namely: liberal) or voting a certain way (namely: Democrat) have no need to separate black women from black men or Puerto Rican women from Puerto Rican men. Black people vote Democrat at a solid 90%.
They do have a vested interest in dividing white women from white men. They might not be able to capture the white male vote, but they can grab the white women - so as long as they remain single.
I don't believe there is an agenda being pushed on the black and Puerto Rican communities in regards to them singing songs about love. I believe they are simply doing what men and women do when not influenced by corrupt leadership: they love each other. (I plan on doing research regarding the record companies producing these songs).
Here is another observation: the love songs in the black community were all sung predominantly by men. The angry, hateful songs in the white community were sung by women. Take from that observation what you will.
I believe that most of the gender warfare in the white community is not natural, but prodded from leaders. As proof of that, observe that places in which certain leaders don't need gender division - don't have gender division.
It could be argued that there is in fact a lot of gender division in the black community; indeed an embarrassing number of black children are born to single mother households. I have been told before, however, that this was a problem they inherited through slavery, in which families were frequently broken up. They were torn apart for quite some time, and the negative effects, unfortunately, still linger.
But I do not believe that black people themselves, by choice, want this. I have actually read from some black feminists that white feminists don't understand their problems. One black feminist I read argued that black women everywhere are worried about black men not marrying women or becoming fathers. White feminists, she said, in all their elitism, do not care about this.
Well, of course they don't. They're feminists. Their entire purpose and goal on earth is to divide men from women. All I can say to that young black feminist is: I understand.
Really, of all the places for gender healing and conservative values to be brought back, it is in minority communities. The fact that conservatives haven't capitalized on this is inexcusable.
Sex and music have always been and always will be united. The psychological effects that music has on people, including the messages of the song, is profound.
During the feminists 70s, a popular song that comes to mind is "I Will Survive," an anthem song for broken-hearted women everywhere, exalting, of course, the single life and rejecting men. (Interestingly enough, this song was originally meant to be a Christian gospel, but I digress). In the 80s, the Reagan years, love kind of came back, and the song that comes to mind for me is "Take my breath away," from the Top Gun soundtrack. Move on to the late 90s, and all I can really think about is manufactured pop and an explosion of single, angry young females. All these songs help to define each era.
Just imagine the difference it would make if music was more like it was pre-1960s liberal revolution. I was on a relatively long road trip a few weeks ago, and the song "Rock Around the Clock" came on. I was stunned by it. Imagine going to a dance or club with that kind of song on! It was so fun. And it wasn't fun in an explicitly sexual and crass way, as so many are today. It was fun in a fun way.
I think it's absurd to say people in these happy years weren't sexual. Yes, it is pretty apparent from their songs that sex was on their mind. They just ... were responsible about it.
Indeed, I think I'm going to do an experiment. Instead of playing songs at any given party which are crass, talk about animal-like sex, and reject all morals and standards with sex, I'm going to play happy, fun songs, like the ones from the 1950s or 1960s. My guess is instead of treating the opposite sex like a mere object, like both men and women do today in the "hook up" culture, they might actually look at, get to know, and be intimate with the opposite sex. Just a guess, of course.
Those in the black community are reminding us of something: long-term romantic love is an ideal. It is even better than any kind of crass, one night stand sex. I hope to hear more of it.
