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outspokenfan · 5 years

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So I was feeling nostalgic listening to some old school 90s rock and roll. Legendary rock and roll group Aerosmith was playing and I remember the first time I heard the song “Cryin” in my mother’s house. My mother would always call me and tell me my video was on.

I would sit there with the TV blasted singing it. I swore I would be the first female in the group, lol to sing with Steven Tyler. A girl can dream right, lol. Oh man if only one can go back in time…. but you can’t you can only can cherish the memories forever. I’m so grateful I was born in the era I was born in, Thank you God! Because music has truly changed my life!

I’ve always loved Aerosmith ever since I heard them sing “Walk This Way” with legendary Hip-hop group Run DMC. back in 1986. That collaboration between hip-hop and rock and roll was iconic and something you barely see with todays artist. Joe Perry the lead guitarist is a beast on that guitar. That look he gives into the camera at 2:07 in crying is lethal!!!

I miss the days when MTV and VH1 would play actual music videos. What happen to the music? This generation is missing out on knowing some really great artist from back in the day and those that are still relevant (if they haven’t retired), because they are being inundated with reality B.S. television. Theres no music, there’s no connection. People have this platform and this is what they choose to do with it.

Peoples emotions are being suppress. No one is feeling the love anymore. People are forgetting what love sounds like and the visual to go with it. Thats another thing that annoys me, lyrics that don’t match the video with todays artist. I can write-up a better story than what I see with todays artist videos. It may be visually appealing but I don’t see what you’re singing about?😐

There are artist out there that I love them as artist, but they are not very sensual when it comes to their videos. They do too much and I’m left feeling like what happen to the visual in my head? You can’t even turn on the television or radio and hear a real love song anymore. What about some good rock roll bands? The award shows used to have real live bands. Artist would sound the same as they did in their videos now they lip-sync and sound horrible live.

My heart and spirit will always be stuck in THE 80s and 90’s. You gotta admit the 90’s was the best era of music. You had to know how to sing. You were invested in the artist not their personal life or just a song. There was no drama. You couldn’t turn on the radio or television in the 90s without hearing a love song. Now you don’t even really have to know how to sing or sing about anything with substance.

Now you can mumble your way over a tight beat and people will get hooked. Now it’s ok to be illiterate in the music industry. Reading and writing is not required anymore. I’m sorry but that is not music, you can’t pay me to listen to trap rap music. But this is what they are putting into our youths minds and some adults are following suit too. You can sing about drugs and killing somebody and as long as you put it over a tight beat, It will soar to the top of the charts.

Women didn’t have to be naked, now everybody is naked, everything is about sex and lust and cheating and how many women you have and all of your material possessions and this is what the youth idolizes and they want to be about that life. They want to turn up as they say. I don’t think artist realize the power they have over their fans and how their music influences them, more on that later… But the 90s had some of the best rock and roll songs.

Which brings me to something else I wanted to discuss….

Every time I listen to rock roll music or anything that’s not considered “Urban Music” people always give me weird looks. Trying to figure out where I’m from and where I grew up at. I’m a music lover. To me music knows no color. When I listen to an artist and if I’m feeling them. Their race, color or gender is the last thing that’s on my mind. It never even crosses my mind. But apparently it crosses others people. But I listen to everything. My music collection is huge mostly from CDs I downloaded. Remember those?

It all depends on my mood. One minute I might be in the mood to listen to Michael Jackson, Jodeci, Chris Brown, Boys to Men, Jeffrey Osborne, Tupac next you might hear me listen to Selena, Marc Anthony, IL Divo, Placido Domingo, Andrea Bocelli or Josh Groban. Throw in some Aerosmith, Eddie Van Halen, Guns N’ Roses, Bret Michaels, Deep Blue Something, UB40, Faith Hill, Shania Twain, Sara McLachlan, Sophie B. Hawkins, Wilson Philips, some jazz, some opera, some classical…. Who knows, LOL. Music is music. Does it really matter where I’m from or my ethnicity? No!

How can the one thing that unites us, which is music, which is a gift from God divide us in so many ways?

When it comes to music people are so close minded. I was exposed to different genres of music when my family and I moved to a different borough of Staten Island and we had cable. I also had music class something I didn’t have when we lived in the south Bronx. All I heard was oldies and hip hop and R&B but that’s the thing about moving and being in a different environment. Some people are never exposed to things or music because they stay where they are or its not being played in their home. But this is the age of technology and streaming services you can listen to all kinds of music if you’re open to it.

In 2008 one of my coworkers was about to turn off her radio and put it on a more urban station, because she thought that’s what I wanted to listen to (or all people of color, lol) and I stopped her and I said leave that on I like that song, LOL. She was so surprised that I liked all the artist that she liked. They had a hot list playing that day with “The Smashing Pumpkins, Lenny Kravitz, Aerosmith, Sound Garden, Third Eye Blind, Gin Blossoms, Garbage, Nirvana and many more. It was hot!!!

She told me her best friend which was African-American didn’t listen to white music. Excuse me… I said WTF is white music?? A caucasian guy I went out with said he never met a black woman that like rock and roll. He was shock too! As much as some people claim they are not racist when it comes to certain things, they prove that they are. I know people who don’t listen to music because it’s not by a black artist. I’m being sarcastic here… but I think some African-American people forget that black people sing rock and roll and country music too.

Let’s not forget about Prince, Lenny, Jimi Hendrix, Fishbone and many others. We’re all entitled to our own music taste but not liking an artist because of their skin color is ludicrous. Sorry I can’t be friends with people who think that way. Which means I would have to censor my music taste and I’m not doing that. I bond with people over music. Music is everything to me and it knows no color. With artist like Mickey Guyton singing country music as a woman of color. I couldn’t be anymore proud!

As much as I love R&B and latin music, I think Its great when I see women of color breaking into other genres of music where we are not heavy populated. I wish more artist of color would sing other types of music. It can truly bring us together instead of dividing us. Hopefully the world will get back to real music and real music videos. I have hope that radio and television will return back to its organic roots. Until then here’s a trip down memory lane!

Whats your favorite rock and roll group from the 80s and 90s?

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Flashback: When Music Channels Played Actual Music So I was feeling nostalgic listening to some old school 90s rock and roll. Legendary rock and roll group…

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