Video Killed The Radio Star.....On Second Thought, Maybe It Was Ke$ha....

"Forsake not an old friend; for the new is not comperable to him: a new friend is as new wine; when it is old, thou shall drink it with pleasure."
-Ecclesiastes 4:10






sup fool.




today the text box will be filled with the same thing that fills my ears everyday. and no, it's not the thousands of screaming girls outside my window anxiously awaiting my next blog post all the while offering to have my babies....that's what earplugs are for.

i was referring, of course, to music. i love it. i love everything about it. except bieber...but then again calling that music is giving him entirely too much credit. but this is the point of my post today....

WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO MUSIC??????????????????

when i was a kid, there was a time where i could turn on the radio and know who was singing. there was a time where actual singing talent was worth something. there was a time where a money took a backseat to melody.

im sad to say folks...that's gone.

it's hard to know who's singing when everyone sounds the same. it's hard when everyone would rather sound like an Auto-Tuned robot bent on total domination of originality. its hard when nobody knows enough about musical arrangement to realize that the only time two notes in a melody ever worked was beethoven's fifth symphony. but however, i cannot lay the blame for the sad state of affairs we call popular music solely at the feet of those creating the music for i know their 15 minutes are almost up.

tik tok, ke$ha....tik tok.

the blame also goes to today's consumer, so ignorant of the music that came before that the music of today is all he or she knows. i can count on one hand the amount of kids today just can't get enough of Depeche Mode or whose Third Eye isn't Blind or said Yes to the Rush one experiences when going to hear a Symphony X at the Dream Theater in Kansas....i've had a lot of time to think about this.

for a while it felt like i would have to pull a don mclean and write about the day the music died.

and then it hit me.

what is the point of music? why do we listen to music? what is the purpose of it? we can discuss the nuts and bolts and mechanics of it for hours on end, but it all comes back to one thing...music moves people. it is designed for us to feel something. more specifically, it is made to make people happy. so what if it completely defies what music theory was designed to create? if it makes somebody smile, then it's done its job. and somewhere down the line i lost sight of that and i know many others have as well. i became so fond of what was that i didn't see what is. i may not love what comes out, but what i do love is that it makes people move, and that it makes people smile. so in that respect, i'm sorta okay with the music of today.








....but i still hate justin bieber with every fiber of my being.





that's all i got for now. if you like what you read comment please.


l8r.