Is There Anything Authentic to my Generation?

I believe there is nothing my generation can call its own without it being connected to major corporations. Being known as the “ipod generation” is something that really doesn’t bother me. My world as I have ever known it has been surrounded and covered with advertisements and flooded with big business. Essentially I feel like we own these businesses because they spend so much time and energy looking into our culture and what we want and how to get us to buy what they are selling, that we are the life of their company. Although we cannot say we are the “Radio generation” or the “Television generation” the teenagers today have more power in the economy and market than ever before. We could compare the “ipod generation” with the others mentioned however ipod is automatically associated with Apple. Overall, I don’t really mind that we don’t have something so unique to our culture but that idea that we have to so much power and control is something to credit our generation with.

Knowing What We Want

"It's a shame that the people who are listening to you the most are only interested in you because they want you and your peers to buy their product."

I believe there is some truth to that statement. Industry today works so hard to get into our lives to see who we are, how we act, what we want, what we don't like so they can sell us a product. They are very good at their job. They have to really listen to us because we are their market and what we buy determinds how successful they will be.

I am not necessarily comfortable with this statement, but when you really think about it, it's true. But, they are the only ones that really have to listen to us because we are their market. What other jobs are there that go inside the teen culture and teen life? In order for that specific company to come out on top, that's what they have to do, and they chose to do it. Others don't necessarily chose to listen so closely.

Overall, I agree with the statement and believe that there is truth too it, but that's the kind of world we live in today.

Nightswimming

R.E.M.'s song Nightswimming, I think is a love song. It is very low key and intimate. The song reflects being close with another and being intimate. Stipe also portrays the ideas of a womens mysteriousness and of the powers of being in love. I never really thought about the lyrics until I actually read them even though I know them by heart. Overall, Nightswimming is a very calm song that describes the deeper meaning of love and love be sacred.

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