I'd love to take all you who say this asinine sentence and punch you in the face repeatedly for the length of your favorite "old" song. There is not a chance that music today all sounds the same it can't because there is so much of it out there you can't hear it all so you can't know that. That is the first point the next one is that the influences of today's musical art draws from many ethnic or folk music from countries all over the world. You can get an artist like Norah Jones who injects styles and pieces from Jazz to African tribal music to straight up New Wave into her music. She has more things going on her albums than most people have ever heard in their entire lives.
We now have Indie Rock which is more so an explosion of styles in its most organic form that draws from Brit Pop, Lo-Fi and Classic Alternative with much folk inspiration. There are of course a lot of Indie Rock artists who use the New Romantic sounds of New Wave to paint within their idea of the genre. My belief is that at some point in your life people just stop listening to new music so their ears don't understand how music evolves. When you are stuck in 1958 and all you listen to is music on the oldies station then obviously you can't come close to understanding what Progressive Rock is as your audio definition would be obscured by the thrusting guitars and swelling keyboards and soaring vocals.
How in the hell can someone say music today is all about taking off your clothes and girls giving it up to guys? That comment is why this post has happened. I just couldn't vent on my friends Facebook post because I want to continue being friends. That moron must only hear Top 40 radio and what little music video stations play. How can you hear a song like "Living Dead" by the crafty and awesome Marina & The Diamonds and say such ludacris crap.
I'm living dead only alive
When I pretend that I have died
I haven't lived life, I haven't lived love
Just a birds eye view from the sky above
I'm dead I'm living dead
When I pretend that I have died
I haven't lived life, I haven't lived love
Just a birds eye view from the sky above
I'm dead I'm living dead
Now as you begin to pull your head out from your ass and clean the shit out of your ears asshat you should be able to decipher that the song is much more steeped with meaning and has nothing to do with such shallow and daft ideas. Sure there are pop and hip-hop that plays repeatedly in that sort of mind set but that's pop music and 90% of it is geared towards young dumb and stupid along with club kids who are probably looking for just that to happen in real life.
Even in the 80's which was a great decade for music as it opened up to many different styles and genre's had music that people said the same bullshit about and it pissed me off just as much but back then I just told whomever to let go of my ears I know what I'm doing. The tools that can't leave the 70's and the bell bottom rock of Nazareth, Lynard Skynard and Steppenwolf haven't even experienced those bands properly because all they know about them is their hit singles. Oh yeah "Born To Be Wild" is Steppenwolf's greatest song um no it's not even close and don't go anywhere near "Magic Carpet Ride" as its not the best of them either. They had so many other songs known as album cuts to you old dust crusties like Monster/Suicide/America which was track one from the 1969 masterpiece Monster.
I look at bands like Great White who couldn't get noticed for the most part but after "Once Bitten Twice Shy" broke through to the mainstream suddenly all their old albums started moving big numbers and people were actually giving them a chance. Now they are cool because they are old but when they were current you called them shit and compared them to Led Zeppelin and others. Don't say you didn't because that's a lie and you know it. Very few actually owned their albums before that song made them a household name and then you bought it because it sounded similar to Zep but in all actuality they sound very little like Zep and more like Mott The Hoople and Sammy Hagar's old band Montrose.
How about how when Rap music broke, the same bullshit prophecy and sneering was all over it but now you love old school but not the new stuff because the new stuff isn't as good. Well if you actually listened to the new stuff you'd find great music from Ludacris, Nicki Minaj and LL Cool J who's still making new music. Not all of the Hip-Hop/Rap of today is cursing and demeaning woman there are really great fun songs in the genre albeit very sexual lyrically which when you look where it comes from and who it is marketed to that is what those youthful folks are looking for. You can't find any worse than NWA or 2 Live Crew because they did it all and did it first, not well and nowhere on the level Eminem takes their schtick to in the 2000's but hey I guess you hate Eminem too.
When you put down great bands like Collective Soul with this sort of fatuousness you are showing that you speak with no knowledge of topic in which you are spewing negative comments about. The assumptions in this path of which you walk have so many holes in it that I'm not sure how a black hole of stupidity doesn't consume you. Look at how different Nirvana is from Soundgarden or Stone Temple Pilots and tell me they sound the same and I would be forced to smack in the back of your head. Those three bands all considered Grunge sound nothing a-like and never in a million years could be confused for Adele. So I say next time you hear someone say that ask them why they are so close minded and ignorant (yes in the proper meaning) about something they obviously have no fucking clue about then tell them to fuck off and buy a brain that works.
See I love music even old music but I don't try to kid myself that it is impossible to make nothing but shit in current era. That's just ridiculous and is the reason why you are "A Fucking Moron!" as the title suggests. If music was all the same today why does Jessie J. have huge hit singles around the world and then Gotye's number one or soon to be everywhere exist, neither artist having songs about getting naked in a nightclub and girls giving it up to some guy. I suggest those of you who haven't actually explored music for the last ten or twenty years get your fingers hitting the keys on that keyboard moving along to Rdio or one of the other music subscription community sites and start listening with an open mind. The discovery will be amazing and you might actually be able to have an opinion that doesn't prove you to be a dark ages reject who thinks that only old things are good.
Music might be subjective but it is my life blood and is my only real passion that encompasses all aspects of my life. I can pretty much place a song or music experience to every memory I have and new music keeps me moving forward I don't get stuck in the past where people get old. I will be 80 one day and I'm pretty sure I will still be on top rocking along with the newest music genre's and trends because my brain will stay young as I continue to learn and love the greatest invention on planet earth, music. There is nothing better than hearing something I've never heard before and falling in love all over again and again and again.
Keep On Rock'n!
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