Music and Gender

 I loved being around music since I was able to understand what music was. But my grandmother and mother really got me into listening and feeling the music. Growing up I really listened to R&B and that music type was sung by many men and women. I would normally hear it going to school in the morning on the radio and come home listening to it on the TV and on the speaker, but the more I was around it I fell in love with it. If you think about it R&B is the blues it has the same concept and most artists in today's world got their inspiration from R&B or the blues. As I listened to R&B I really listened to both men and women the same but more to the men's side because they would talk about men's problems and would talk about heartbreaks that we can relate to today. On the other hand, the vocals and the passion carried by women in R&B could make you cry just because you can actually hear the pain in their voices when they are talking about certain situations. But to me, I feel like R&B is one of the genres of music that gender doesn't matter because everyone has a story to tell.

One song that shows that Gender doesn't matter in R&B is Verse Simmonds ft. Kelly Rowland the song is called Boo Thang. I love this song because Verse Simmonds tells how he wants to be with this one woman and how he wants to do all these fun things with her and live a life together. Then Kelly Rowland comes and tells all the things she wants to do and how she wants the same things as him.

But one type of music I feel is a gender-based genre is drill music which has taken over the music side of rap. Like out of nowhere drill music just became a thing and people started to like and it's growing in today's society. I personally really don't like it because of the context and meaning behind it which isn't a good meaning and also some people live their life based of the music but that's just me. A song that displays this is Baby Kia the song name is OD Crashin.