Aim #1- Pleasure
The Afters, "Beautiful Love", Alternative, 2009
Enrique Inglesias, "Tonight" , Pop, 2010 [Song Posted]
Dido, "Sand In My Shoes", Pop, 2009
Cobra Starship, "Good Girls Go Bad", Pop, 2009
Taio Cruz, "Dynamite", Pop, 2010
Aim 3- Community Service
Eminem, "Beautiful", Rap, 2009
Paramore, "Hallelujah", Alternative, 2007
Plumb, "Hang On", Pop, 2009 [Song Posted]
Civl Twilight, "Human", Alternative, 2009
Paramore, "I Caught Myself", Alternative, 2009
For this assignment I tried to find songs from as many different genres as I could to see if specific factors were more common in a specific genre of music. I mostly listen to rock/alternative so maybe that is why most of my results are in a rock category. But hey I tried. I found that there were more songs that could correspond with the pleasure aim versus the community service aim. When I think of community service as a Hindu aim I look at is as someone helping others and thinking that they should work for a greater purpose because they know that their religion says that they should. So I found very few songs (that would be considered pop culture) that talked about going through acts of community service because their religion pushes it (unless you look at Christian singers or bands but even then it was very limited). I think it is so much easier to talk about pleasures is because it relates to everyone whereas the community service aim is usually only applied to those that follow some sort of religion or ideology that places importance on the community service factor. What surprised me the most was how difficult it was to find a song that would somewhat justify to fit in the community service claim. Makes me wonder how much of music has religious inspiration. The Hindu aims are slightly different from American Pop Culture music in the sense that American Music is focused much more on the pleasures of life rather than the religious satisfactions that one receives.
