What is music becoming today?, Is music really staying true to its claim to the "Pure" artfor Options

[Vaguememory]

So, I've been hearing allot of things over the last couple of years. The music industry is falling to shambles. With album sales dropping, and people stealing music, and the internet growing; it seems as if the whole music industry is about to crumble. Also now more than ever we've got bands that are making music not because they love it, but because they wanted it for the money and the sex and the drugs that older bands sung about, when in actuality these bands were just singing it but they were doing music because music was their life.

To me, music is an outlet; an escape so to speak, something that helps me keep my head together when something gets me down, or I'm just so darned happy I can't express myself in words, but someone else can with their music. Music to me, is a pure art form. It's something that can be so much more honest than anything else in the world. When music hits you, it does not hurt you or bruise you. It cradles you inside its warmth and shows you what the world could be if you tried. It's something that you can mold and grow with it. Music is that ultimate art form that you can express yourself as exactly you feel. From a lovesick ballad. To a screaming death metal ballad that explains your latest relationship. To something that's so confused and full of heartache that you just want to open up those tear ducts right then and there and start crying your eyes out. Or something that is so upbeat and happy that you just want to start dancing right there and screaming and yelling to the heavens. Or something that reestablishes your faith in God and love.

But so many bands these days aren't feeling it any more. They are doing it because its "The next cool thing". Their are very few bands anymore that really show feeling; that really care about where their voice is saying. They don't realize that kids when they are looking for shelter look towards bands for their salvation. Because so many teenagers don't have a faith in God, so they look towards people just like them, with problems just like them, but then thats where the trouble comes in. We've got these bands who make up things, that don't mean a thing just so they can have money and girls... It makes me sick.

It's like, these guys don't have a mission, they don't have an insight on anything that matters. Yet somehow they've made it out of obscurity, while a guy like me, who has something he wants to bring to the table, someone who wants to make a difference in at least one persons life before he dies; can't get jack shit done but those assholes can. It's just not right if you ask me.

What is music becoming today?
What it's really starting to become is saddening me.
It truly is falling apart.
The one Earthly thing I had faith in...
Is falling apart.
Though, I must say, their are still quite a few bands that have me staying hopeful towards music finding away to stay what it should be.

[silverbolt]

I know what you're saying and it saddens me too. I'd probably put the majority of the blame if not all of it on the music industry and all the radio stations in the country, not really the music itself. The industry choses what we get to hear, they advertise what they think is good. And the radio......man. Every station's library of music is so limited, you hear the same shit every hour. It's not that the music is shit, you just hear a very VERY select portion of it. The same thing over and over. Of course, everybody's got their own opinion of music. But if you don't hear "good" music on the radio or tv's, it's because nowadays you gotta go out and look for it. A lot of good stuff is being overlooked. You can't always just sit back and think it's gonna come to you. Not anymore anyways.

[SuckDickNSaveLiv...]

I know what you're saying and it saddens me too. I'd probably put the majority of the blame if not all of it on the music industry and all the radio stations in the country, not really the music itself. The industry choses what we get to hear, they advertise what they think is good. And the radio......man. Every station's library of music is so limited, you hear the same shit every hour. It's not that the music is shit, you just hear a very VERY select portion of it. The same thing over and over. Of course, everybody's got their own opinion of music. But if you don't hear "good" music on the radio or tv's, it's because nowadays you gotta go out and look for it. A lot of good stuff is being overlooked. You can't always just sit back and think it's gonna come to you. Not anymore anyways.

Yeah thats why I don't listen to the radio, I be like damn I just heard that 5 minutes ago.

So sayeth the kid with the Blink 182 avatar. Are you out of your f**king mind?

You clearly are utterly devoid of any sort of taste or legitimate knowledge concerning music. First off, all music is a lie. Music is a contrived, premeditative monster, especially in the case of lyrical music. And, no where is music more a lie than within the industry. You shouldn't be asking for the revival of commercial music; If you really understood what you supposedly believe, you would be helping us in hammering the last few nails into the coffin of the record industry and doing so with an enormous stupid grin on your face. Music, in a sense, may be better off than ever before.

The information age has allowed people with very little resources, no celebrity, and absolutely no traditionally marketable sound and or message to finally reach out to people who care. Until today, the honest and unique local band was almost always destined to remain local - very local. However, now, anyone, practically anywhere, can broadcast his or her voice all over the world with a few simple clicks. This is powerful. Not everyone believes in your god, not everyone is sad like you, happy like you, anything like you... if the industry was making you happy, it was making that much more people pissed. And, if you couldn't find the music you wanted, someone else was finding something that felt just right.

When a song has a price to it... there is almost always a strong form of corruption looming its head. I mean, why do you think New York medal bands get signed? Because they're misogynist, war-mongering, jocks... they support the status-quo. It's why mainstream rap makes poor black kids (and rich white kids, for some reason) think that broken english, forties, rims, and bitches are cool. It's why radio rock makes white kids think that being sad is the hippest shit ever. It's all built and sustained by fat-cat interest companies. Your industry, and the music you listen to, is a f**king lie.

If you want to find good music and can't seem to... that's your problem. You were clearly raised on a strong radio-diet; you need to learn to overcome that, because... there is a shit load of f**king amazing music in this world.
Oh, shut the f**k up!

I agree the internet has allowed you to go beyond to discover artists that your local radio station , MTV, BET, etc. wouldn't even let see the light of day. However there is good mainstream rap out there. Lupe, DMX , Common , Kanye, Jay, Mos Def, Outkast, Em, Ludacris, Nas, etc. are good artist that many people listen too. Therefore I'm one of those black people that think mainstream rap is cool, rims are cool, etc. Rap must also be responsible for that old ass white lady I seen have 24 inch rims on her Escalade the other day. Obviously its not just a bunch of kids that thinks its cool.

But for the record why do people get upset with the artist? Especially back pack rapper fans. I remember when Kanye collaborated with Lil Wayne, purist were up in shambles despite the fact that Kanye never expressed disinterest in working with Lil Wayne. To be honest if you were enticed with a ridiculous amount of money to change your image I'm pretty sure a majority of artist would no doubt sell out.