I have been an avid music fan ever since i could talk and now it seems the industry has ran out of original ideas. I mean, throughout the decades music has undergone a number of changes to what is considered talent. In the sixties it was all about being 'psychadelic' and the humble beginnings of bands such as The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. In the seventies it was about getting as much feedback from an amplifier with an electric guitar as possible. For example: Queen, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zepplin etc. And in the eighties it was about being smart, having loads of money and using synthetic sounds on every track you produce. And then the nineties came and so did Oasis, along with the renewed laddish movement coined originally with the stones but then abandoned during the over-franchised eighties.
But today it seems as though we are back tracking. We over glorify karaoke singers and buy re-releases of old songs that are never sung as well as the original. And a lot of bands today are moving back in time. For example: Franz Ferdinand(80s), The Darkness (70s) and the Libertines (who seem to drift between the 70s and 90s).
Also, what really got on my nerves was the fact that a girl group, manufactured on television no less, can get a number 1 single for 'Eternal Flame' originally sung by The Bangles. What's going on? In my opinion, the only style that is really going anywhere is the hip-hop industry. But then again, it's starting to merge with pop music to create Hip-pop, with the likes of Beyonce and Mary J Blige.
Come on!!! Let's get creative!!!
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Did you think i said "understood" as some sort of higher meaning? I only said i understood because i realised what happened in your story. Maybe you think a little too much for your own good sometimes?
Or maybe not? What do I know?
ah now i get you. It was just the way you worded it it seemed as though it was directed at my last comment.
I also write with something a little different. I'm not really myself. I am someone different. My name IS Adam and I am from England, but as soon as i start to write, someone else grows inside and finishes. I create characters and use different world perspectives to create personalities and use their voice instead of mine.
And, to be honest, I only use this blogger site as a means to entertain myself between working. I use this site (and a number of other thing such as music) to keep myself sane in this boring environment. And it works too!
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