Title: The Truth About Popular Music Source:
Information Liberation/YouTube URL Source:http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=54193 Published:Feb 26, 2016 Author:Paul Joseph Watson Post Date:2016-02-26 13:28:38 by Deckard Keywords:None Views:910 Comments:6
The music industry has obliterated originality, brainwashing us with dumbed-down lyrics and homogenized sounds produced by computer algorithms, performed by programmed robots.
Watch this shocking video to discover how we’ve been indoctrinated to consume terrible music.
The guy makes a lot of good points about the popular music of today. I can see and hear Taylor Swift,Beyonce,or some other musical drone do a number on tv (no way do I go searching out that crap),and within seconds of the song ending I honestly can't recall a single lyric. it's like those minutes are a time void that was inserted into my life to steal time from me.
Still,really,really good music from the 50's and earlier was mostly about trivial every day stuff,not Hannibal crossing the mountains. Truthfully,that profound stuff didn't show up until the late 60's to early 70's.
Here are a couple of examples of typical good 50's music that isn't profound,but nobody that heard it ever forgot it. They knew they had spent those few minutes well.
BTW,the first time I saw The Eagles was in the very early 70's in Norfolk,Va. A place that maxed out at about 12,000 people,and they were just 1 or 2 acts. Linda Rheostat opened for them. This was the first reserved seat concert I even went to,and I thought the event people walking the aisles and telling people to sit down hampered the joy a dab. The Eagles played every damn song they had recorded,and when they came back on stage for their encore,they opened with Chuck Berry's "Promised Land". "Hello operator,give me Norfolk,Va,Tidwater 4309. Tell the folks back home it's the promised land calling,and the poor boy is on the line."
I have never seen a place explode like that. Hippies were ripping chairs up from the floor and throwning them up against the wall to make room to dance. It was more than the sport coated arena staff could deal with,and they wisely ran for their lives and weren't seen again until the Eagles ended their final set. Entirely spontaneous,too. it happened all over the arena at the same time.
And here are a couple of modern ladies that have sold some music that is about lost love,the most personal thing going. Not real profound,but music as fine as music has ever been anywhere,at any time.
IMO,there is something wrong with anyone who isn't in awe of Adele.
I feel the need to apologize to people like Taylor Swift and Beyonce for comparing them to Adele. That's like comparing a couple of water-saturated ladyfinger firecrackers to thermo-nuclear weapons. I am sure they are fairly normal women that aren't mass murderers or baby rapists,so the comparison may be a little unfair to them.
I can see and hear Taylor Swift,Beyonce,or some other musical drone
I confess to actually liking some of Taylor Swift's stuff when I first heard her on the radio. I do agree with you about Adele.
I haven't really listened to music on the radio in years. This guy's rant is right on. Even the "oldies" stations (here anyways) have such limited playlists you end up hearing the same 100 or so songs over and over.
I just discovered this band, the BellRays (kind of a cross between soul and punk).
