An Outlook on Alan Silvestri

Topic 3 - Does your chosen musical artist (for the CD project) represent the values of your generation? Explain in a couple of well thought out paragraphs.

Technically, Alan Silvestri has transformed the view of movie soundtracks into a new era. For one thing, soundtracks such as Top Gun where multiple artists were able to make a compile of music are continually disappearing- leaving now all instrumental to take the lead.
But has Alan Silvestri really brought forth something new? In truth- he has, but not in a way expected. Movies have transformed into blood-based and violence-orientated. Many of the movies that aren't segregated for children such as the upcoming Wall*E have become horror films as Sweeny Todd. These horror films have then created new music styles such as Alan Silvestri's. He brings forth a constant strange fear towards his music with startling drum solos after long seconds of barely any music at all except for the whine of a violin.
So instead of the quality and variety of soundtracks like Top Gun, we are left with the frightening sounds of monsters, blood, and violence through our headphones. Movies have been created and sought after for entertainment, and so the music soundtracks are forced to follow the genre- and nowadays, the genres are blending and fusing together into one- horror.