Society?

Sometimes I can't help but wonder if people today take music way too seriously. Adopting an acronym from a song and using it as something to live by in our daily lives; is this something that we've always done? Or this this a new phenomenon? It seems like people these days look up to celebrities, singers in this case, and take what they say a lot more to heart than they really should.

I always thought that music was for entertainment, whether the lyrics of a song were inspiring or not. I'd never thought that people would not only enjoy the music an artist puts out, but hang on their every word and adopt it as their own.

With this, however, and the rate at which music spreads these days combined with the wonders of the internet, brings forward a lot of not-so-favourable attention too.

It's interesting to see that something as simple as a song can cause such a ripple amongst people all over the world.

Is this a new thing? Have people always had this form of "celebrity worship"? Either way, people are connecting and forming their own groups just based on the kind of music they listen to or don't listen to. You can talk to people on another side of the globe and be friends with someone starting from the comments section of a YouTube video of your favourite song.