Has American rock music created a negative affect in societies worldwide?

Yes

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by M Pereira

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Has American rock music created a negative affect in societies worldwide? Well let us see.

Rock music started with country singer Elvis Presley who rocked the world from the 1950's the 1970's. He generally appeared to be the nice kind of country guy, who grew up in a small place, and was hand picked for big dreams. However he did roll the ball that fashioned the behaviours of most invented rock bands since. He did drugs, he stayed up until the late hours of the morning, he drank alcohol, he snorted cocaine, and he ate heaps of food in order to get that growing body strong and stage-worthy. He liked to enact in rowdy behaviour, he crossed his lines in order to freely spend his self-made millions, and he even had secret affairs that made him one of the hottest hunks in the music market. He was the entertainer that crossed all lines in his performance, and accompanied his loud deep-toned singing with moves that made women blush crimson, that made girls squeal, and made television producers screen his camera angles until they were primarily focused on the face. He could bang on a guitar, belt out any kind of tune, and make a piano work under his moving fingers this made him a somewhat talented musician that was capable of crossing avenues. What Elvis did not pick up was vegetarianism - something that did not actually become in fashion until the 1970's 1980's.

At the time controversy about his on-stage moves crowded his intentions and marked him out as a rude, crude, hooligan. The marking of the controversy was supposed to make his image shade, and cause red to appear on his hands (a mark of disgraceful tainting). However what it did was make the singer ever more alluring, and he was able to create a revolution in the working of society.

Suddenly youngsters wanted to dress a little punk, they wanted to wear pink shirts and drive pink cars, they wanted to sweet talk while being bad news, they wanted to appear homely while making plans too become rough streetwalkers, they wanted to become a king of the social rink.

This in itself was bad news. But this was just the beginning. His music was crass and loud when it turned off from being smooth and deep, and the music arena was swept of its lullabies in order to follow in suit.

The Beatles were another big band that blew the world apart. They came from England and were embraced by the public as soon as they started to sell albums. They also had an image that was clean and unclean; however they did it while standing as robots and looking like school teenagers. Yes, they appeared as though they were the cleanest of the clean, but off stage they were also addicted to anything under the word 'drugs'. Their hippie image made a new revolution, and all of the world's manners just dropped as a result. No one wanted to even look around if they were not into the moving of a world that threw all care of hygiene, and fashion sense out of the window. It was all about 'drugs, drugs, drugs!' And the world turned into one of hypnosis, that could not be woken up.

The lead singer of Led Zeppelin was a tall rocker who created bumps in the limelight. He had a more or less clean image, that was helped by a few drinks, a few pills, and a little rocking good tunes which embrace a tone that was part sarcastic, part angered, and had just enough sincerity in order to make a song of emotional worth. This lifted the rock scene, and picked up the free-love scene, as the singer tried to create a sexed up image while appearing a little aloof of it. This became quite a hit for a small while, but not nearly as big a hit as the next generation of rock.

Guns N Roses was another big hit which combined a lot of musicality of songs that were harsh as well as generally soft. They created a lullaby out of a rose and then belted a rock tune that would allure those who had altered their tastes to rock. They could belt out a rock sound that was hard on the brain, but had enough musicality to digest as commendable song. They had the lyrics that could prove to be meaningful, and full of false impressions. They had the punk to stand out from the pack of rock artists, and the rock to make other rock artists hit the hay. They wore their feeling trashed image on stage as well as on camera, and were one of the first bands that pointed to psychological disorders in both themselves and the communities around them. They made honesty in music a vogue, and made a personal point to a generation who was still getting over their drugs and disco moves (and waking up with hangovers and old feelings). You could be old and live young, you could be young and feel old, you could have a mental disorder and be all right, you could live like you remember and know everything you are will be forgiven because it will be forgotten.

What rock stars have taught the public:

If you have something to say scream it out.

If you want to be popular stand out.

If you want to be an adult beat to beat the crowd.

If you want to be rich make sure you join a band.

If you want girls be a rock star.

If you want to have all the drugs be a rock star.

If you want to enjoy your life and live young, fast, and hard be a rock star.

If you want to live on the edge be the most hated rock star (the lead singer).

If you want to edge the revolution follow the rock star.

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