Indie Rant III: Music
I'll just highlight some stuff about music that get on my nerves:
1) The music industry in general. Do you not see a repitition in pop music nowadays? The only thing artists seem to sing about is how their "girl" left them or some boy that they're "crushin on". It pisses me off that people are so enthralled in music schemes that we've heard about, 2.5 millions times. It's gotten to the point that the symbolism of songs (that is if there IS some sort of symbolism in modern music) is so repetative that artists don't even put some thought and emotion in their music: they just spew any crap out of their blow hole that will sell them millions, every few months. I have more respect for artists that put some time, thought, variety and emotion into their music and release an album every five years, then some whiney girl pop artist that releases an album every two months.
I won't get started on rap music. I'm not a big fan of rap, but I do respect some undie rap that talks about the plight of hispanics/blacks in America. Like Immortal Technique. I don't want to hear about some buji gangster talking about how he shot some guy who "disrespected him" and his crew or how he fucked some "heffer".
2) Sellouts. If the music industry wasn't already a load of crap, it becomes even more sh!tty when some respectable artists sells out their unique style in order to enter "the big league". It's okay to try something different every once in awhile, but fans like you because you're not the same as other repetative bullcrap that we have to hear on the radio. We don't want to hear you rap! We want to hear you. and any artists that sells out their individuality in the music industry just to make a couple more thou in one year is truely a disgrace to their fanbase.
3)MTV and VH1 (as well as Black Exploition Television Black Entertainment Television).
...
What happened to the music!?!?!?
Why are they showing everything BUT music now?! I remember back in the day, when MTV actually focused on providing us with new music videos and not footage of some slutty teenager throwing a tantrum at some multi-billion dollar "sweet sixteen", they would show an eclectic variety of music, on the same channel. All the time. Now what? We get a two hour block in the wee hours of the morning and sometime during the afternoon. And they're the same as the radio now: always shooving the same repetative top singles into our eardrums!
No it's on to the listeners...
4)For those of you who listen to international pop, such as Jpop and Kpop, have you ever listened to it at school, have a classmate walk up to you and ask for a listen, and you then give them the headphones only to recieve some wierd, repulsed look on the new listener's face, asking you what langauge the singer is singing in and what the hell they are saying? I don't see what the problem is. Why is it that people give you that wierd social outcast look just because you listen to something in a langauge other than English, or to a lesser extent, Spanish? And why do you have to understand a language in order to listen to it? It's MUSIC: they say that music is the international langauge. When will people get the picture that you don't need to speak/understand a language in order to enjoy the music? And this isn't limited to pop music in Mandarin or Finnish. This also includes traditional music from foreign lands, and also any artist that hasn't been presented on MTV/VH1. Lord forbid you will have the toughest time of all if you listen to world music.
It's a shame that pop music fanatics won't give anything that they haven't been brainwashed to listen to a chance. Will it really kill your eardrums to listen to some classical or new age music for four minutes (or in a classical music sense, that might be extended to ten minutes)?
And if they listen to something in an Asian language, they'll do that ignorant, if not racist, impression of a Chinese person speaking, even if the song is sung in Japanese (and of course, anybody who has listened to music sung in Mandarin, Japanese, Korean, or even Vietnamese can distinguish the difference between all of those).
5)And then there are those people who disgrace you because you don't listen to pop music (and when I say "pop" music, that of course is a reference to popular music, so it can be girly shit, rap, and whiney emo boy bands). And, this includes the whole subculture/ethnicity debate too, mind you. I mean, does a white chick have to listen to Brittney Spears and the Jonas Brother and be a prep all at the same time? And I've run into this in particular a lot: do I have to listen to rap and R&B (though I do like some R&B) just because I'm black chick? And why can't a goth listen to classical if they want to? It's just enforces more stereotypes and sh!t like that.
But to be more on topic, the people who ostracize you for not being "hip to the scene" or whatever, and they actually enforce what I said above.
*****
So, this all ties into my overall detestment of mainstream culture/overrated bullcrap in all media spectrums. If you're like me, it's so hard to find people who share a common - and favorite - interest because most people always want to fit in with everything/one else!!
It really sucks, and, I want to share my music interest with other people, but at the same time, I don't because I already know for the most how people are going to react.
It's ignorant, crappy, lonely, and it sucks.
