Response to Soul Music is Dead

I do agree that soul music is dead. But I think that today’s artists are creating a new form of music, I’m not sure what it’s called. The listeners of today’s music are probably going to feel the same way when they have children and their children listen to a different form of music. That is what happens…time passes and things change! Music is a trend so I feel like it is supposed to change with the time. Soul music fit the time frame that it was in. It’s now 2009 and the things that were important then have changed and artists need to talk about things in their music that deal with current issues. It doesn’t necessarily mean that “soul music” is actually better than the music that is out now. It’s all opinion. I like some old school soul songs and I also like today’s music. “Soul music” is so big because it is classic. But one day this music will be classics and people my age will be saying that our genre is dead just as Phil Boogie and Randy Bandit are saying.
Well-written songs from the soul era are still played today and I think that songs that are made in recent years will also be played as long as it has wide range. I do believe that artists today are packaged but it’s like Phil Boogie said BUSINESS follows show…and bills have to be paid. And we can’t totally blame the artist because they do have stylists and public relations people who are working with them to make them these big show packages. But all in all I think the artist is giving the public exactly what it wants them to give it. If the world continue to supports the artist and buy the “package” that they portray then it would only make sense that they continue to do it.