Saturday, March 10, 2007

Music Videos and its influence

Nowadays, music videos are kind of the biggest influence on the youth and society as a whole. One thing for sure, is that it widened people's horizens and opened up their minds to things that were never acceptable before. For example, in the early 90's, very few Arab singers could dare and shoot a video like "Haifa Wehbi's" videos with temptations that goes to this extent. Today, people seem to accept, or atleast ignore it, with out dealing with it in an extreme way. On the other hand, I do not think music videos or even the music industry should target or influence the politics and society; music was made to be for pleasure and entertainment not to create a political party that contradicts with people's traditions and values. Afterall, we all want to enjoy a song with out anyone coming up to us and argue about it, music should be a voice for love and peace more than it should a voice of challenge and temptations; however, unfortunetly it does influence and it does create many problems in some places of the world, you can not deny the fact that many extremists deal with this as one of the main issues the Arab countries face, while in fact, we should turn our heads to much more important issues that affect our society in a more negative way than the music industry as whole does.

2 comments:

Rashed said...

I was as shocked as you are. Trust me, this is just the beginning. As long as issues are offered in a mass media tool, people will thing that it is fine to be like that. Considering what I have mentioned in my post, this is just the beginning of things happening which violate our ethics and regulations.

taif alamiri said...

I totally agree with you Bana that music is for love and peace not for challenge and money. People should argu about other issues that really affects our society more than the Music industry.