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dream_labyrinthwhat's wrong with music these days. I mean the stuff you get on the radio and the rare times MTV and VIVA actually live up their aim of being music television.
We just had Dragostea din tei, a conpletely senseless but funny Romanian song. Perfect for summer. In the charts twice. The original that was only popular in Romania when in came out last year, and a cover by a Romanian-born woman living in Italy. Who kind of made it look like a serious song, which sucked.
The original version had been top of the German charts for 14 weeks, the cover version was in the top ten for a while but was gotten rid of several weeks ago.
And now, as that song is finally not on 1 anymore, there is another double song. It's called Obsecion, and again, one version 5th and one 1st. Scary.
As for the rest, there are the fighting women, best represented by Anastacia at the moment. I really like Sick & tired. And there are the whining men. I don't wanna know, Fuck you, I don't want you back, what's wrong with these guys? Incidently, the second song got us another funny story from the music business, as his ex-girlfriend wrote lyrics to the same melody to get her side of the story out. Named Fuck you right back. Of course, he made money from that, too. And now he came up with Fuck you right back back. Nobody say these people suffer from lack of imagination.
But back to the whining, is that really something anybody wants to hear? If your girlfriend sleeps around, dump her or deal with it, but don't bother us with writing a friggin song about it!
And then all these small kids. Teenagers who were either "discovered" in some kind of Starsearch thing or just knowing people in the right places. And as if that wasn't bad enough, they need to cover really good songs. The Preluders (the girlgroup of a casting competition that had boys against girls) lost all my support when they decided to abuse Losing my religion. This song was not meant to be sung by a bunch of kids whose greatest problem in life is whether this year's boots can be worn with next year's pants.
I've pretty much given up on radio. I copy my favorite CDs on tape to listen to in the car, and there is one radio station where chances are high you get some good music. Everytime that happens, it makes me feel like a gold digger who just found something sparkly. Maybe you hit it big, but maybe it's just this grain.
We just had Dragostea din tei, a conpletely senseless but funny Romanian song. Perfect for summer. In the charts twice. The original that was only popular in Romania when in came out last year, and a cover by a Romanian-born woman living in Italy. Who kind of made it look like a serious song, which sucked.
The original version had been top of the German charts for 14 weeks, the cover version was in the top ten for a while but was gotten rid of several weeks ago.
And now, as that song is finally not on 1 anymore, there is another double song. It's called Obsecion, and again, one version 5th and one 1st. Scary.
As for the rest, there are the fighting women, best represented by Anastacia at the moment. I really like Sick & tired. And there are the whining men. I don't wanna know, Fuck you, I don't want you back, what's wrong with these guys? Incidently, the second song got us another funny story from the music business, as his ex-girlfriend wrote lyrics to the same melody to get her side of the story out. Named Fuck you right back. Of course, he made money from that, too. And now he came up with Fuck you right back back. Nobody say these people suffer from lack of imagination.
But back to the whining, is that really something anybody wants to hear? If your girlfriend sleeps around, dump her or deal with it, but don't bother us with writing a friggin song about it!
And then all these small kids. Teenagers who were either "discovered" in some kind of Starsearch thing or just knowing people in the right places. And as if that wasn't bad enough, they need to cover really good songs. The Preluders (the girlgroup of a casting competition that had boys against girls) lost all my support when they decided to abuse Losing my religion. This song was not meant to be sung by a bunch of kids whose greatest problem in life is whether this year's boots can be worn with next year's pants.
I've pretty much given up on radio. I copy my favorite CDs on tape to listen to in the car, and there is one radio station where chances are high you get some good music. Everytime that happens, it makes me feel like a gold digger who just found something sparkly. Maybe you hit it big, but maybe it's just this grain.
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Date: 2004-09-13 01:34 pm (UTC)My world has begun to revolve around itunes, where I can listen to the same favorite songs over and over again, mixed into various permeations of the same actual set of songs on a CD.
And yet...there are still those lyrics I feel like I couldn't live without, that can pick me up or just make me feel like I'm not the only one who's been put in certain situations. (Which is maybe why all my entry titles are named after songs? Unintentional. But the titles usually do, looking back on them, seem to correspond to the entries. Interesting.)
Young people are, for the most part, too inexperienced in the world to be good artists. They should all be stopped.
And I think you should pursue the HP fanfic, as this particular plotline is fascinating.
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