tic tok

so i guess the mood struck me out of boredom. i still don't know what motivated me to drink. was i feeling depressed? did i want to know what it tasted like? i already know what beer tastes like, and damn is it bitter.

i guess my musing tonight comes from the shit music i've been hearing for the past 10 years. it was good all through the 90's and some into the 00's, but seriously, the songs i hear these days. they're such utter crap. it shows that anyone can write a song and be a big hit even without talent. look at ke$ha. her hit single tic tok is a load of crap, but people eat this shit up. sure, it's catchy, but the lyrics are about drinking and having sex with really ugly men, and ke$ha can't sing for shit. her voice is all synthetic and auto-tuned. kinda like madonna in a way, but way less classy.

anyway. it just goes to show that you can just speak a bunch of lines that sound good, add a cool backbeat to them and then get to the top 40 in less than a week. but what about the real musicians out there? the ones who actually practice playing and write their songs and have deep meanings? where are they? why aren't they on the top 40?

most of the good music these days are found in the underground music scene. it's almost that by chance a word of them spoke out and then they become a blip on the radar. then they money flows in and they become a sellout. happened with a lot of rock bands (fall out boy, who?) and i guess it's their 15 minutes of fame being milked out for 1 or 2 "good" songs that they wrote. what blows my mind is how the songs that come on the radio are actually the worst songs they have ever written. take fall out boy's dance dance for example. terrible song. they were experimenting with a new style (more modern?) and they failed. i'd much prefer that the radio picked their song, bang the doldrums instead. it's a more interesting song and it has more musical value (listen to that 3 against 2 in the drums). a much better song, but never played on the radio.

so it just seems to me like the ear of modern times is now dwindling down. people make crap music and play it as a hit (except for lady gaga, she's the only one that can actually sing). i guess our ears evolved to hear a more electronic sound so that we don't notice which is a real voice and which is a synthetic voice.

overall. music just sucks these days