Bible College Students Agree
Today’s Music Doesn’t
MotivateJChir Youth To
By reresa Simmons
Post Managing Editor
Grandmother to great -
grandson: “You don’t
dance or listen to reels (se
cular music) do you?”
Four year old great grand
mother: “Good.” a
^5 Students at a certain'
Bible college in Charlotte
laugh when the dean men
tions MTV - they don’t want
- to look at it anyway.
_And then there are those
like James Brooks who
feels that instead of the
style of R&B music getting
'' better it’s getting worse. "I
think disco messed up the
black music,” Brooks pro
claimed. “Today there are
simple lyrics, simple beats
and that make for simple
people.”
“Much of today’s music
is the same - it preaches
-about partying and sex
it doesn’t motivate our
youtlrto think/’ -
People like the grand
mother above and Brooks
would like to place R&B,
soul music, as well as MTV
videos in one sack and give
it a squash.
According to Don Cody,
morning air personaility
and member of radio sta
tion WGIV Music Com
mittee, recent research by
the station found that
Gospel music is becoming
more and more popular
among the population of
Charlotte.
“WGIV’s research shows
that a lot of people love
Gospel," Cody pointed out.
“WGIV has planned a
change in format. Monday
through Friday from 9 a.m.
until noon and Monday
through Thursday from 8
a.m. until midnight Gospel
will be featured with Cur
tis Parker as host. The
programs will be entitled
“The Old Ship of Zion.” -
There are some disc
Kurtis Blow
.Bad medicine?
jockeys in Charlotte,
however, who feel that the
negative virtues of today’s
secular music is being
overrated. “There has al
ways been the positive and
negative in music,”
Marsha Burton of wciv
commented, ‘‘there are
songs with very bad moral
messages but children will
listen to music for the
tunes. They aren’t as in
terested in the words as
parents are.” _
Music, according to Bur
ton, has decreased in
quality in the five to 10
years. “Our music is not
basic black music any
more. The music is getting
away from being black and
crossing over with less
quality. Musicians are
trying for white audiences
now and losing the soul and
feeling of music."
But is it time for music to
be banned? "No," accord
ing to Ms. Burton.
Even the lyrics of little
moral value Ms. Burton
concludes children’s home
training should prepare
them and they will not be
swayed by the words.
“Parents should teach
their children what is right
and wrong. If children are
Skip Morphy
.Music is positive
raised correctly they can
listen to anything. Knowing
what is right they will not
be influenced. Just because
a song says to do some
thing doesn’t mean they,
have to do it.”
_The advantage of today’s
music, according to Ms.
Burton, is its quality to
allow one to escape reality.
‘‘Music makes you forget
about your problems.*’
She suggested that the
group D Train has many
positive songs and that
even Prince’s “1999’’ has
messages of religious sig
nificance.
Skip Murphy, Opera
tions Manager of WPEG
radio station feels that
there are some positive
aspects of today’s soul and
ft&B music. “Some dis
play the changing attitudes"
of society and show how
drugs, the fast life, pro
stitution, basing cocaine
and walking the streets and
killing are bad."
Murphy cites three rap
ping songs by Kurtis Blow
from "Eight Million
Stories” and "30 Days" by
Run D-MC as giving po
sitive messages to the
youth. “The lyrics tell
about how hard life is in the
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ghetto, it talks about all the
negative effects of street
life and the fact that youth
need to either get away
from it or stay away from
it." 'v* v. ;
- -Many youth today are.
listening to the songs by
musicianewho mention
sex. Murphy feels that
today’s youth have enough
sense to say "I know I’m
not, so I won**.”
to-do about the negative
effects of music. Kids
know right from wrong.
They are warned and
they know."
Cody of WGIV feels that
the quality of music has
increased over the years.
He compliments the im
proved musical techniques
and advances and even the
cross over of musicians
from one musical category
to the next.
tyrics-like ‘Tm geSnjno-'
give it to you just the way
you like it?’ can be taken
any way you like it, ac
cording to Cody. "It de
pends on the frame of
mind.”
Cody feels that through
all music played over the
air waves of WGIY, the
station spreads sunshine to
the Queen City. "WGIV is
setting a positive image in
Charlotte,” Cody stated.
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