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The Music Industry Today
Something for Everyone

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By Nick Freberg
Staff Writer

tirely. Others went back to their old
People have enways, and a few groups from back
joyed listening to
in the day were out there still permusic for centuforming after many years.
ries. Civilizations
The most controversial artist of this
have gone from
summer was, you guessed it - Miley
listening to artists
Cyrus. It is mindboggling how she
such as Beethoven
went from being a sensational TV
and Mozart long
star on Disney’s “Hannah Montana”
ago, to enjoying
several different genres now.
“Most people have their own
Most people have their own fafavorite type of music.”
vorite kind of music. This is the
case for the students here at
Nick Freberg
Abington High School. Some
listen to rap music and artists
such as Drake, 2 Chainz and Kanye
to twerking on national television at
West. Others listen to rock music.
the Video Music Awards in just a
Some of these bands include Rise
few years.
Against, Linkin Park, and an underIn the midst of this, Eminem, one of
rated band known as Redlight King.
the most famous rappers, is set to
There are those who listen to dubrelease “The Marshall Mathers LP
step or electronic music including
2.” It will be his first album since
artists such as Skrillex and Deadthe Grammy award winning
mau5 (pronounced dead mouse).
“Recovery” released back in 2010.
Today, some music and its artists
Two songs, “Survival” and
can cause controversy. In fact over
“Berzerk” have already been rethis past summer the general public
leased and received millions of
witnessed some artists change en-

views on YouTube.
Groups from the
“Rock and Roll”
era are still rocking after all these
years. Ozzie Osborne and Black
Sabbath just released a new track called “God Is
Dead?” and th