11 December 2011

REGARDING THE STATE OF MUSIC TODAY...the chart toppers suck


My dad Bpops and I were having a discussion today about music...he mentioned Glee,American Idol, etc and how those entities were misguiding people...my response was "yeah, huge corporate entities are devouring music from one end as legitimate ARTISTS are building a levee on the other"(I'm paraphrasing here but you get the point). He responded by saying that he couldn't think of a time in his life that some people didn't bitch about popular music and how some small corner of the music world was better and underrated. He went on to admit that he is a fan of LADY GAGA, acknowledging that alot of her music is genius sometimes obscured by all the artifice and stage-witchery....

I do know that many people in the Augusta area dismissed THE BEATLES out of hand at first blush....technology considered, "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" is not that far removed from "Papparrazzi"...a catchy verse followed by a rock solid hook...it's POP music after all....and truth be told, LADY GAGA is a very skilled musician....

I have two responses to that idea....well, really three because LADY GAGA irritates me with all her bullshit costumes....so number 2-one difference between THE BEATLES in their moptop days and GAGA at any point in her career is THE BEATLES could put their hands to instruments as a UNIT and reproduce their recorded music in a live setting without much of a discernable loss in quality...by and large, LG's music is manufactured by computers(and her stupid outfits are fashioned by demons posing as people who enjoy having a laugh at their client's expense...but i'm quite sure they sell it with flurry of pixie dust,a limp wrist and a "you GO girl, that outfit is utterly FAB-O")...number 3 in my response to Bpops requires a new paragraph because I intend to ramble...

ahem....number 3-with regard to musical talent among the current crop of popular artists charting on Billboard today(less of a REAL measuring stick of musical success than it has EVER been), NONE of them has half the talent(with regard to singing,songwriting, or performance) that is contained within the membership of any number of unsigned bands in THIS town or any other in the U.S. LMFAO has become famous with the most cloying,inane and half-assed attempt at even ATTEMPTING to make something that resembles music...I'm amazed that those idiots can tie their own shoes. JUSTIN BEIBER sings Christmas songs to his "shawty"...and he's WHITE....if only I had a large explosive device I could plant in the midst of the MTV Europe Music Awards show, I'd die a happy drummer.

Now I do realize that the very same year that NIRVANA broke, NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK was a hot act....and I realize that one of the best selling artists this year ADELE is the real deal....what alarms me these days is the absence of rock and roll....the absence of GUITARS....what encourages me is the fact that the guitars have not gone silent, they are still blazing....along with real drums and drummers and vocalists that don't NEED autotune....they have found safe harbor in genres that don't bust the charts under current musical trending(the vast majority of people who proclaim themselves "music lovers" just want to fist pump and dry hump in the club....Gym,Tan,Laundry=giant orange douchebag...)...genres like Americana,Metal,Indie Rock,Punk, etc. have not forgotten the power of that gigantic open E chord....and rarely is the term "shawty" uttered there....

Stak


P.S. who else finds GAGA repulsive?...