Today i saw a band on television that I used to listen to. like five years ago, maybe more, this band was a fairly decent hardcore band, in the same line that the misfits were, kind of gloomy, lots of black and songs about death, but they were good, not too image centered of a group, certaintly not my favorite, but one that I chose to spin once in a while while i was working as a DJ at a college radio station. Either way, it is the same story we have all heard, band makes good albums, band gets picked up by a major label, band gets very wealthy, band stops focusing on music, starts focusing on image and using thier new found credit line to exagerate things in music videos and high end production sound on albums... the new "trust punkers" for the next generation.
I am aware that every day that passes i grow a little older and less cool, and i think more and more popular music sounds like garbage, but i have always thought that popular music sounded terrible. Why is that? And more importantly why do decent artists decay so quickly with airplay? Perhaps it is the manner in which mass media programs the day to force us to hear the same 200 or so songs in movies tv commercials radio ringtones whatever, perhaps artists just get bored and start churning out albums to fulfill a contract to thier new major league bosses, whatever the case, it makes me sad to know also that a 30 something year old man in white makeup is trying to explain highschool heartbreak to 14 year old kids in white makeup.
In the end none of this matters, this is going to happen for the rest of my life.
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