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Super Furry Animals - Waiting to Happen

While melody and harmony are all important parts of any song, Jazz emphasizes something that is so important to the development of music, improvisation. In Jazz, each performer takes a turn experimenting with different notes to create an overall new sound experience. Every time they step out on stage, Jazz musicians may perform songs that no one has ever heard before, and no one will hear again. Since the beginning of Jazz, people have been using its improvisation factor to express how they feel.

Jazz has contributed a great deal to the style of Hip hop music. Some critics have said that Hip hop is just a way to ruin or vulgarize Jazz, but what those people don’t understand is that the artists of today are taking the influences of past Jazz musicians and adding their own new elements to create new music. Hip hop takes all the elements that Jazz contains, like infectious rhythms and intense melodies, and develops it into something new. Just like with Jazz, improve-or freestyling is a lauded skill in hip hop that allows rappers to express their thoughts and feelings on the spot with their music. It’s not uncommon for battle rappers to engage in freestyle battles and ciphers for sport. It all comes back to improvisation. Whether you’re playing Jazz or rapping your own lyrics, you are able to communicate your feelings through music, which is an enlightening experience. As George Gershwin once said, Life is a lot like jazz. It’s best when you improvise.

Music has a way of communicating with people who may have little or nothing in common. Two people who don’t speak the same language, or have the same culture, or look the same, can feel emotions and enjoy a song in their own unique way. Jazz is one of those genres of music that everyone who hears it experiences something, whether or not they are alike. Jazz has played a big part in America’s culture and history, as a form of expression and a way of bringing people together. What began as a way to escape reality, turned into an expression of one’s self. We thank the Black communities of America for creating jazz, music that can unite people of different races and ethnicities, allowing us to come together to enjoy. Jazz music and its offspring are evolving every day. While it’s important to learn from and remember the great musicians of the past, we also need to look forward and see what the future will hold for America’s true form of music.


Super Furry Animals - Waiting to Happen
  • Produced by: Gorwel Owen
  • Released on: July 1, 1996
  • Genres: Indie Rock, Glam Rock

"Super Furry Animals were one of the first post alternative bands, fusing together a number of musical genres, including power pop, punk rock, techno, and progressive rock. As one of the leading bands of the mid '90s Welsh movement, they were tagged as outsiders for singing entire songs in their native tongue."

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