Dear America,
When did this become acceptable as pop music? When did we become so dumb and lazy that this utter bullshit, this steaming pile of soulless garbage that any half-wit with a computer could churn out, become a national phenomenon with sold out shows everywhere? Mind boggling. So many goddamn questions. Not the least of which is how the fuck are we letting this happen? Is it the polite, innocent, unassuming, non-threatening sheen of clean-cut American youth? The hypnotic allure of his stylish reverse mullet? Seriously, who the hell is dropping good coin to see this living turd perform tonight at the Tabernacle? And can someone please tell me what the fuck is this asshole talking about?! The lyrics sound like a drunken six-year-old wrote them.
You know, it wasn’t so long ago when Top 40 artists could actually sing and the tracks they sang over were actually performed by musicians. It may not always have been good, but at least there was usually some musical merit to it. What the fuck happened?
I can guarantee you this douche bag will have all but disappeared in a year from now. Are the days of legacy artists all but gone? When is the next Prince, Michael Jackson, Madonna or Frank Sinatra gonna show up and change the landscape of what retards call pop music? Or maybe nobody would care if they did because America’s brainwashed to love this type of horse shit. I’d rather listen to two meth heads buttfuck each other in a goddamn ditch then submit myself to this piss.
Learn to play instruments. Listen to good music (it’s out there, you just have to look). Influence your peers. We must change.
Love,
Noose
Noose is a contributing writer. He likes to rock Schecter guitars and eat burritos. His collection of Nike kicks borders on the ridiculous. This piece originally appeared in his blog, which you can read here.
There’s a new meme running through the music media from one end to the other. You can pick up on it if you watch closely. They are so dead set on “proving” that the internet has democratized the music industry and that web-born stars are the future, that they are actually manufacturing the evidence to support their hypothesis.
A huge amount of their press recently has been dedicated to the “two kids goofing off in the basement make HUGE hit!”….. fairytale that they desperately want to push. They want that to be true so badly that they are constantly foisting “two kids in the basement make HUGE pile of shit” off on the public. Some of the public is not musically sophisticated enough to know the difference.
Unfortunately, I would go further and say most of the public. I’m convinced that if you dangle crap in front of most people’s noses for long enough they’ll eventually convince themselves that they actually enjoy it. And the more people you can dangle it in front of, the easier it will be to do the convincing. It’s a herd mentality. Always.
I won’t lie. It’s a compelling narrative. Too bad it’s a pile of horse shit.
You may very well be right about the publics uncanny ability to swallow crap. What keeps me up at night is the undeniable FACT that American Idol actually IS the most democratic way for someone to obtain a music career! The casting call is open to all comers, for those that make the cut, the results are put to a nationwide vote!
If that’s what democracy does for music, why would anyone support such a concept!
it’s all bullshit. all of it. everyone is drinking the fucking kool-aid. american idol is by no means a viable method for finding, and developing artists. sure, some of these kids can sing, but so what? they are not song writers, most of them do not play instruments, and most of them are selected in the audition process because they make for good t.v. not good music. and the american idol voting public are mostly uneducated, non-musically inclined inbreds. piss on that.
and as far as the myspace/internet electro-pop phenom goes, that’s utter mule shit too. some major label suit somewhere caught wind of it, and decided to blow it up. the end. kool-aid was served, and people drank. now those talentless hacks are laughing all the way to the bank.
Yeah! I would rather lick a blue waffle than listen to this guy’s whinning voice and pathetic lyrics.
“I won’t lie. It’s a compelling narrative. Too bad it’s a pile of horse shit.”
This pretty much sums up how I feel lol. There’s always gonna be some crap pop artist that’s selling a shit ton of records. And behind the scenes, they’ll be lucky if they collect even a quarter of the revenue, the label will lie about how they have a huge “grassroots” following and got signed after years of playing out live and the bs pop artist will keep working their day job in secret. Same story over and over again.
As for the comment about who the next “Prince or Madonna” will be, that’s up to the fans. If people don’t stop downloading records like crazy, the next Prince, Madonna, Beatles, none of that will happen. You can’t create megastars with no income. We got a whole bunch of famous people and that’s it, they got fame. Fame is the new currency in the 21st century music biz.
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well said taylor. fame is the new currency. and fucking how. and it is up to the people to put an end to this garbage. joe music buying public has to figure out sooner than later that this is bad. very bad.