James Taylor

My mom has always played James Taylor in her car or at home, but I never really realized how much I liked him until now. He has a really gentle way of singing, but his songs sound amazing and his lyrics are really deep. Unlike most musicians who have become really famous he has kept a pretty low profile and has never really gotten into much trouble. My favorite thing about his music is how he mixes his voice with this guitar. It's done in a way that I have never heard from any other musician in the past. I really like his music and I will continue to listen to it in the future.

Michael Jackson Album

I heard a little bit of the new Michael Jackson album, and I thought that it was pretty good. I think that T.I. did a good job of keeping Michael Jackson's original songs but also altering them in the studio. This album didn't really sound like a full-fledged Michael Jackson production in terms of scale ad variety, but it was pretty decent, and I'm sure it brought in a lot of revenue for the producers. It was very sad that he died so young, because he could still be making amazing albums today.

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

I did not like the second Fugees album that we listened to. It might have been because of the classroom skits at the beginning of each song, but I think it was mainly because of the flow of the album. While the first album we listened to was pretty fast-paced, this album was slower and didn't move as fast as the other one. Sometimes I felt that the lyrics did not fit well with the beat, and were to long or didn't make sense in the context of the song. I did like the song Zion though. I thought that the singing in Zion, particularly the very high note at the end of the song was very good.

First Fugee Album

I really liked the first Fugee album that we listened to. The three harmonies and musicians coming together sounded very interesting. Likewise the lyrics were very entertaining, and I liked following them. They were intelligent and rhymed very well with themselves and the beat. I liked the music video we watched of one of their songs, as it combined a Caribbean sound with snapshots of the Caribbean islands. All in all I found the album to be very entertaining and fun to listen to.

Green Day

I never really liked Green Day when they were really popular, but I think that I like them better now. They always seemed to have a metal feel that I didn't really like, but now I guess I appreciate it more now since we watched that documentary in class. They seemed like really cool average people, which I really didn't expect from them. They were talented musicians who didn't just gloat in their own fame, but also were willing to interact with others.

Green Day Play

The Green Day play seemed pretty cool. It was definitely not the typical Broadway play but I still liked it just the same. It was really action packed and seemed to reflect the band's wishes as well as the ideas of the director. I was surprised by the band's support of the play because most of the time artists or authors are not content with movies or plays written about their works. Billie Joe Holliday was really cool and talented. I thought that it was awesome how he played one of the parts in the actual play and did a good job at it too.

Music dying out

I don't think that playing music will ever die out, so long as humans remain on this earth.Music probably precedes many languages and cultures, and so I don't see it dying out. Although some people might think that electronic music will take the place of actually creating music, there are still billions of people around the world who make music will instruments everyday, and although that number is dwindling I don't think that making music could ever cease to exist.