Music Along The Years.

Music is widely spread throughout the world since ages. It evolves and divided onto genre and sub-genre from time to time. Pop music are among the genre that massively evolving from 1960’s till today.

Written by Firdaus Raihan

1980s - The new age of Rock. This is the time where bands like AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, Bon Jovi, Van Halen, Guns N Roses, Iron Maiden and many more spawned. Music at this point of time is strongly used to express hard emotions, and hence many of these rock bands are pretty rebellious, in their sense of writing and character. Due to these guys, they stirred many ‘rockstars’ around town. Rebellious, free-livin’, and down right ‘bad boy’. Eventually, these ‘rockstars’ did create a movement.
(Sources: http://www.kidzworld.com/article/5281-pioneers-of-heavy-metal, http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/80smusic.html )

Written by Maskurnia Sayuti

House music is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in the early 1980s in the American city of Chicago follow by Europe. It then began to influence popular music in Europe, with popular songs such as "House Music" by Benny Benassi in the pop charts. Since the early to mid-1990s, house music has been infused in mainstream pop and dance music worldwide. House Music is not hip hop or techno, it’s a repetitive 4 by 4 beats. Unfortunately, House Music bring out negative impact on teens like drug, and alcohol.
(Sources: http://carlme.wordpress.com/2009/02/10/house-music-dance-culture/, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_music)

Written by Danny

1990s- Popular music in the 1990s saw the continuation of teen pop and dance-pop trends which had emerged in the 1970s and 1980s. Additionally, hip hop grew and continued to be highly successful in the decade, with the continuation of the genre's golden age.
Similarly to the 1980s, rock music was also very popular in the 1990s, yet, unlike the New Wave and glam metal-dominated scene of the time, grunge (Nirvana), Britpop (U2) , industrial rock and Electronic music, which had risen in popularity in the 1980s, grew highly popular in the 1990s, as well as new EDM genres such as trance, drum and bass, intelligent dance and trip hop.
(Sources: http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/90smusic.html )

Written by Wesley Wong

2010’s - K-pop has undoubtedly became a world-wide phenomenon. K-pop is getting loads of recognition even from the American culture which is a huge deal because it is a tough industry to break into. However, has the K-pop culture impacted society in a good way or bad ? Based on my opinion, K-pop has affected society in a bad way. Based on http://malaysia.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100221051752AAlShjL, “The whole process of only choosing those with the prettiest faces, 'hottest' bodies - completely ignoring any real musical talent or innovation - and then making them sing and dance in such an appealing-to-the-masses way”.
(Sources: http://malaysia.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100221051752AAlShjL)

Written by Lee Wern Keith

Along the years, there have been many changes to the sound that entertains. It is certain that a genre brings a culture with it. Whether good or bad, it is the listeners who decide how to utilize the music.

Written by Dhivakaran Jude