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An article from me. Just a simple protest about the 21st century music industry...
If you don't like being insulted, go away.
The Golden Cash-Cow
by Niko
So I woke up one bright Saturday morning?like always?and turned on my radio?like always?only to be greeted by the meshed up power chords, beat-less bass lines, mindless drumming, all topped with an incoherent, screeching, yelling (saliva sputtering included), voice?like always. Frustrated by this garbage?like always?I grabbed my MP3 player and just listened to some other eloquent band rather than the cheap, superficial, mindless trash they play in the radio nowadays?like always. If you haven?t gotten the picture yet (don?t worry, I?ll try to be as clear and specific for you special-ed kids), I?m condemning the music industry of today.
Like you care, huh?
Of course you do. It?s what you listen to everyday. It?s what the radio plays everyday. It?s your favorite band. It?s the stuff in your MP3 player. It?s the new thing that was out a month ago, a year ago, or whatever. Utter rubbish.
What happened to the bands that lasted a lifetime? What happened to the songs that remained timeless? What happened to the soul of music? All gone and devoured by the money hungry, soulless, greedy, selfish music industry of the 21st Century. Bands nowadays are more interested in how much they earn rather than what kind of music they?re going to do next. Artists, bands, musicians alike? they?re more into publicity and fame rather than making music for the love of it. Yes, it?s the horrible truth. They?re rather interested in your Benjis and Abes rather than give you the most memorable music of your lifetime.
It?s hard to believe since now, you must be looking at the CD cover of your favorite band that were just famous a while ago and tell yourself: ?No way is this idiot ever referring to my band?? ?No way is so-and-so ever making crappy music! Their music rocks!? ?No way is so-and-so stealing my money. They rule!? ?This stupid guy is out of his mind!?
Well of course I?m condemning so-and-so. Of course I?m calling them corporate swines. Of course I?m saying that they love your greenbacks. Just look at all the so-called ?punk? (note the quotation marks) and ?emo? bands nowadays. All I could really find is what I described. Power chords with the same type of distortion (for every band, too), bass lines that couldn?t make it to the surface because they couldn?t help but be drowned by the mindless, distorted, meshed up power chords. Random, repulsive, and spontaneous drumming creating a weak and pitiful backbone for something not even worth calling a song. The only difference I could find from these self-proclaimed ?punk? and ?emo? bands is the fact that punks do a lot of superficial whining, screaming, and shallow lyrics, whilst emos do a lot of superficial whining, screaming, and BS poetry that doesn?t even cut it in my book (No, no pun intended, har-har-dee-har-har).
What seems gold for the na?ve mind is actually trash for the person who has been listening to all sorts of music all his life. Sadly, there are people who actually like this kind of music. They?re usually the clueless people who couldn?t really separate good music from bad. They?re the victims of the pop-music industry of the late 90s. Sad, but true. People who really had nothing to listen to but some blonde girl talking about doing it again, a bunch of teens who like to say bye? yeah, those people. And another sad fact is that it?s the only thing that you could listen to. Well, that?s maybe because MTV is the only music channel you seem to be interested in. Or it?s the fact that it?s the only thing the radio plays. Oh yes. Too much airplay can be pretty bad for you. And so the kiddies listen to that kind of music for? let?s say two years? As soon as their taste of music evolves, they already know what?s appealing to them. So in that case, up comes some band who likes to do ?punk? music out of nowhere and appeals the crowd. MTV sees this, does some extensive airplay, that certain ?punk? band gets rich, more followers emerge making that same kind of ?punk.? What do you get? Manufactured music. The same pattern of repetitive and standard-ish music you get nowadays. And what?s so surprising is that MTV actually likes this and puts them up into airplay. And since they have the similar type of music as the band before them, they would automatically get fans. Well, the huge number of the bands with the same type of style (note that I didn?t use ?genre?) make a draw back: short lived bands.
Of course it?s so obvious that the bands don?t even care about their music. Of course it?s obvious. Just compare these famous-for-a-while bands with some bands in the 60s, 70s, 80s, and early 90s (that lasted for 15 or more years, however some of them disbanded, though their music is still memorable and timeless and it?s as if that band is still here today). Notice that they don?t even last a couple of months sometimes. If they do last a couple of months, they go touring, make a mediocre show (compared to what marvelous things certain bands in the 80s could do back then?), go back to the studio, and make another album which has the same formula as the previous album. And then since the fans like this, as it sounds like their previous album, they?ll buy it. Then they go tour, make a mediocre show, go back to the studio, make the same album except with different lyrics this time, sell it for millions, go on tour? you get the idea. You don?t? Ah, shame then (Note that this cycle actually occurs in a span of two months to two years). But so yeah? multiply that by a hundred. That?s the music industry of today.
But you do notice the pattern, right? You don?t, Johnny? Ah, shame for you, too. But you do get the pattern, right? Now you get what I mean by manufactured music? Now you notice that bands could just make random and complete BS of music while their fans obliviously buy the album, force themselves to like it (after all, they are their favorite bands), and go spend a couple of Benjis to see a mediocre show better seeing in DVD.
Notice that I?m not really pointing any fingers to any certain bands. But I?m trying to improve your awareness. And hopefully you got the subject of this little article. Short lived music that you could possibly forget in ten years isn?t worth your money. At least try to broaden your sense of what?s good to listen and what?s not. The best thing I could do these days is just discouraging this kind of worthless and utter rubbish.
