The Bible and Music

Today we talked about our passions and the risk of having a type of crisis that makes you question your life’s direction and how to cope with it. This made me think about why I chose to be a PA: I want to help people. The issues I think that would make me question my choice, and probably one of my biggest fears, is having to deny someone care because they don’t have the proper insurance, or resources to acquire the care they need. I think this would really make doubt my profession and the system I work for. This could be comparable to what the professor referred to as, “the artists curse”. When artists begin to doubt and lose their passion for their work and possibly lose their authenticity. For instance, money is a very influential motivator to artists to just produce what ever gets them revenue. As a listener, I think sometimes you can definitely tell when an artist does this, in an EP artists sometimes release the most “poppy” songs. For instance, Ed Sheeran’s Shape of You has relatively shallow lyrics compared to his other songs on his new album “Divide”. Songs like Castle on the Hill and Supermarket Flowers, I think embody more of his type work. Shape of You I think was released as way to appeal to a larger population to purchase his album.

Overall, I think that artists can start out genuine, but money can potentially skew their authenticity and passion