I was just sitting in my office preparing a SEO report for some clients when Justin Bieber came blasting out of the radio from an office diagonally opposite to mine. I quickly shut the door and pondered has the craft of song writing been moved to history.
Think about it in any decade from years gone by. In the 50's you had Elvis, Chum Holly, Johnny Money, Diana Ross & The Supremes, Billie Vacation, Jody Reynolds, Bill Haley and His Comets, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, and Tom Jones, not forgetting Sinatra and all the swing Jazz and blues legends (Ray Charles, Shirley Bassey, Dean Martin, BB King...), infrequently all releasing records at the same time.
In the 60's you had most of these artist's again - longevity wasn't a difficulty as is now - plus The Stones, The Beatles, Pink Floyd and getting away from the UK rock and roll bands, The Doors, Bob Dylan, Janice Joplin, The Beach Boys. The seventies saw The Bee Gee's, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, James Brown, Joni Mitchell, David Bowie, Aretha Franklin, Ac/Dc, Kool & The Gang.
The 80's saw the stuff of legends from Duran Duran, The Smiths, The Stone Roses, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Madonna, Gary Numan, Michael Jackson, Guns N ' Roses, Kiss, Def Leppard, Eurythmics. Then with the 90's we had Nirvana, Radiohead, U2, Prince, The Prodigy, Bon Jovi, Primal Scream, Tu Pac, Soundgarden Pearl Jam.
With the noughties we received Eminem, Coldplay, Foo Fighters, Red Hot Chiil Peppers, 50 Cent, Snow Patrol, Chemical Siblings, Jay Z, Gorrillaz, Queens Of The Stone Age. But wretchedly the modern pop lore at the end of the 2000's has favored ditch rubbish pop. I am not talking about bubblegum pop like the Beach Boys, as their songs have survived the test of time.
But rubbish vocodered trouncing pop songs all about being in "the club" getting it on with someone you've just met. "What's my name" a singing. Who cares. Good music should speak for itself and not brand the vocalists name. Absolutely terrible. Today's music is about celebrity for fame's sake and nothing else. It is a company commodity.
Think about it in any decade from years gone by. In the 50's you had Elvis, Chum Holly, Johnny Money, Diana Ross & The Supremes, Billie Vacation, Jody Reynolds, Bill Haley and His Comets, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, and Tom Jones, not forgetting Sinatra and all the swing Jazz and blues legends (Ray Charles, Shirley Bassey, Dean Martin, BB King...), infrequently all releasing records at the same time.
In the 60's you had most of these artist's again - longevity wasn't a difficulty as is now - plus The Stones, The Beatles, Pink Floyd and getting away from the UK rock and roll bands, The Doors, Bob Dylan, Janice Joplin, The Beach Boys. The seventies saw The Bee Gee's, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, James Brown, Joni Mitchell, David Bowie, Aretha Franklin, Ac/Dc, Kool & The Gang.
The 80's saw the stuff of legends from Duran Duran, The Smiths, The Stone Roses, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Madonna, Gary Numan, Michael Jackson, Guns N ' Roses, Kiss, Def Leppard, Eurythmics. Then with the 90's we had Nirvana, Radiohead, U2, Prince, The Prodigy, Bon Jovi, Primal Scream, Tu Pac, Soundgarden Pearl Jam.
With the noughties we received Eminem, Coldplay, Foo Fighters, Red Hot Chiil Peppers, 50 Cent, Snow Patrol, Chemical Siblings, Jay Z, Gorrillaz, Queens Of The Stone Age. But wretchedly the modern pop lore at the end of the 2000's has favored ditch rubbish pop. I am not talking about bubblegum pop like the Beach Boys, as their songs have survived the test of time.
But rubbish vocodered trouncing pop songs all about being in "the club" getting it on with someone you've just met. "What's my name" a singing. Who cares. Good music should speak for itself and not brand the vocalists name. Absolutely terrible. Today's music is about celebrity for fame's sake and nothing else. It is a company commodity.
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