If you don't like being insulted, go away.
The Golden Cash-Cow
by Niko
So I woke up one bright Saturday morning?like always?and turned on my radio?like always?only to be greeted by the meshed up power chords, beat-less bass lines, mindless drumming, all topped with an incoherent, screeching, yelling (saliva sputtering included), voice?like always. Frustrated by this garbage?like always?I grabbed my MP3 player and just listened to some other eloquent band rather than the cheap, superficial, mindless trash they play in the radio nowadays?like always. If you haven?t gotten the picture yet (don?t worry, I?ll try to be as clear and specific for you special-ed kids), I?m condemning the music industry of today.
Like you care, huh?
Of course you do. It?s what you listen to everyday. It?s what the radio plays everyday. It?s your favorite band. It?s the stuff in your MP3 player. It?s the new thing that was out a month ago, a year ago, or whatever. Utter rubbish.
What happened to the bands that lasted a lifetime? What happened to the songs that remained timeless? What happened to the soul of music? All gone and devoured by the money hungry, soulless, greedy, selfish music industry of the 21st Century. Bands nowadays are more interested in how much they earn rather than what kind of music they?re going to do next. Artists, bands, musicians alike? they?re more into publicity and fame rather than making music for the love of it. Yes, it?s the horrible truth. They?re rather interested in your Benjis and Abes rather than give you the most memorable music of your lifetime.
It?s hard to believe since now, you must be looking at the CD cover of your favorite band that were just famous a while ago and tell yourself: ?No way is this idiot ever referring to my band?? ?No way is so-and-so ever making crappy music! Their music rocks!? ?No way is so-and-so stealing my money. They rule!? ?This stupid guy is out of his mind!?
Well of course I?m condemning so-and-so. Of course I?m calling them corporate swines. Of course I?m saying that they love your greenbacks. Just look at all the so-called ?punk? (note the quotation marks) and ?emo? bands nowadays. All I could really find is what I described. Power chords with the same type of distortion (for every band, too), bass lines that couldn?t make it to the surface because they couldn?t help but be drowned by the mindless, distorted, meshed up power chords. Random, repulsive, and spontaneous drumming creating a weak and pitiful backbone for something not even worth calling a song. The only difference I could find from these self-proclaimed ?punk? and ?emo? bands is the fact that punks do a lot of superficial whining, screaming, and shallow lyrics, whilst emos do a lot of superficial whining, screaming, and BS poetry that doesn?t even cut it in my book (No, no pun intended, har-har-dee-har-har).
What seems gold for the na?ve mind is actually trash for the person who has been listening to all sorts of music all his life. Sadly, there are people who actually like this kind of music. They?re usually the clueless people who couldn?t really separate good music from bad. They?re the victims of the pop-music industry of the late 90s. Sad, but true. People who really had nothing to listen to but some blonde girl talking about doing it again, a bunch of teens who like to say bye? yeah, those people. And another sad fact is that it?s the only thing that you could listen to. Well, that?s maybe because MTV is the only music channel you seem to be interested in. Or it?s the fact that it?s the only thing the radio plays. Oh yes. Too much airplay can be pretty bad for you. And so the kiddies listen to that kind of music for? let?s say two years? As soon as their taste of music evolves, they already know what?s appealing to them. So in that case, up comes some band who likes to do ?punk? music out of nowhere and appeals the crowd. MTV sees this, does some extensive airplay, that certain ?punk? band gets rich, more followers emerge making that same kind of ?punk.? What do you get? Manufactured music. The same pattern of repetitive and standard-ish music you get nowadays. And what?s so surprising is that MTV actually likes this and puts them up into airplay. And since they have the similar type of music as the band before them, they would automatically get fans. Well, the huge number of the bands with the same type of style (note that I didn?t use ?genre?) make a draw back: short lived bands.
Of course it?s so obvious that the bands don?t even care about their music. Of course it?s obvious. Just compare these famous-for-a-while bands with some bands in the 60s, 70s, 80s, and early 90s (that lasted for 15 or more years, however some of them disbanded, though their music is still memorable and timeless and it?s as if that band is still here today). Notice that they don?t even last a couple of months sometimes. If they do last a couple of months, they go touring, make a mediocre show (compared to what marvelous things certain bands in the 80s could do back then?), go back to the studio, and make another album which has the same formula as the previous album. And then since the fans like this, as it sounds like their previous album, they?ll buy it. Then they go tour, make a mediocre show, go back to the studio, make the same album except with different lyrics this time, sell it for millions, go on tour? you get the idea. You don?t? Ah, shame then (Note that this cycle actually occurs in a span of two months to two years). But so yeah? multiply that by a hundred. That?s the music industry of today.
But you do notice the pattern, right? You don?t, Johnny? Ah, shame for you, too. But you do get the pattern, right? Now you get what I mean by manufactured music? Now you notice that bands could just make random and complete BS of music while their fans obliviously buy the album, force themselves to like it (after all, they are their favorite bands), and go spend a couple of Benjis to see a mediocre show better seeing in DVD.
Notice that I?m not really pointing any fingers to any certain bands. But I?m trying to improve your awareness. And hopefully you got the subject of this little article. Short lived music that you could possibly forget in ten years isn?t worth your money. At least try to broaden your sense of what?s good to listen and what?s not. The best thing I could do these days is just discouraging this kind of worthless and utter rubbish.
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