music cleansing

Noone is going to read my blog.

But that's ok because I shalt have this meager plane of the internet to get some ideas out.

Most likely ideas that will lead my girlfriend to either growl and/or criticize my inability to accept various things.

But genetically speaking, the music world is a mess.

Hidden among layers and layers of utter bullshit lie the diamonds of the various genres and non-genres of the aural universe, waiting for the greedy drill of the true music fan to penetrate and recover.

But until then we are left standing on what ostensibly appears to be crap.

Why is it that people insist on shunning perfectly good, well-crafted songs to pursue what has now because the 10 commandments of the Satanist's Book of Music, the Billboard charts? (Probably an insult to Satanists). What exactly happened to the 60's? Much like a parent of a runaway rebel, where the bloody hell did the music industry go wrong? It seemed to be that the Beatles were, for the longest time, the most popular artists out there. You know it from the first note: culturally significant, experimental, introspective, music, with all of the coveted "catchiness" you could want. But instead we turn to, say...

Who do I get to pick on now?

Britney Spears.

It wouldn't make any sense to compare Britney Spears to the Beatles. But there are loads of girls who write music that sounds a bit like Britney Spears' stuff, but you know, with depth. Rule 1: Noone is ever allowed to write a song about their lives if we've all read it in the shitty tabloids. That includes you, Lohan, you whore. Rule 2: someone needs to unplug ever goddamn turntable and mixer that isn't being used to produce original beats and/or hooks. Hitting a trashcan in 7/4 would make me want to kill myself less than hearing the repetitive, lame beep-beeping of some of these songs.

In fact, the only popular artist right now I can probably commend is Justin Timberlake, for having the balls to associate with black artists and music that much, without looking like a moron. In fact, he's probably blacker than Michael Jackson by now, which, to be fair, isn't saying much.

Is it socially acceptable to say that popular black music went from revolutionary to a cesspool of toxic waste? Or does that make me racist? While the Mos Defs and the Talib Kwelis of the world are sitting in relative obscurity, we have retarded, retarded songs like Hypnotized that girls apparently find oh-so-charming, which makes me think that either the artists who create these kinds of songs are either complete fucking idiots or complete fucking geniuses for wooing over a bunch of white girls with lines involving a whole fucking lot of fucking.

I would like to be reborn in a generation where music was progressive.

Please.



Without political reform to ban some of this stuff, I may die from a musical cancer.