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I've been told to be more to to the point in my diary introductions so here goes:
Pop music is utter shite. |
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Lets have no doubt, Pop is dying.
But in its death throes it is blindy flailing for survival. We've had "Pop Idol" and "Pop Stars" in Britain, "American Idol" in the US and now we are about to be subjected to "Pop Stars 2: the Revenge". My only hope is that this constant stream of talentless wank will persuade many more people to ditch the outdated pop genre and move into the 21st Century. The battle between Rock and Pop has been around for decades. Both genres have changed form immensly over the years. The last era of rock was about 30 years ago, since then pop music has dominated, while rock music has stayed disturbingly quite. I am happy to say that those days are over, soon pop music will face a long disapearance. Pop music, in essence, is talentless. The vast majority of pop stars don't write or play their own music and therefore don't express themselves. Britney Spears sings about pathetic love problems not because it's what she feels, but because she is told to. As for the singing, if you have heard live pop acts sing you will know that many of them are as tone deaf as any rock group. Of course many of them make up for it by miming. But ten years ago what alternative was there for young kids? Dance music, Trance, Techno? Rock was out of the question as it hadn't progressed much from the 70's. However in the mid 90's thanks to bands like Korn, the revolution began. Many people would later call this new brand of rock "nu-metal". However this is too much of a generalisation. Rock nowadays encompasses many sub genres including metal, punk and pure rock which have all independantly revived. In my opinion the Pop industry has helped to destroy itself. By targeting younger and younger kids out of greed, they distanced themselves from older kids who started to regard pop music as for children and began to look for other genres. The revival began in the schools about eight years ago, sure there was some good Rock music before that but it wasn't recognised at the time. But over the last five years I have witnessed more and more kids wearing rock t-shirts and hoodies. Rock stopped becoming what your dad listens to and became something totally different. Metal is the anti-pop. Where pop songs revolve around love and positive emotions, metal songs revolve around hate and negative ones. It's not as bad and depressing as it sounds and some of the most pacifist people I know listen to Disturbed or Mudvayne. It can be quite uplifting believe it or not! For kids fed up with boring, fake boy/girl bands singing about utter tripe, rock music marked a refreshing change. And so now in the year 2002, rock music is about to overtake pop music at last. More publicity and coverage is bound to follow to further spurt the growth. However many rock fans are uncertain about rock becoming popular, will the music industry hijack rock music like they did pop music? It seems pretty certain. Maybe in 10 years time we will be watching "Rock Idol" on TV. I pray that day never happens.
Even so, I welcome the death of pop music as in my opinion it has made the world two dimentional and boring.
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