Pop Music and how It Has Changed

When you think of "pop music" certain celebrities immediately come to mind. People like Brittany Spears and groups like N'SNYC and the Back street boys have become what some people today view as American idols, people that we strive to be like or look like. But the kind of messages that pop artists today are sending out are far removed from the popular music of the 1960's. Music today is extremely disparate than that of the sixties when pop culture turned the world, especially New York, upside down. The Velvet Underground, for starters, wrote their own lyrics. They wrote them about topics that artists today would never dare to touch upon but rather ignore, and didn't care what people thought of them. A deeper meaning runs throughout the music and lyrics of the velvet underground while a sense of irrelevance is prevalent in much of the popular music today.…