This week's rant comes from an aspiring singer, Alicia from Mayfield. Alicia performs at various venues in the Mayfield area.
I wanted to speak out about the music industry. People are complaining about how poorly it is doing now days, in which (for the most part) I do agree. I do not think the music industry is doing well right now because, most of (especially the pop/hip-hop artists) are singing and writing songs that are so similar to each other. Most of today's pop songs have mostly the same rhythms, melodies, and much of the same lyrics. Many simply sing about sexual/physical or materialistic characteristics. Yes, I do understand we all have that side to us and singers and songwriters are going to create songs based on those themes. Although, I do not believe they should focus so much on only those themes. There is much more we could learn from in songs, reflect on from songs, and sing/write about. Meanign is what you create it to be, but to a point. There are just some things (I think) that are just meant to be and some things that are just meant to be meaningful and beautiful in different types of ways. I love party music (probably surprising for a shy student) and fast paced music; even though I do definitely love singing my heart out to a sad and soulful/heartfelt song. It just shows so much meaning and reveals every piece of me.
I think music artists need to be more creative and put in more time and effort, instead of following the crowd and writing a song quickly while recording it for just a few months.
Music is a work of art. If you rush through it and do not put your heart and soul into it, you must not be that interested in it or just very preoccupied. I would like music to have more of a diversity; little tradition with a little modern. In oldies songs, you can really move to the rhythm and it seems they are much more happier/light on the feet. I think that twould really catch people's attention and boost the music industry. The music would be fast paced (and slow as well), but not so repetitive and similar of the melodies. When you hear a new song on the radio that is really different and very creative, lots of times you turn it up and start learning the lyrics; while seeing that when you hear a new song that has so many of the same themes of lyrics and the same repetitive tone and melodies, you get bored quickly and change the station (at least I know I do).
Sometimes being a little different and a little bit of an outcast isn't so bad after all. People may learn more about the outcast than they would the follower. It's all up to us and the music artists now. Thanks for listening!
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Alicia...Great post. you hit on a good point in that the outcast is what gets noticed, or at least should get noticed.
Many, many artists made their name simply by "breaking the mold" or being different. It can be Elvis Presley or even something more contemporary like Amy Winehouse (who sounds like a 60s soul singer).
Alicia, I so agree with you. I am old and I feel the same way. Tired of the same old same old....
However the music industries have a big marketing firm and they keep up with what the folks are buying. Right about now young folks spends billions of dollars buying the same type of music. All the song writers are doing is catering to their audience.
The music industries will not change until the buying public changed. They sell and market their products to mostly disgruntled youth. All you have to do is just open your window and you will hear what I am talking about.
Now, of late I have noticed that, there is a big push by the music industry, especially Time-Warner, to get folks interested in the oldies again. They are putting all our favorites; the fifties, sixties, seventies, and eighties music on CD and DVD. You get a lot for the money, and of course the old folks like me are eating it up. After all, we are tired of Rap and Hip Hop … this music doesn’t speak to the majority of the baby boomers. But the oldies do. Because of this, the music industries find it easy to continue cranking out the mess we hear today that passes for music.
It’s a smart business move on one hand, on the other hand, its stifle creativity. So what’s a person to do? Young folks, shy or otherwise, just love dancing to the beat. It’s not just like this now, it was the same doing my youth – such is life, and I am not being sarcastic.
I have been led to believe that there is nothing new under the sun, and if you live long enough everything that goes around will come back around again. Keep living, the music will change, again, and again, and again.
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