Analysis Of Free, Single, And Disengaged By John Corbett
In the Essay, Free, Single, and Disengaged: Listening Pleasure and the Popular Music Object, John Corbett sought to explain how a “custom-fit straight jacket” is prison for our minds. Like the matrix! A straight jacket is a common article of clothing that is used in psychiatric metal wards and prisons to prevent mentally ill people from causing harm to themselves or others. In a broad sense it isolates the person for others. In relation to music, its clear Corbett wanted to confirm about the music industry forcing people to wear these jackets when they listen to music. The musical consumer for lack of better words “listener” really doesn’t have much choice. The listener is in love with their music, and they usually don’t listen to other kinds
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This depicts a strait jacket worn by the musical consumer. Courbett further supports this idea of custom fit straight jacket by saying in the excerpt “the prisoner who loves his cell because he has been left with nothing else to love.” (Corbett 80) That certainly embodies the mass of music and media today. What they like, is all they have.
The notion that popular music is created by the elites to control us is quite controversial. I do however concur with this notion. Today music is an industrial, mass produced, homogenized and controlled form of ertatintaiment. It seems to me that popular music is riddled with subliminal and prominent messages that are target toward the audible consumer.
The music video “Pitbull - Give Me Everything ft. Ne-Yom, Afro jack, Mayer” has the direct message to the listener. This message is the songs main chorus “Give me everything tonight, because we might not get tomorrow” This experemly poplar song in 2011-2013 promotes instant gravitation by the music title alone. Music was created to affect our emotions. That’s why we humans created it for celebrations long ago. This song specially make us want, and want immediately. It could be farther argued that such gratification fuels shopping, working, etc. Its impacts on society are extreme. In that, the way we can consume as a society and therefore the companies make more money, because we want it and we want
This depicts a strait jacket worn by the musical consumer. Courbett further supports this idea of custom fit straight jacket by saying in the excerpt “the prisoner who loves his cell because he has been left with nothing else to love.” (Corbett 80) That certainly embodies the mass of music and media today. What they like, is all they have.
The notion that popular music is created by the elites to control us is quite controversial. I do however concur with this notion. Today music is an industrial, mass produced, homogenized and controlled form of ertatintaiment. It seems to me that popular music is riddled with subliminal and prominent messages that are target toward the audible consumer.
The music video “Pitbull - Give Me Everything ft. Ne-Yom, Afro jack, Mayer” has the direct message to the listener. This message is the songs main chorus “Give me everything tonight, because we might not get tomorrow” This experemly poplar song in 2011-2013 promotes instant gravitation by the music title alone. Music was created to affect our emotions. That’s why we humans created it for celebrations long ago. This song specially make us want, and want immediately. It could be farther argued that such gratification fuels shopping, working, etc. Its impacts on society are extreme. In that, the way we can consume as a society and therefore the companies make more money, because we want it and we want