By Levina Whande
Back in the day, music used to be a tool of positive influence across the globe. The mother of moral development and mostly exceptional brain utilization amongst the youth. I remember listening to my mother's favourite song with the following familiar words," Ndakabva naye kure kure kwaMurambinda ndichiti ndamuwana Mai wevana.....".This classical song on its own influenced young men to cherish women, to fight for them and never perceive them any less than mothers of their children (life givers) and prove to be a man by going out of their way to earn their love.
This however is ultimately different from how our modern day music influences the society and the youth at large. Modern day hip-hop ceased to communicate political issues, it ceased to positively influence men to value the opposite sex or the female specie to value themselves. If young women refused to get naked in music videos and appear to have nothing more to offer than sex and beauty, most modern day rappers would have nothing else to sing about.
Modern music has failed to
communicate solutions towards societal challenges. Recently, it even became far
more mentally destructive to a point of influencing young
girls to bleach their
skins only because it communicated across the globe that beauty was defined by
being light skinned, that your body had to meet certain standards to be
pleasing to the opposite sex. Young girls even aspired to inject themselves to
enhance their hips and the likes.
What always provokes me is the fact that
these male singers always have all their clothes own, even jackets and jeans
but
the women in their videos only have under garments on. Society should
recognize that music is a powerful tool and should be regulated. Music should
reflect talent, intellect and humanity as back in the day.
My only wish is that these studios should set high standards as to what they record and release, everyone else who lacks talent and solutions should focus on getting an education, on starting a business and building anything else that won't negatively influence the next generation.
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