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If this ain't good music, then how do we get out?

Where the heck has good music gone? This conversation topic comes up a lot with me lately, but it's tough because at the same time I'm complaining, I'm still listening to the crap on the radio and singing along with it. I think I've talked about this before on here, but it was more geared towards music today versus 60's music. Now I just want to address music in general.

When I heard Adele "Rolling In The Deep" on the radio, I stopped in my tracks. Boy, does that girl have some pipes on her! Her music has soul, feeling, you can hear that she puts her heart into it. After her song ended, Kesha came on. Why is Kesha popular? Supposedly she broke into a popular artist's house and pursued what she wanted. But what exactly did she want? Three fourths of her singles have been about going to the club, getting trashed, sleeping in cars, and flirting with guys with beards. Catchy? Sure. Good? That is to be determined.

Black Eyed Peas. What's up with them? Their "futuristic" music is the same as everyone elses. More computerized, synchronized and technical than they have been in the past. Let's take a look at some lyrics from Avril Lavigne's "What the Hell?"

-All my life I've been good but now,
I'm thinking 'What the hell'
All I want is to mess around,
and I don't really care about
If you love me, If you hate me,
You can't save me-

Now look at "Savior" by Rise Against

-It kills me not to know this but I've all but just forgotten
What the color of her eyes were and her scars or how she got them
As the telling signs of age rain down, a single tear is dropping
Through the valleys of an aging face that this world has forgotten-

There are actual thoughts and feelings in those words, something people can relate to. People can relate to Avril's I guess, but it's just so juvenile. So why is the rift between great and poorly made music becoming bigger? I think the availability of music has a lot to do with it. Artists feel the need to produce quantity, not quality these days. You hear a song on the radio for the first time, you can go home, download it illegally and put it onto your iPod in the next 5 minutes. You listen to the song, tire of it, onto the next. We are the "now" generation and it's ruining our attention spans.

So next time you're singing along to Chris Brown's post-Rihanna beating, pro-party theme with the extremely creative title "Yeah 3x," just ask yourself, could I have waited 5 more minutes for a better song to be recorded?
The video is bizarre...don't pay attention to that (how can you not?)

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