Music of Junior High School

On Monday, I was talking to M., the student that I will be shadowing next Monday, and his friend, S., who are both in two of our classes. They were talking about music and a band they liked, Linkin Park. I asked about the music and S. pulled out a copy of their "Meteora" CD and said, "You want to listen to it?" I told him that I wouldn't be able to get the CD back to him for a week, and he said, "It's cool, I have copies."

I have not had a chance to listen to the music since then, but put it into my CD player this morning. Linkin Park is called "Alternative" music, but is actually a combination of really hard electric guitar riffs and rock and roll lyrics with a generous nod towards rap music.

I did not particularly like the music at all, but I was very surprised at the lyrical content. Almost each song talked about being confused, not knowing who to trust, feeling betrayed, wanting to hide, wanting to run away, not being who people want us to be, feeling lied to, feeling numb and so forth.

If this is the mindset of the younger generation, they must be a very lost group of kids...