1.
“The commitment to the Pleasure” is a short story written by Hanif Kureishi. The story is about a father who takes his twin sons to a rock concert. During the concert, he thinks back on his own youth and the music back then.
He discovers music again through his sons and like his sons; he spends a lot of time listening to it. Through the short British history, we get from the father. He tells us that regardless if you are Black, Asian, gay, lesbian, hetero or what class you are in music is for everyone. It is the way to speak out freely, being heard, the way we get our identity, and the way.
2.
All the texts have partly the same vision on each other.
In the first text “The commitment to the Pleasure”, the main character's statement about pop music is very positive. He sees pop music as something everybody can hear and something where one can express themselves. He believes that pop music is Britain's identity. In the second story, the narrator is not quite agreeing with the statement of the main character of the first text, about pop music. He agrees that everybody can listen to pop music but believes that pop music has become more or less pornographic. He also believes that children can be damaged by the music and that Lady Gaga and Rihanna are the ones that show the way forward in the music world.
In the third text, the narrator agrees with the opinion about Lady Gaga singing too much about sex and through that damaging the children. But the reason why Lady Gaga is doing her shows like that, is to show the world that women are not just a piece of meat. The magazine tells that one of the other reasons to why Lady Gaga writes so much about sex is to help women create their own identity.
3.
I am partially agreeing with the statement from Mike Stock. I am agreeing in the statement about being sexual images everywhere. Whether it is a music video or in commercials, you will not be able to avoid the sexual images. Nor can the children who in a young age are grinding and singing the song of their idols without knowing the meaning of it. The artists behind the songs only thinks about the moneymaking in the business. They do not think about the audiences of the songs nor the consequences of the songs being heard by the audience. However, I do not agree with the statement about the artists waking up and seeing the damaged they have done. The reason why I do not agree is that if they did, we would not still be bombarded with the sexual images.
4.
The music's history has changed over time, from jazz to rock from hip-hop to pop music, and throughout generations we have been listening to music.
Music is a part of us. It helps to create our identities. Music is meant to be heard, but the music we now are meeting, are mostly about sex as Mike stock also writes, and if the text is not about sex then is the music video. I think it is a shame to teach young people that the way to get forward in life is through sex. The music's history are perhaps ending, when it comes to innocent songs and videos.