Music is sick.
Sure there are little gems of bands out there, and some I do rather enjoy, but the entire landscape is a mess.
Enter iTunes.
A la carte has confused all genre and nobody really knows what they like anymore. Back in the day, let's say the 80's, it was obvious by ones style, what kind of music someone was into -or- if someone was to ask you "what kind of music do you listen to?"
How would you answer?
Be honest, were you a rocker or a waver? Did you like country, heavy metal, punk, top 40?
There was no confusing those lines.
Enter 2012 and what kind of music do you listen to?
Now how would you answer?
Music is sick, Hipsters make it worse, all genres are top 40, punk is dead, metal is pussy, and there are so many sub-genres it could make you want to scream.
Listen, if you want to be different, then by all means, be different. But don't make something up to sound different just to be the same .... That's not different, it's just stupid.
Folk music on alternative playlists, country on pop, punk on top 40, rap in metal and too many crossovers.
Music is sick - and it is sick because it has no identity.
This article made me think. It hits on the very tip of a problem iceberg that is just waiting to sink individualism. Its not just music. Its us. Its Humanity. We are all the same, anyone can be an expert on anything in 20 minutes of googleizing. We have killed the individuals. "and then, when everybody is special. No one will be"
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