Every genre has its time and place. You may bust out the Beethoven as you’re finishing up that overdue essay, but you’d certainly hesitate to blast it at that late night rager two hours later. And if electro is your jam, you still have to disengage from the thump-thump at some point to maintain your sanity. But there is one genre you can listen to wherever, whenever, a universal language for all listeners — Motown.
It has the soul to pick you out of the lowest of lows and the groove to make your next party the swankiest Penn has seen. There’s just the right dose of nostalgia in Diana Ross’s voice to put you right back in 1960s Detroit and enough power in Jackie Wilson’s to lift you higher than ever before. So stop what you’re doing, create the Pandora station and get hooked on the Motown train. Revitalize the genre this campus needs. If you don’t, then in the words of Betty Everett, “you’re not listening to all I say.”
