{"id":2442130,"date":"2026-06-02T20:02:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T20:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2442130"},"modified":"2026-06-02T20:02:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T20:02:29","slug":"report-musics-power-to-unite-heal-down-74","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/report-musics-power-to-unite-heal-down-74\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Music\u2019s Power To Unite, Heal Down 74%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph theonion-dingbat\">WASHINGTON\u2014Indicating a downward trend across all genres, a new report from the Recording Industry Association of America released Thursday found that music\u2019s power to bridge divides and lift spirits had dropped 74%.\u00a0\u201cAfter this latest dip in its capacity to unify, we can no longer recommend music as a reliable means of bringing people together,\u201d said RIAA representative Marc Olivier, noting that in the past year there had been almost no instances of the art form inspiring a group of strangers to set aside their differences and join hands in song. \u201cWe found music\u2019s ability to foster connections that transcend race, creed, and even language has steadily declined over the past 50 years, culminating in a marked drop in swaying and singing arm-in-arm among nearly every demographic. New data shows that combinations of melodic instrumentation, energizing rhythm, rich harmonies, and a catchy chorus now offer no significant balm to emotional wounds, and only succeed in soothing a young soldier\u2019s crisis of conscience or deescalating tensions between law enforcement and civilians in 1% of cases. That\u2019s down from a record high of 86% in 1975.\u201d\u00a0The report did note the exception of the \u201cHappy Birthday\u201d song, which, when performed in a restaurant, still held the power to galvanize anyone within earshot to join in on the fun.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source theonion.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON\u2014Indicating a downward trend across all genres, a new report from the Recording Industry Association of America released Thursday found that music\u2019s power to bridge divides and lift spirits had dropped 74%.\u00a0\u201cAfter this latest dip in its capacity to unify, we can no longer recommend music as a reliable means of bringing people together,\u201d said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2442131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[479406,21800,479407],"class_list":["post-2442130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-former-print-exclusive","tag-music","tag-vol-62-issue-10"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Report-Musics-Power-To-Unite-Heal-Down-74.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2442130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2442132,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442130\/revisions\/2442132"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2442131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2442130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2442130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2442130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}