Thoughts by Alyssa Adams

 How does music serve society?      Music has always played a huge role in people's lives for as long as time goes. There is a sense of connection between music and people and their need/desire to create or just listen. There are certain genres of music that some people feel like it fits a certain type of person shaping society. For example, Gilbergalindo.com states that some people feel like classical music is for rich older people. Not only is this felt by people but also it is promoted by movies, plays, and books.     With that being said about classical music leads towards a stereotype that leads me to to other genres of music that have stereotypes tagged along with them. I think that the stereotypes that are shaped around genres of music end up shaping society into certain types of people that sometimes end up shaping people's lifestyles and the way that they dress. The country music stereotype about people who listen to it is that they are dumb and drink a lot of beer. We

 One of my all-time favorite childhood movies is Mulan. I have always liked the image that it portrays for women and the sense of humor that comes along with this movie. This song specifically I think portrays the time that it was mad and how men felt about women. The expectations that were had on women and that they were worth fighting for if they can cook, clean, and they're pretty. While the men are saying these things Mulan is saying what if she speaks her mind or has a brain to think for herself and the men that she is preparing to go to battle with all say "nah". At this time she is pretending to be a man because she took her father's space to go to war so the men that she is out there with don't know that she is a woman but with the way that they were talking in the song, she definitely disagrees with their perspective. This song was written in 1998 with the movie and was sung by Harvey Fierstein, James Hong, Lea Salonga, Jerry Tondo, and Matthew Wilder. Th

Britney Spears was just 7 or 8 years old when she felt the drive to perform. She tried out for Micky Mouse Club when she was 8 years old but it wasn't until she was 11 years old that she got the part. she was on the show for only two years. For the next few years, she focused on school and playing sports but her desire to sing and get back on the stage was calling her. In 1998 at the age of 17, she released her first single Baby One More Time. This song was a hit from the time that it came out in less than a year it was at the top of the billboards and sold 25 million copies. with this accomplishment, she received multiple awards. In 2000 she released Oops... I did it Again selling more than a million in the first week. From then until 2017 her songs were up and down in the billboards as she released new songs here and there. Her biggest hit was Toxic which was released in 2003. This song won her a Grammy at the 47th Grammy Awards. Max Martian is known to have written many of Britn