Nothing gets me as riled up as bad music. Well, I take that back. Nothing gets me as riled up as bad music that is passed off as great music.
Exhibit A:
Yesterday I posted the K-Fed video. What a nightmare! There are hundreds of bands who are out there working hard and paying their dues making music that is real, positive, and revolutionary and this yahoo marries a pop princess and gets prime-time airspace to destroy my ear drum with his drivel? What’s that about?
Exhibit B:
Yesterday, MTV Hits dedicated the entire day to P.Diddy’s fake band Danity Kane because their album dropped today. Art and Corporations don’t work together. Ever. Period.
Oh yeah, Exhibit B2 would be that Paris’ “album” dropped today as well.
Exhibit C:
Fergie’s London Bridge
Danity Kane’s Show Stopper
Justin’s SexyBack
The Pussycat Doll’s Buttons
Nelly Furtado’s Promiscuious
All crap songs. All chart dominators.
Well today fellow readers, I stand in great company. Not only am I tired of the junk pumping from America’s speakers but the father of modern music is too.
Who am I? I’m a nobody consumer who spends a great deal of time with my iPod.
Who is the father of modern music? Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan says the quality of modern recordings is “atrocious,” and even the songs on his new album sounded much better in the studio than on disc.”I don’t know anybody who’s made a record that sounds decent in the past 20 years, really,” the 65-year-old rocker said in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine. Dylan, who released eight studio albums in the past two decades, returns with his first recording in five years, “Modern Times,” next Tuesday. Noting the music industry’s complaints that illegal downloading means people are getting their music for free, he said, “Well, why not? It ain’t worth nothing anyway.”
“You listen to these modern records, they’re atrocious, they have sound all over them,” he added. “There’s no definition of nothing, no vocal, no nothing, just like … static.”
Don’t trick yourself into believing that Bob is just some old coot who is pining away for the good old days. He would be the first to tell you that the old days weren’t that good (socially).
No, Mr. Dylan is just a man who has seen a lot of musicians and heard a lot of music that is disposable. He’s tired of.
When will America get tired of it?
Ugh.
This comment comes from the “What Was I Thinking?” category. I posted a couple of weeks ago that I actually liked Furtado’s “Promiscuous” and (God Forbid) even Paris’s “Stars are Blind” chorus is catchy. Please consider this a momentary lapse in judgment, a brain fart if you will. I’ve heard both several more times and have come to the same conclusion as you…junk. Not music at all.
That’s ok Sarah. I can’t tell you how much junky music that I’ve purchased over the years. It is something we do because the music execs are so clever in their marketing that we don’t realize how crappy it is until after a couple of listens. Look at the payola scandels that have reoccured recently. “Play our stuff more so that it looks like a hit and we’ll send you to Hawaii.” To take a line from the Counting Crows: there os nothing but “pills and ashes under (their) skin”