So. Ive come to a conclusion about some things.
The Grammys and getting on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine isnt a well earned honor anymore...it just has been disgraced.
Like, shitty people are being nominated for multiple Grammys, and they dont even belong in that category.
Their putting dumb actors and actresses that dont last another year on the cover of RS.
Back in the day it was a sacred thing to grace the cover and now its always slutty girls with almost no clothes on and their tits hanging out, or some fuckin rapper who is trying to make a come back. And god forbid if a rock artist actually makes it on there, because they usually get the same generic white background band standing together shot. Sometimes they pull one out of their ass and they give a good shot (like the Green Day in Revolutionary War gear...its absolutely one of my faves.) But everytime I see that fuckin normal sized glossy print mag, it makes me choke a little.
People dont even think about where music stemmed from. They just bop along to their little fuckin ear buds and dont pay any homage to the bands that let their little two hit no nothing bands onto the scene, with their generic lyrics and unambitious tracks...where if you really like a song go on fuckin Itunes instead of having to waste 20 bucks on a piece of shit for a single song.
They dont think of the Lennon, Jagger, Daltry, McCartney, Plant, fuckin Morrison. They dont. Because if they did they would fuckin respect the music, and realize that they made everything happen.
Like The Beatles...they knew their influences and mentioned them and knew without them they wouldnt have shit.
Green Day. They cover The Beatles, The Isley Brothers, Op Ivy, The Doors during their concerts. Why?....because they love what they get to do for a living and thank god everyday that those bands did it first.
But what really bugs me is when fuckin rap artists try and put their music on a record. Not classics like NWA. I can respect that. But B.O.B no, sorry, not when in the same breath your stocking shelves with those dumb little cards that allow you to just download it when you get home. FUCK THAT SHIT!
They dont even sound like records anymore. Theirs no chilling eerie-ness that strikes your core. Theirs no draw where you just cant get enough of the crackling.
Im beyond ranting here, and its all because music is being brutally killed in our generation...I cant bear the sight of it anymore.
If this is the rant you mentioned to me earlier, then you were right on. Music is hardly an art anymore. It's more of a Novocain to keep up from thinking and feeling and hearing rather than enhancing our senses and thoughts and feelings like it used to. The magic of going to a store and going to a store and buying an album and sitting on your floor and closing your eyes and listening to it the whole way through is gone.
ReplyDeleteI decided today that I'm canceling my subscription to Rolling Stone when I saw the copy with the cast of true blood naked on the cover. It's not good anymore. It used to be the end all be all of a music magazine, but now it's just average, mediocre even.
Roots don't matter anymore. Where you came from doesn't matter anymore. We're a now generation, and it's a crying shame because when you get to the roots of something, that's when you find what will feed your soul.
A fuckin men!
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