| Walking around the
Palo Alto College campus, you are bound to have seen someone wearing
headphones and have wondered who or what they’re listening to. Music styles have changed over the past years. The grunge days are long gone and the rap-metal mayhem has reached an abrupt end. So what do Palo Alto students listen to? “When I walk from class to class, I like to listen to Poison The Well,” said Victor Nava, a freshman Palo Alto student majoring in Engineering. “I think that music really affects the mood you’re in, so my music usually reflects the way I feel.” Although the Palo Alto Student Center does not have a jukebox, students hang out just outside the building blasting a small boom box. Passers-by can hear everything from rock to rap when strolling across campus. “I think that if the Student Center were to have a jukebox it would have to have a variety of music available because students at Palo Alto are so diverse that there is more than just one musical taste,” said Nava. “I’ve heard the music from the Student Center. I think it would be cool if they played some Pink Floyd,” said Charlie Gregory, a freshman Palo Alto student majoring in Industrial Concept and Design. “I really listen to everything, drum and bass some electronic and electro clash. When I walk the Palo Alto campus, what I hear in my head is Air. It’s a really mellow band, almost ambient,” he said calmly. “They appear on The Virgin Suicide movie soundtrack.” Kathy Hine, a freshman Criminology major, is not only listening to music she creates it. “I’m in a band with my dad; I just started playing bass guitar.” Hine really enjoys listening to everything from punk to country music and everything in between. “I really like that song “Work It” by Missy Elliot,” said Hine. Palo Alto students are very diverse musically. With the changing of times, it is difficult to say what genre of music will take over the radio waves next. |