It's finals week.
I find it pretty amusing how peoples' music taste changes as they grow older. Everyone gets exposed to different genres and important artists by the type of shows they watch, who they hang out with, or even parental influences. I started out listening to my dad's old cassettes. He would be blasting Santana riffs on the stereo and my mom would be playing Beatles songs that were being covered in Spanish. Eventually, listening to the radio was 'cool' in grammar school and coming home from school to watch music videos on MTV was the thing to do. Well at least for me. Music just kind of consumed my life. I believed I was going to be record producer and follow in the footsteps of famous producers such as Brian Eno or Rick Rubin. As I entered high school, I started to question the pros and cons of entering the music business. On one hand, music was still a huge part of my life. I was still going to a lot shows and discovering new bands that seemed to blow my mind with every song I listened. The passion was still there. On the other hand, I began to weigh the cons as well. Going into the music business was becoming more tricky. People had to become extremely lucky and very passionate to produce. The music business is changing very rapidly with piracy issues and legal matters. It was not until Radiohead released "In Rainbows" back in 2007 when I saw where the music industry was headed. It just changed my perspective on the music business as crazy as that might sound. The album essentially gave people the choice to pay whatever they wanted to shell out. I felt as though other bands should follow a format where they give fans a choice on the payment of the music they put out. Bands should get compensated by tours, merchandise, etc. All of these legal contracts to major labels seemed like bs to me. I was trying to become something I suddenly disliked. So here I am now, less than two weeks away from getting an Associate's Degree; my Bachelor's will focus with a major in Economics and minor in Communications. Music will always be considered a universal language for me. Just another aspect that will make me a well-rounded person.
Broken Social Scene - Texico Bitches
