How songs have been influenced by; Social, Cultural and Political factors.
The following article will explain how songs, with social, cultural and political factors, can have a huge impact on music. Social factors usually include how the community is nowadays e.g. young girls wanting to be like pop stars, how women obsess about their figures and appearance, they can even include; religion, ethnicity, family, education and locality. Cultural factors often include ; a set of beliefs, moral values, traditions, language, and laws held in common by a nation, a community, or other defined group of people. They usually are charity singles to raise money for the less fortunate or people in need of help, like for example when there is a natural disaster, sometimes they make a song to help raise money for the innocent people involved in these horrific disasters. Lastly, Political factors include; war, the government, pollution, and all politics in general. These factors can have an impact on the development in music as it lets the world know what is going on around them as not everyone is aware. So it’s like a message to the people, through music, letting them know what is really happening around the world.
A good example of a song with Social factors is “Stupid Girl” by pink. It was released as the first single from her 2006 album, I’m Not Dead. The song was written by Billy Mann, Pink, Nicklas Olovson and Robin Mortensen Lynch. This song was released as a ‘message’ to all young girls; following fashion, influenced by role models, obsessing over their appearances, not wanting to go out without make up on, etc, to show that they do not have to be this way. She tries to tell people that it’s better to be individual rather than a ’sheep-follower’. It gives off the message that the people in magazine business’s, photography, newsletters, and TV presenters are only interested in the celebrities and what they do. This is how society has changed over the years, back in the...