That's enough for now.
1) The music industry in general. Do you not see a repitition in pop music nowadays? The only thing artists seem to sing about is how their "girl" left them or some boy that they're "crushin on". It pisses me off that people are so enthralled in music schemes that we've heard about, 2.5 millions times. It's gotten to the point that the symbolism of songs (that is if there IS some sort of symbolism in modern music) is so repetative that artists don't even put some thought and emotion in their music: they just spew any crap out of their blow hole that will sell them millions, every few months. I have more respect for artists that put some time, thought, variety and emotion into their music and release an album every five years, then some whiney girl pop artist that releases an album every two months.
I won't get started on rap music. I'm not a big fan of rap, but I do respect some undie rap that talks about the plight of hispanics/blacks in America. Like Immortal Technique. I don't want to hear about some buji gangster talking about how he shot some guy who "disrespected him" and his crew or how he fucked some "heffer".
2) Sellouts. If the music industry wasn't already a load of crap, it becomes even more sh!tty when some respectable artists sells out their unique style in order to enter "the big league". It's okay to try something different every once in awhile, but fans like you because you're not the same as other repetative bullcrap that we have to hear on the radio. We don't want to hear you rap! We want to hear you. and any artists that sells out their individuality in the music industry just to make a couple more thou in one year is truely a disgrace to their fanbase.
3)MTV and VH1 (as well as Black Exploition Television Black Entertainment Television).
...
What happened to the music!?!?!?
Why are they showing everything BUT music now?! I remember back in the day, when MTV actually focused on providing us with new music videos and not footage of some slutty teenager throwing a tantrum at some multi-billion dollar "sweet sixteen", they would show an eclectic variety of music, on the same channel. All the time. Now what? We get a two hour block in the wee hours of the morning and sometime during the afternoon. And they're the same as the radio now: always shooving the same repetative top singles into our eardrums!
No it's on to the listeners...
4)For those of you who listen to international pop, such as Jpop and Kpop, have you ever listened to it at school, have a classmate walk up to you and ask for a listen, and you then give them the headphones only to recieve some wierd, repulsed look on the new listener's face, asking you what langauge the singer is singing in and what the hell they are saying? I don't see what the problem is. Why is it that people give you that wierd social outcast look just because you listen to something in a langauge other than English, or to a lesser extent, Spanish? And why do you have to understand a language in order to listen to it? It's MUSIC: they say that music is the international langauge. When will people get the picture that you don't need to speak/understand a language in order to enjoy the music? And this isn't limited to pop music in Mandarin or Finnish. This also includes traditional music from foreign lands, and also any artist that hasn't been presented on MTV/VH1. Lord forbid you will have the toughest time of all if you listen to world music.
It's a shame that pop music fanatics won't give anything that they haven't been brainwashed to listen to a chance. Will it really kill your eardrums to listen to some classical or new age music for four minutes (or in a classical music sense, that might be extended to ten minutes)?
And if they listen to something in an Asian language, they'll do that ignorant, if not racist, impression of a Chinese person speaking, even if the song is sung in Japanese (and of course, anybody who has listened to music sung in Mandarin, Japanese, Korean, or even Vietnamese can distinguish the difference between all of those).
5)And then there are those people who disgrace you because you don't listen to pop music (and when I say "pop" music, that of course is a reference to popular music, so it can be girly shit, rap, and whiney emo boy bands). And, this includes the whole subculture/ethnicity debate too, mind you. I mean, does a white chick have to listen to Brittney Spears and the Jonas Brother and be a prep all at the same time? And I've run into this in particular a lot: do I have to listen to rap and R&B (though I do like some R&B) just because I'm black chick? And why can't a goth listen to classical if they want to? It's just enforces more stereotypes and sh!t like that.
But to be more on topic, the people who ostracize you for not being "hip to the scene" or whatever, and they actually enforce what I said above.
*****
So, this all ties into my overall detestment of mainstream culture/overrated bullcrap in all media spectrums. If you're like me, it's so hard to find people who share a common - and favorite - interest because most people always want to fit in with everything/one else!!
It really sucks, and, I want to share my music interest with other people, but at the same time, I don't because I already know for the most how people are going to react.
It's ignorant, crappy, lonely, and it sucks.
That's enough for now.