Peace And Love

A time of rebellion, drugs and sexual freedoms, brought on a period of counterculture. The norms of 1950 began to gradually fade away as youth rejected the traditional ways of generations before them. Movements such as, “Ban the Bomb”, The Civil Rights movement, and other events began to escalate into serious matters; this initiated protest and riots. Society felt as if issues that were growing needed to be resolved. Soldiers suffered from the blood shed of the war and society wanted peace to focus on internal matters. The counterculture disagreed with what their parents supported. These issues prevented a multicultural unity. A combination of elusive drugs sweep the nation as youth began to use marijuana, alcohol, and amphetamines as a passage way into another world. The usage of LSD became popular for its powerful stimulation of the brain, prohibiting it to function property and hallucinate. A ray of music during this decade was used to express the views of life during the 1960’s. Artist like the Beatles and Jimmi Hendrix rocked and rolled the summer of love into a great evolution. This widespread of music spread epidemically. Bonnie Dobson sings, “But, Yes I know I hear my baby crying, Mama! you’ll never hear your baby cry again.” The first initial review it seems as if Dobson is explaining something in the natural realm is hurting life and all its aspects, but as I look deeper into the lyrics I can see how she states the existence of a nuclear explosion and its outcome as the last woman and man was left on earth. Nothing exemplifies the sixties quite like this song “The Ball of Confusion” by the Temptations. This song negatively shows the audience how corrupt the world was becoming. “a ball of confusion, that’s what the world is today” and “The sale of pills are at an all-time high, Young folks walk around with Their heads in the sky” is giving us the notion of how destructive this era was to society. Peacefully, this song gives a positive break down on