Because I can, and will.
I have been inspired to stand up for art and artists alike forever. To hell with mindless entertainment. To hell with the mockery that is made of music and the human condition. Van Gogh cut his fucking ear off. Beethoven wrote that shit when he couldn't hear it. Chet Baker found a way to play without teeth. I will call you out when I think you have too much make-up on. I will say things about you. I will because I can. I will because everyone else thinks it and smiles and shakes your hand. I will because there is a great deal of history to learn from. I will because there is ignorance. I will be called ignorant for voicing opinions; opinions that will clearly show my lack of ignorance. I will strive for something better all the time, and never stop, because there is always room for improvement. I will ask about what's to come, not what happened. I will show disdain where it is due, and credit will be paid where it's due in ten-fold. That's who I am for now, and that's all I think I will be.
There's a black and white world for me in some regards, and while it may seem trivial, (as it is trivial, I know this,) music and art means a lot to me. It means so fucking much to me that it offends me to see how terrible popular music has become. There used to be shit on the radio that was worth listening to. There used to be musicians that played the music you listened to. I was not here for this, but I know this is true. Being enveloped in both the independent and commercial sides of the music industry day in and day out, I am distraught. How can one justify the packaging and processing that is done to our music? (No doubt it falls in line with the rest of American culture, though.) When you're selling a product, that's all it becomes, a piece of your overhead expenses- a concern for your profits. Popular music has become as deceitful as giving a teenage girl an airbrushed magazine cover and the idea that she should look like she was painted.
The capitalist system is allowing a handful of people decide what you know, and they are fucking thorough. Look at the news, your television programming, the books you never pick up, the radio you can't even turn on for fear of being drowned in Autotune and Melodyne. None of it means anything. All of it is cheap entertainment for the passing moment. Inciting real thought in individuals will create a situation that cannot be managed by the powers that be. I will not be a contributing factor to this vagrant bullshit. People will cling to their purse strings when you threaten to end their game of craps- if you want something that means more than a dollar. Life and passion are not about what someone else decides to sell you, and in return, you accepting it because it's all that you're offered. Ask for more! Strive for something new. Keep things progressing. Embrace change. Break convention. Make things interesting for everyone. That's what we need.
I'm sure you all feel that life can be stagnant, and I just want to help alleviate that for everyone. I just want to be excited and everything to be exciting, and when you can tell how things will turn out, history just repeating itself, people doing the same thing that was done yesterday, that was done ten years ago, it really disappoints me; but it's not disappointment in my fellow man, it's disappointment in the fact that realization of this stagnation comes slow. It's disappointment in knowing that I'm guilty of this too. It's disappointment in the apathy and desensitization that threatens our supposed democratic republic (because these routines in the music industry come from the same behavior in all facets of our society.) Soon enough we just won't care about anything at all, we'll be eating piles of our own shit, sacrificing our first-born, and watching our neighbors do the same on our TV.
So fuck all the noise. Don't believe the hype. That song you're writing in your bedroom that sounds ridiculous is the new sound. Embrace your human condition. Do what you have to do, not what you're obligated to do.
There's a black and white world for me in some regards, and while it may seem trivial, (as it is trivial, I know this,) music and art means a lot to me. It means so fucking much to me that it offends me to see how terrible popular music has become. There used to be shit on the radio that was worth listening to. There used to be musicians that played the music you listened to. I was not here for this, but I know this is true. Being enveloped in both the independent and commercial sides of the music industry day in and day out, I am distraught. How can one justify the packaging and processing that is done to our music? (No doubt it falls in line with the rest of American culture, though.) When you're selling a product, that's all it becomes, a piece of your overhead expenses- a concern for your profits. Popular music has become as deceitful as giving a teenage girl an airbrushed magazine cover and the idea that she should look like she was painted.
The capitalist system is allowing a handful of people decide what you know, and they are fucking thorough. Look at the news, your television programming, the books you never pick up, the radio you can't even turn on for fear of being drowned in Autotune and Melodyne. None of it means anything. All of it is cheap entertainment for the passing moment. Inciting real thought in individuals will create a situation that cannot be managed by the powers that be. I will not be a contributing factor to this vagrant bullshit. People will cling to their purse strings when you threaten to end their game of craps- if you want something that means more than a dollar. Life and passion are not about what someone else decides to sell you, and in return, you accepting it because it's all that you're offered. Ask for more! Strive for something new. Keep things progressing. Embrace change. Break convention. Make things interesting for everyone. That's what we need.
I'm sure you all feel that life can be stagnant, and I just want to help alleviate that for everyone. I just want to be excited and everything to be exciting, and when you can tell how things will turn out, history just repeating itself, people doing the same thing that was done yesterday, that was done ten years ago, it really disappoints me; but it's not disappointment in my fellow man, it's disappointment in the fact that realization of this stagnation comes slow. It's disappointment in knowing that I'm guilty of this too. It's disappointment in the apathy and desensitization that threatens our supposed democratic republic (because these routines in the music industry come from the same behavior in all facets of our society.) Soon enough we just won't care about anything at all, we'll be eating piles of our own shit, sacrificing our first-born, and watching our neighbors do the same on our TV.
So fuck all the noise. Don't believe the hype. That song you're writing in your bedroom that sounds ridiculous is the new sound. Embrace your human condition. Do what you have to do, not what you're obligated to do.