Also this is a combo post, please look at "Give up the funk" for my blog review
I am researching the Disney corporation as apart of my junior theme. On Suday when I was sick, I watched a great documentary about Disney's animation practices in the mid 80's in early 90's, called Waking Sleeping Beauty. I found it super interesting that so many of these films I love so much we're kind of cast aside and thought of as lame when they were first being produced. For example, one of my favorite movies (and subsequently favorite disney channel tv shows) is The Little Mermaid, and during the first pitch of this movie, it wasn't even supposed to be a musical! CRAY CRAY. Its interesting to see how much things can change through a long process, like junior theme!
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Give Up The Funk
Today was my first day I could take sometime to watch TV this week so I turned on VH1and watch the 100 Greatest Artists of All-Time countdown. Most of these countdowns have the same artists: Stones, Beatles, Zeppelin, and Michael Jackson, but no one exciting or new to a list and this one seemed the same way. Then came number 38. Sly & The Family Stone was a funk band from the late 60's who challenged every aspect of mainstream culture at the time. Not only were their lyrics a call for social action during the civil rights movement, they really pushed the envelope and showed what the future could bring for music. They had black and white musicians playing this intense funk fusion music calling for a change of the American social structure.
Their first number-one hit was "Everyday People"
They changed their sound from funky funk to a more commercial pop funk to appeal to the masses. This song coined the phrase "different strokes for different folks", which became a phrase of empowerment in 1969. This band really tried to change to world they were living in one song at a time.
We've been talking so much about the civil rights movement and how it was a grass-roots movement and this song attests to the fact that "Everyday People" can change things.
Sly and The Family Stone paved the way for so many integrated bands like Alice in Chains, Rage Against the Machine, Prince and the Revolution, and the new generation of music listeners need to be introduced to this band.
(And for reference, Give Up the Funk is a Parliament Funkadelic song which owns)
Their first number-one hit was "Everyday People"
They changed their sound from funky funk to a more commercial pop funk to appeal to the masses. This song coined the phrase "different strokes for different folks", which became a phrase of empowerment in 1969. This band really tried to change to world they were living in one song at a time.
We've been talking so much about the civil rights movement and how it was a grass-roots movement and this song attests to the fact that "Everyday People" can change things.
Sly and The Family Stone paved the way for so many integrated bands like Alice in Chains, Rage Against the Machine, Prince and the Revolution, and the new generation of music listeners need to be introduced to this band.
(And for reference, Give Up the Funk is a Parliament Funkadelic song which owns)
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