I am a millennial, a person born between 1980 and 2000. Millennials are perhaps the most influential generation or, what some call, the chosen generation. Our influence was illustrated by the impact we had in the election of President Barack Obama. Over the last year, my father has encouraged me to study millennials because he has spent many hours studying them himself. He believes that music defines the character and values of a generation. As a lover of every musical genre, he enlightened me with a genre of songs that describe the desire for change. Most of the songs were composed by artists of his generation, Fifth Dimension, Eric Clapton and Sam Cooke, to name a few. I was pleasantly surprised and excited when he introduced me to a current song with a similar message about change. Muse's "Uspiring," the sixth-ranked song on iTunes' alternative list, has now become a family favorite. My father gave me the task of choreographing a dance to this song for a website he is developing. In an attempt to interpret...
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