I'm glad I didn't actually watch the Grammys. Ever since the
turn of the century all we have in the way of pop culture is absolute garbage.
Much of that comes from letting game shows decide who the important singers and
celebrities are. SAM SMITH???!!! (and
he stole from Tom Petty). REALLY!!! After all the great rock music of the
1980s and 1990s this is what we are left with?! He sounds a lot like Pharrell
Williams. What ever happened to guys singing that sounded like actual guys? And
what about having thought provoking lyrics or something innovative?
Most of this music reminds me of the bubble gum we heard in
the '60s and '70s. It had little or no depth to it. It was pure mindless
entertainment. And there is SIR (English Royal suck-up) Paul McCartney. He was
the light weight of the Beatles. He makes good music but his lyrics suck. It's
really said that one of the remaining members of the great band the Beatles
suck as bad as he does. Who left the elevator door opened?
In a world run by pathetic and corrupted political hacks who
have recreated this nation's politics and culture in its own image and
likeness, it doesn't surprise me that our pop music culture is going through
arrested development.
So maybe the majority of US citizens like this crap culture
thrusted upon us by a mind numbing news media that never has anything of
substance to say. We have Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback who is living proof it
doesn't take intelligence or any kind of real success to win an election.
Lousy politics, lousy news media and now lousy pop music
culture. It all seems to go together. I guess I'll get out my old albums from
the last century to hear something worth listening to.
Actually I'm sure there are a few good music acts in this
country--they are not getting ANY air play.
One telling piece of information was the news
that people were tweeting "Who is Beck." REALLY...WHO IS BECK!?
Obviously there are a lot of young people who know little or nothing about some
of our great music in our past.
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