The Sounds of Music

My human is listening to 90’s music.  What was that anyway?  The 90’s?

Well, according to the sounds coming through the speakers in my room, near my pond, daily, I am guestimating that the 90’s must have been a significant place for my human.  Grungie - that’s what they called it.  I don’t quite understand the label, but the music is jammin’!

So what were the nineties and how do they compare to my own generation?  I am merely a child of the wilderness and music is an art unknown to my species outside of being domesticated [pets].  Typically, I might listen to the sounds of birds chirping and bugs buzzing… perhaps the fish plopping at the surface of the water nearby or the sweet drizzling trickle of the fresh water in the stream where I may live.  

But instead, I live with my human.  She is awesome.  She listens to all the sounds of the pond as well as her own taste in humanified tunes.

I imagine after I’ve lived for several decades, music may play an integral part in my being as well.  Perhaps I will enjoy it when the human replays music from this, the post millennial era.

Consider this - maybe Taylor Swift isn’t just a trending star… I know I will be listening to her songs for decades.  There are so many to list, but since she popped off my skull we’ll use her as a prime example of sounds that will last throughout generations.  

According to Michael Campbell’s research in ‘Music’ a collegiate text -

“A thousand years from now, historians with access to today’s artifacts will be able to reconstruct musical life in our time with considerable precision and in excruciating detail.”

This in comparison to the opposing issue in researching music of the first centuries in time whereas “there is almost no documentary evidence of music being made [in Europe] around the year 1000.”  -- this also according to Michael Campbell’s research.

It seems as though music is transforming along the way - whereupon the differential of genre is quite a spectacular similarity these days.  

The sounds of music are in a transformative process.  Much like the human race.  Believe me, my ancestors have been around a lot longer than you all, humanoids.  Music has become more so something which one follows rather than what one may simply listen to.  

Back to Taylor Swift, her music alone has made great strides for those that wish to cross genre boundaries.  It was for this reason that she denoted her music from a very popular music application in which she stated that musicians’ art should be respected, and paid for!  While I am only a reptile and therefore have no reason for debate to this issue - I am merely mentioning this in relation to the importance of respecting musical talent, just as one may respect written talent, or the skills of an actor that performs action sets.  

Musicians are talented folks.  Their genius deserves great accolades.  

This is a spiritual concept too you know... The first styles of historically recorded music date back to religious circles - primitive folks, like myself.  

If I could make noise (turtles do not), I would be singing all the time.  

So take this information and do with it what you will… Just remember one thing - Music is life --- and the beat goes on.