Is today's music turning society into a bunch of antisocial fist-pumpers with a lack of musical taste?

These guys are just sooo cool (yeaaah buddy)

Whenever I see someone out and about nowadays I never cease to be amazed by the fact that they are listening to music in one way or another, be it on an iPod, iPhone or stereo, with small iPod headphones or gigantic red Beats™. Music is taking over the world and I am becoming increasingly worried at how antisocial people are these days as a result of music becoming far more portable.

Every day when I take public transport I see numerous people bopping along to their tunes, desperately not trying to look at anyone else on the tram/train/bus. I find this quite phenomenal actually as it is interesting to think what this world would be like without portable music devices such as iPods.

Music has become a way for people to jump onto bandwagons such as Dubstep. Can the type of music one listens to impact on how they are perceived by other members of society?

It sure can, and does. For instance, if a guy listens to Justin Bieber he can practically kiss his manhood goodbye, but that’s fair enough because it’s just like listening to any other female artist, and we all know that males don’t listen to many female artists.

Wow, aren't you just so cool Dwight.

This pressure to listen to what others are listening to has become disturbing. The other day I asked someone what he was listening to on his iPod and he got very secretive and protective of his music device. This person clearly didn’t want me to look at his songs and me being the stereotypical kind of guy immediately jumped to the conclusion that he had songs by Justin Bieber, Taylor Swift, One Direction, etc. stored on his iPod.

Something that might have been possible is that this particular person had in fact a taste for classics such as The Rolling Stones, Elton John, The Beatles, etc. The fact that people nowadays may be ashamed of listening to songs by bands that have sold millions of records is really quite shocking.

I believe that many people who say that they love Dubstep are probably just people who have jumped onto the bandwagon in an effort to be cool.

I am not at all ashamed to say that in my opinion Dubstep is in the category for worst types of ‘music’ in history along with rap. Dubstep really isn’t music; anyone can create a piece of Dubstep with a synthesizer and/or some other technological device. Dubstep really is just a horde of noise that has an average bpm of 140, has an emphasis on sub-bass and sounds like absolute manure.

I believe that one day the friends and decisions we make in life will be affected by the music we listen to and how we listen to it. I have heard of people going out and buying big ‘awesome’ headphones just to be able to wear them to look cool. Imagine if we all did that, we would all look like a bunch of mindless, antisocial freaks.

Music is taking over our world and it will be interesting to see how much our world changes socially as a result of new types of music emerging in the future.