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Music Trends
All Around the Record of Lindbergh Students share their favorite musical trends
Ava Kelly- Staff Writer
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Music is a huge part of many people’s lives. It can have a profound impact on pop culture, especially when it comes to high school students. According to Pew Research Center, in 2021, 68% of Americans (12 and older) reported streaming audio content online. In a recent survey conducted on the LHS student body, 165 students responded with their favorite genre; here are the top five most answered genres. The number one favorite genre students reported listening to is the underground Soundcloud, a newer yet older genre that has been popular since 2015. Coming in second place was the genre of indie music, specifically produced independently from commercial record labels that originated in the United States said David Schwartz with the musical journal Repeat-Replay. In third place was hip-hop music, which, as Merriam Webster pointed out, is a cultural movement sweeping up music, dance, art and fashion that consists of rhythmic lyrics.
Coming in at fourth place, R&B, a music genre originating in African-American communities which combine soulful singing with a strong backbeat, according to Encyclopedia Britannica. Then, last but not least, rock music at number five. Rock music evolved from rock and roll, initially characterized by drug-related or anti-establishment lyrics, states Oxford dictionaries. Although there are many diverse groups at Lindbergh combined with different personalities, a similarity between members of each class that responded to the survey was their musical tastes. According to the survey, members of the class of ‘26 tended to spend their time listening to pop and indie. Those that responded said they obtain their musical tastes on their own or from popular radio stations. Sophia Rupp (9), shared her preferred musical artists, “The Lumineers and probably anything by The Weeknd.” The portion of the class of Scan me to play students top choice songs!
‘25 that responded said they spend almost their whole day listening to Kanye West, Lil Uzi Vert, Playboi Carti and indie artists.
Oliver Barrera (10) shared his taste, “Experimental,” and said he enjoys listening to artists like Beach House and King Cool. In addition, responses from members of the junior class showed a more diverse taste consisting of country, rock and rap. A few of the popular artists mentioned were Pierce the Veil, Kanye West and Backseat Lovers. Luke Hamel (11) said he enjoys country artists like Tyler Childers. He said he found his musical taste from “My seniors give me good new music,” and claimed seniors have the best musical taste. Senior class survey respondents said they spend the majority of their time listening to rap, R&B and indie music. The class of ‘23 has a diverse list of favorite artists consisting of Kanye West, A Boogie W Da Hoodie, Gunna, Steve Lacy, and Rihanna. Mirsad Dakic (12) listens to rap artists such as Sheck Wes and Travis Scott at any chance he can get, “My favorite song is probably Sicko Mode by Travis Scott,” he exclaimed, “That song kind of goes crazy!” All in all, the music trends of the Lindbergh student appear to show that students in the different classes aren’t so different from one another.
Feature 11.16.22
A look at how far modern day censorship will go
Sam Elliott - Co-Webeditor & Elowyn Wells - Editor-In-Chief
In this modern day and age, it isn’t abnormal for younger audiences to be reading more mature content. As kids, the most recent generations grew up reading books like A Series of Unfortunate Events, Hunger Games and Maze Runner; which all have depictions of death, suicide and some overall violent and/or explicit material. Now, in 2022, a new Missouri law aims to put a ban on ‘sexually explicit content.’ The ban orginates from the Senate Bill 775, which was signed by Missouri Governor Mike Parson and enacted in late August. Bill 775, the Sexual Assult Survivors’ Bill of Rights, prohibits any educator (public or private) from providing “explicit sexual material” to students. This includes, “any pictorial, three dimensional, or visual depiction, including any photography, film, or video, picture or computer-generated image that contains ‘sexually explicit materials.’” This means that any challenged book deemed eligible to be banned can be taken off the shelves in school libraries. “This is my sixth year and this is the first time I’ve experienced anything like this,” Ms. Anna Whitehead, a librarian at Lindbergh High School said.
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Here are some of the books that have been removed in other schools: 1984 (graphic novel), American Gods 1: Shadows, American Gods 2: My Ainsel, Annie Leibovitz at Work, Crime and Punishment (graphic novel), GenderQueer, Himawari House, Milk and Honey, The Daughters of Ys, The Handmaid’s Tale (graphic novel), The Human Body in Action, The Sun and Her Flowers and Women. And Lindbergh has removed some from it’s shelves, including the graphic novels of Game of Thrones (vol. 1-4) and The Walking Dead (vol. 4,7,8,11) series. Another removed book was Gender Queer, which The New York Times credits with being the most banned book in the U.S. in 2021. It seems the influence of the bill is primarily targeting graphic novels. “It impacts books that have illustrations,” said Whitehead. “a little over 600 graphic novels in selection in a collection that’s about 15,000, which is about 4%. So a relatively small percentage of the collection is illustrated text.” While the law impacts the accessibility of usable content in the classroom, it does make some exemptions. “The law does make exceptions for specific things,” said Ms. Whitehead. “For instance, art is exempted, a book of Renaissance paintings, that would not apply. Anthropological significance is also exempted, like National Geographic; where they have photos of different groups of people around
