The Current State of Music

Oh yes. The ever growing debate of the current state of music. To some, the current music is amazing. To others, it's horrible.


Now, I like to link music nowadays to music in the 80s/early 90s. Think, what was happening in the 80s? Hair metal. Metal bands like Poison and Bon Jovi seemed to bring in as many hormonal teenage/early 20s girls. But now, think about this. What is happening to most bands nowadays? Well, most 'pop-punk' bands? Guys are sporting more make-up and more hair products then most of the hormone-driven girls that dream of them. Don't get me wrong, I love guyliner as much as the next person, but I do have my limits.


Now, there's always the old saying for people who hate rap music. "Rap is crap", or they say that rap stands for "Retards Attempting Poetry." Personally, some rap I can deal with and I like. It's mainly rap songs that demean women that I can't stand. We've all seen the video of the rapper with a glass of champagne with 3 or 4 skantally-clad women dressed in a bra and tight as hell booty shorts. It's these songs and videos I cannot stand. However, songs like Ludacriss's Runaway Love I have no problem listening to. You know why? Because it's giving a message. And in the current state of America, we could really use them.


This brings me to rock. I mean all kinds, but I think I'm going to specifiy 'pop-punk' bands because that's what seems to be most popular. Bands like Fall Out Boy, Paramore, and We The Kings. Now, I'm not bashing ANY of these bands because I don't want to offend some people. All I'm going to say is, take a listen to a Bad Religion or a Descendents song. Then listen to a Fall Out Boy song, or a band like them. They sound NOTHING alike, right? It also seems like most songs coming out of these bands are about girlfriends or partying etc. Don't get me wrong, I love party songs, but hearing it over and over and over and over again, it tends to get monotoned and quite frankly boring. Again, I'm not bashing ANY specific bands or types of music, I'm just singling out what I think are the most popular things going on now.


To end this blog, I'm going to quote Green Day's own Mike Dirnt.


"Alot of these bands have the potential to do something and take a stand for it, but they're not, for whatever reason."
Posted on July 2nd, 2008 at 06:42pm

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