Maybe I’m getting old but it does feel like music has reached the end of the road as far as innovation is concerned. I haven’t heard anything that sounded in any way new since the nineties and bands like the Stone Roses and Happy Mondays. All music since that time has been just more of the same all the time. Songs today are reverting back to when my mother was a teenager and even she likes the chart music of today which is really saying that there is no innovation at all. Where did Punk go? What about challenging the system? Do we really have nothing to look forward to in terms of new music for the rest of our lives?
The X factor is not my cup of tea at all and I believe that Simon Cowell has something to answer for, for what he has done to the music industry. When I hear of a band like Jedward in the charts you have to pity the kids. Music in my day was feared by my parents but today’s music is so bland that parents are probably feeling really sympathetic towards their kids. I admit that the eighties did have Vanilla Ice, but how much worse is it for current bands to be trying to imitate Vanilla Ice. As long as you can get enough people to click on a link you have placed in YouTube, anyone could become a pop idol. Those in the music industry will tell you that it is piracy that is ruining the industry but if truth be known it is the lack of innovation and talent that is causing the problems. For me the only thing worse than listening to Joe McElderry singing would be knowing that I had to pay money for the privilege.
Although I am a big lover of music, the way things are lately have really begun to upset me. Maybe there just is nowhere else that music can go. Maybe everything that can be done has been done. It could even be that future generations will just have to enjoy the same music that we did but with some adjustments.
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