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Well we have departed from the age of live music...where to be any good and get any fame you had to be a player performer and writer of note.....nowadays thanks to reality TV any kid dragged of the streets can be a star....albeit for fifteen minutes till they drag someone else in to be a replacement....yes todays music is mainly disposable mass produced crap.....yes the public are stupid, tasteless and gullible... yes like sheep they follow their peers and buy into the hype and marketing....yes the industry is controlled by a few suits whose say is final....yes they do not really want anything clever or innovative or anything that poses as a threat to their little comfy world of karaoke type covers sung by pretty tone deaf kids.....yes we all have knobs and sliders in our own homes that yesterdays musicians could only dream of having albeit only in a top studio.....
WHY I ask?.....I am at a loss to understand why we allow ourselves to be controlled and WHY we indulge in this crap where the cream does not rise.....there is plenty of talent out there...just a shame it never seems to get any recognition or exposure.
I have said it before and will say it again...."we have been bombarded with so much crap we have come to accept it and even hail it as being something special".....I am convinced that todays youth are incapable of identifying talent or appreciating or even listening to proper music......as long as it is noise and has a beat and is considered cool they buy it....they do not have a mind of their own.....I was watching a chat show where Gaga was a guest...the audience were getting hysterical and screaming in anticipation when she was introduced....I was disgusted......no need to get that hysterical she is bad but not that bad I thought....then in she waltzed with her clothes straight out of some kids dressing up box......the audience went wild.....I just laughed.....Then the laugh changed to respect....I thought what a clever piece of hype and exhibitionism.....to get that amount of reaction when you have so little talent takes some doing......she should not be censured....instead the fans should be ashamed of themselves for being so gullible and stupid.
We can only do one of two things.....either dumb down and compete with the morons or cater for more discerning folk who DO appreciate good music.
I played one of my songs to my neighbours kid she is 21 and hangs aroud with my daughter quite a lot. Whilst she quite liked it I could see it was not her cup of tea.... however she was very impressed with the other stuff she had heard me play that day......I was puzzled what other stuff did she mean...it turns out that the "other stuff" was just me mucking about with some disco beats, loops and pre sets for a jingle I was working on.......sad to think that a simple sample with a repeat button being pressed was preferred to a song that had taken a while to write and record......