So, for some reason this morning in the shower, I had the song "Lip gloss" by Lil Mama stuck in my head. It continued to stay in my head for pretty much the rest of the day. And the more I listened to the song, the more agitated I became with the song. The more agitated I became with Lil Mama, and with the current music sector in general. Let's be honest, most pop culture music today is terrible! Should I name some examples: Lil Mama, Snoop Dog, 50 cent, Rebecca Black and even Katy Perry. Don't get me wrong, their tunes are catchy and often witty but are they really substantial? What message does it send? Only ones that you like to have sex and party. Definitely intellectual!! This isn't just within the past five years. I mean go back 20 years and you have songs like "Ice Ice Baby" and "Baby got back" and "MMMBop". But what happened?! What went so wrong that we went from writing deep, intellectual and meaningful songs to writing fluff? I seriously think there are marshmallows more dense than most songs today, in comparison to songs like "Sunday Bloody Sunday", "Imagine", and "Awake my Soul" (I had to throw a Mumford song in there :)). Just saying.
As much as I am bashing pop culture music, I will admit - I have Beiber fever!! And hey, if it makes you dance and makes you happy then to you it is good music, but I think that overall there has been a steep decline in quality and content of music in the past 30 years and I pray everyday for a new revival of artists to step out, not only in courage but also out of the box and put their heart on their sleeve to come up with creative and meaningful music.
"Music expresses feeling and though, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words." - Robert G. Ingersoll
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