Why Do We Care?

It's 2010. We can see relatively far into the depths of the universe, technology is far beyond what we could have ever imagined and Branson has created a company that allows ordinary members of the public (for a small fortune) to fling themselves into space. People of this century should be sitting in their arty, but highly uncomfortable furniture, lit by the glow of the iPhone, iPod, computer screen and HD TV, patting ourselves on the back for being so clever with so little intelligence.


Instead, we criticize tweeny-pops like Justin Bieber.


I have realised recently that I'm a music snob. You know how you get food snobs? You see them on the TV all the time - those people that will not eat anything unless they can find at least fifty adjectives to describe it and if all the ingredients are picked five minutes before they eat it. Yeah, them. Well, I'm pretty much the same, just with music.


I like music to be emotive. Everything from the lyrics, right through to the infrequent 'ding' of the triangle should tell me something about the artist.  After all, if music is no longer to express inner emotion, then really, what is the point? So it really breaks my heart when I hear songs that go something like "she's indecisive, she can't decide" blah blah blah blah "shawty is an eenie-meenie-minie-mo lover". 


Oh, and remember long ago when the beat of the song used to change according to the mood? That's a thing of the past. Now it's all "boom boom SCREECH SCREECH boom boom" and contains pretty much no imagination or emotion. It's just an endless string of synthesized sounds with soulless lyrics dubbed over them.


I don't have a problem with all new music. There are artists that can use the synthesized nature of their songs to create real art. Musicians like Lady Gaga still manage to make amazing music with an electronic beat. You can tell that the songs aren't superficial, which is what I'd classify most of the music on the radio nowadays. There is hope.


So maybe music is heading into lame new era, but come on people - it's up to the true musicians out there to change it. So stop complaining about Justin Bieber's girly voice and hair and pick up a guitar or something.


That is all.

I couldn't resist putting this picture on though...