Show me the music that people listen to, and I will tell you about their society. - interpretation of Plato.
“Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them.” - Plato, “The Republic”
Music directly represents the passions or states of the soul — gentleness, anger, courage, temperance, and their opposites and other qualities. Hence, when one listens to music that imitates a certain passion, he becomes imbued with the same passion; and if over a long time he habitually listens to the kind of music that arouses ignoble passions, his whole character will be shaped to an ignoble form. - Aristotle
Makes you wonder about the state of society with WAP making it to the top of our charts.