Once upon a time, for the sake of this story, let's say...fifty years ago, you needed two things to be a musician: a musical instrument, preferably guitar, and talent. Looks were important then too, but if you sucked, you got called out for it. If you wanted to get popular, you'd play on the nightclub circuit and if you sucked, they killed your career dead before it started. The A & R guys would be in the back of the joint and if you were good, you'd have a deal and be on the radio in fifteen minutes. That's how the Stones did it, that's how The Beatles did it, that's how Janis, Jimi, Jim, Skynyrd and Zep did it.
Twenty-five years later, shortly after the apparent 'suicide' of Kurt Cobain, a new phenomenon happened. Britney Spears, fake tits and all, decided to get some computer help with singing. She can sing a little bit, but not without major touching, but no one cared, she had big tits. Jessica Simpson followed in her wake, while on the other side of the gender divide, NSYNC and Backstreet Boys were buying up all the hair gel in the known world. No one of these motherfuckers could sing, but as long as they had washboard abs, and a computer to fix shit with on the fly, again, no one cared.
What a lot of people realized, but wrote off as coincidental, 90% of the successful pop singers of the nineties (and even now) came from the Disney Channel. To illustrate my beef, and to give you guys some context, Michale Jackson, Frank Sinatra, Bobby Darin and Dean Martin were the pop singers of their day, compared to Britney Spears, Christina Aguilara, Hanna Montana and whatever that jailbait witch from Waverly Place's name is.
With all that said, I have a couple questions:
How the hell did Disney Channel take over the music game?
Why doesn't the radio play anything good anymore?
Do people actually know how to sing or play instruments, or are they quickly taught and filled in with computers?
Why are people in general stupid enough to buy into this
If I were to start a musical revolution, who would join me?
1 comment:
I'd rather commit suicide than make "pop" music, too.
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