|
Has anybody listened to some of radio
stations playing popular music
lately? If you have, may I ask WHY? Radio stations of late have three
major problems: 1: they play more commercials than music, 2: the
deejays talk too much, 3: they play music for wussy girls. I know I’m
going to get a lot of flak for that last one, so I’d better get it out
of the way quick: it is my opinion that the quality of current popular
music blows big hairy chunks. For one thing, the gender ratio among
bands has flip-flopped so that now there are far more female lead
singers than there are male ones. Forgive me for being a guy, but a
bunch of girls whining about their love lives just doesn’t do it for
me. Their irritating crooning fails to evoke any emotional response
from me. What really gets me, though, is the guy bands. They all
sing like girls too! They have somehow managed to erase all traces of
masculinity in their voices and even in the songs themselves. (Some
of them even look like girls, though I will not go so far as to
actually name the blond trio that achieved popularity off of a song
called "Mm-Bop.") Whatever happened to the good old days of hard rock
and alternative, when you couldn’t understand what the singer was
saying, and when you did, the lyrics made no sense? Man do I miss
that. The overall quality of singing and lyricism may not have been
that high, but the music was there. You could feel the anger and
frustration inherent in the sounds, which were much darker and
meaningful that those of today. You couldn’t be sure what the meaning
of the song was, but you knew there was one.
The second major problem with the radio has to do with commercialism. Sure, this is America, you can’t escape it, but as far as the radio is concerned it’s far worse than it used to be. There are some radio stations when fully half the time you turn them on, they’re playing commercials instead of music. And if they’re playing music, you’ve probably got until the end of that song or the next before they throw more commercials at you. Between this and the lack of good music to be found, there is already plenty of reason to shy away from the radio, but one thing remains... ...The idiot deejays. Why on earth do they think for one minute that we care anything about who they are or what they have to say? I mean, if they were even vaguely interesting I could live with them, but they insist on wasting our time by exposing their views of the world, which I find intensely boring. Listen man, nobody wants to hear you talk, so just play the damn CD’s, okay? That’s what you get paid to do. Nobody’s interested in your love life (or lack thereof). So, those are my feelings on modern radio. I may not be quite up to date, seeing as how I never intentionally listen to it anymore, but I still get enough spillover from other people’s boom boxes and retail stores that I feel qualified to write on the subject. And man, did that feel good.
|
writings |
jokes |
brain |
sparkyville