...On Music.

After listening to the same shitty song on my workmate’s radio for the third time today (a song I like to call 'the strangled cat song’) I couldn’t help but wonder how we got to a point where good music is no longer something valued or appreciated.

Most of today’s pop music has the following attributes:

1. A singer
2. A beat
3. A gimmick.

Katy Perry’s gimmick is ‘good girl gone bad’. She came straight from Hillsong to kissing a girl and liking it. Does anyone care? Apparently, yes.

Lady Gaga has the ‘I don’t give a shit, I’m just me’ gimmick. Anyone who goes to the effort of wearing coke cans in their hair and putting on a meat dress is hardly just being themselves.  The whole ‘I’m so freaking controversial’ thing has been done before. Bugger off.

The thing that pisses me off most about the music of today (I'm so elderly) is that just the singer is given all the focus. We don't appreciate proper bands anymore.

Real music has the following attributes:

1. Musicians (more than one),
2. Talent, and
3. Passion.

Real music comes from a collaboration of talented artists doing what they do best. The meaningless drivel coming from the likes of singers such as Katy Perry and Lady Gaga isn’t music; It’s a marketing ploy. The fact that this crap is pumped out by the radio stations on a daily basis is a sad sign of modern society’s lack of appreciation for skill and talent.