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

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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.