October 23, 2008
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THE INDUSTRY
Okay… So I’ve been neglecting Xanga hard… I think I’ve missed a whole year of my life… so I will do another post of catch up later – for now – this is the latest web journal/blog I’ve written… and it came from my facebook! So like it or love it…
THE INDUSTRY
So maybe I love music a lil more than the average person. Maybe I enjoy a good beat more than a jumping hook. Maybe my musical tastes have
expandedmatured is a better word. I say that because I am amazingly baffled at the music industry as of 2008. Upset even. I don’t understand who signs artists and for what reason. I get that popular America is definitely into the bangin beats, repetitive hooks, and sythesized singing of today… but dammit if I am tired!!*YET… while I am – AND I REALLY AM – tired of T-Pain, I love ‘Chopped and Screwed ft Luda’. I can’t help listening to it when it comes on. I think T-Pain is a lil’ crackish…’cause as much as you hate hearing him all the time, you can’t put the Pain down, he makes alot of songs hot. Shocker, I know. I am sick to my stomach to admit that… but come on folks. Shawty, So Hood, She’s Got It… (dammit insert any T-Pain hook song) – imagine anybody else on the chorus. Would it have been hot like it was without him? Take a moment, digest that thought and be amazed at your own conclusion! And yes, T-Pain has his own special paragraph/portion/whateva ya wanna call it! Bc… hell… he’s #1 on the list of artists I hate to like sometimes, I don’t know about you!*
Now… T-Pain, Lil Wayne, Plies, …. As much as I think they are cool dudes, how many times have you turned the radio on and heard nothing but those three for like 80 hours straight?!?! I’m sick of it. And it’s not the artist I guess. It’s the industry as a whole. Why does Lil Wayne have 5 songs listed in a 10 song rotation and then he’s gotta verse on at least 3 more!?!? He’s hot right now? I get. Gotta hear him all day long? I don’t get. It’s like… “Wee-oo-wee-oo-wee – Oo girl I can’t believe it, she all on me – Please excuse my hands, I apologize – Baby U can have whateva U like – What the hell did I do right, My life – Been chopped and screwed”! And that was juss in the last 10 mins… My own personal remix! *Maybe it’s 97.9 and K104′s doin?*
And then… It’s like the industry is just graspin straws… bottom of the barrel artists are getting signed and broadcasting their videos and I am juss sick of it! What happened to the good old music? Like Donny Hathaway and Marvin Gaye and Diana Ross and Angela Bofill and the Temps. Yes, they are dated… but when 19 yr olds are still jammin’ their music imagine the staying power of those kind of artists!? Can you see YOUR GRANDCHILDREN AND THEIR CHILDREN bumpin T-Pain? Be fareal now?! Lil Wayne? I don’t see it. And it could juss be me! But I can see my children’s children still jammin’ the Temps and Marvin and Frankie Beverly n Maze… EWF!!! List could be forever ya know!?!
(I object! The industry is still thriving!) Now thass not to take away from artists like Jill, Erykah, Musiq, Lauryn, Jazmine, Chrisette. These are EXCELLENT examples of artists of our day who could have staying power. I’m sure I’m missing many. But these stand out to me. Dare I say Carl Thomas had one of the best freshman albums in the history of the late 90s-00s? Dare I say that and I dare someone to challenge me!? Lol. Almost every song was poetic artistry! Jill Scott! What can’t you say about her? Lauryn Hill, Erykah Badu?!? I would go so far as to say that those three women are apart of the upper echelon of music of our generation. It’s wonderful to see women like Jazmine and Chrisette getting their due! Yes, I am sure I am forgetting many! (Sustained.)
AND IT’S ABOUT DAMN TIME FOR THAT TOO!
Bc if I hear another Beyonce wanna be, I think I will literally juss tear my radio out my car altogether! I’m sick of the whining, screeching, shake ya booty songs! Is that all that there is for women to do in the industry? Make a sexy track where their half naked (or in a damn swimsuit (see Cassie
ft Lil Weezy F. Baby). Cuz thass normal!) in the video or better yet, make a booty shaking track where they dance the whole video? Come on. There’s other things to sing about in life other than the norm. Dare to be creative ladies! Dare to buss some windows out some cars and be ok!! *You liked that right??*The death of the true music has been coming for a long time… and if you doubt me… “DO THA RICKY BOBBY” and “IF YA LIKE IT THEN YA SHOULDA PUT A RING ON IT!” (Nuthing further ya honor, nothing further!)
- Sorry to all the Beyonce/Sasha fans of the world. Not really tho. She’s another one I am simply tired of. And I thot her sophmore album sucked ass, and I’m sure this next one will juss be tracks she threw together to put something out to keep her name relevant. Dare I say, I liked Solange’s sophmore album better than Beyonce’s?! I think I juss did. Wow, what a thot!
And I rest my case.
