All I hear on todays radio are either has-beens trying to become post-modern diva/ rock stars with a pop twist, or remixed music of has-beens with a post-modern diva/ rock star with a pop twist. Neither are talent filled anymore.
My main focus is the music industry, only because it affects me. I don't think I've spend more than five minutes in the car dedicating my time to celebrity cop outs, who appear to be less than what we give credit for.
I began to think that it was creativity that died in the music mans soul, but now I sway to believe that it's the inspiration of creativity that's become sedated. Somewhere between songwriting and passion, came money. And that's as far as any artist needed to look. After the deal was sealed who cares what they write as long it's catchy enough to make the radio.
What's most annoying about the radio is that it's all the same. Everyones creativity and inspiration is coming from each other and it's all the same music. The songs the general population like (or are being force-fed) reflects their social values...or what should be their social values. Like sex, drive-bys, hating the president or raging against society. We all love these things right? The music industry assumes that we all think in unison.
I'm not saying to change your taste in music, your tastes are fine. From rap to rock, they both express what they mean. But next time you hear a song on the radio, why do you actually like it? I could pick buskers off the street with so much more passion and creativity that deserve to be given a chance, rather than the money-hungry singers that are following that stack of money hooked to a fishing line being tugged by the major record labels.
I've written this only because someone said to me 'you're the first person I know who listens to 70s and 80s music', and I wondered why I listen to it. The only answer I found was that yes, the video did kill the radio star, with half naked women washing cars on television screens singing songs that have no relevant messages other than 'sex is good'. I'm watching MTV for damn good music, not damn good body parts, but I assume I'm not like the population on this topic, we all like watching surgically plasticized women flicking their legs around, right?
3 comments:
interesting.it's interesting that potentially passion-rousing subjects and attitudes [love, politics, sex, hate, fun] could become so irrelevant due to their treatment in the music industry and in society. i agree that money is one major cause, but it seems to me that people don't think anymore. i like the existentialist idea that if a person consciously makes something valuable to himself, simply by deciding that it is valuable, then it becomes whatever he/she has made it. that sort of relevance is impossible if everyone just listens to whatever's accessable and popular at the moment. also, i would be interested in writing for your blog. are you open to that idea?
oh, i'm sorry. i just read the sidebar on "how to join". now that i've made such a fabulously unobservant impression...
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