Article - Music, rebellion, and generations: Mamatay ka sa ... ingay?

Music, rebellion, and generations: Mamatay ka sa ... ingay?

Being a music lover, I’ve held the idea or a long time that I could take just about any song and appreciate something in it. Be it pop, metal, rock, jazz, or blues, I figure that there must have been something in it that made its writers want to write it, some sort of truth.

That was, until, I have to say it, I heard songs from Justin Bieber. And Rihanna. And, recently, Daniel Padilla. Now, I’d like to make the qualifier here: I don’t mind the singers themselves, I mean, hey, they’re making more money than I am, that’s for sure. But the songs! Why would anyone want to listen to those songs?

And that was when it hit me: I’m the older generation now.

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