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Once upon a time people made a thing called GOOD MUSIC. They'd get together - maybe smoke a little reefer or drink a few beers - and start making noises with their bodies and assorted instruments. If a group of talented people learned to work together, filled their efforts with emotion, and stuck with it long enough they'd eventually produce at least a little bit of GOOD MUSIC.
Regardless of the style, topics addressed, or other particulars, GOOD MUSIC is easy to spot because it always, always makes people FEEL SOMETHING. Even decades after it's creation a TRUE MASTERPIECE both inspires and informs. For example:
JIMI HENDRIX: MACHINE GUN
In this Divinely-Inspired, Drug-Fueled, Sex-Driven MASTERPIECE, Guitar God (and former US Army Private) James Marshall Hendrix addresses the horrors of unjust war. Please crank it up and listen...
Consult your own memory banks and you'll no doubt recall favorite songs of your own.... beats which resonate in your Soul... lyrics that changed your life. Regardless of genre, regardless of style, whether thought-provoking or not, it's just GOOD MUSIC.
Believe it or not, people are still making GOOD MUSIC today. You just won't find much of it on MTV. The crap on MTV today is made almost entirely with computers. Even most popular singers' voices are digitally modified with AUTOTUNE. FYI:
Remember: The More You Know, The Less You Suck.
One current "artist" in particular epitomizes the mind-numbing garbage which mainstream music has long since become. Her prophetically-retarded stage name is LADY GAGA. All her music is digitally rendered, utterly canned, and addresses childishly stupid topics.
GAGA just won HALF of MTV's 2010 Video Music Awards, 7 of them for the following video: BAD ROMANCE. It's a thinly-veiled ad for vodka which showcases her talent as a not-that-hot, lip-syncing stripper.
Near as I can tell, BAD ROMANCE's lyrics glorify her role as a manipulative, two-faced, lusty little gold digger. Which prompts the obvious question...
With ZERO TALENT, how many MTV Execs do you have to fuck to get famous?
Don't get me wrong. I'm not questioning her work ethic. In her quest for super-stardom, I'm sure GAGA has taken more than her share of GOO GOO right on the chin.
Here's the award-winning crap that took popular music by storm in 2010. Watch as much of it as you can stomach and come to your own conclusions...
Three hundred million YouTube views and counting. Terrifying.
One things for sure, GaGa has committed the worst misuse of Thule Ski Boxes in human history.
While we're taking a rare look at popular modern music, let's examine the GRAND FINALE live performance that stole the show at 2010's VMAs: KANYE WEST performing an emotional "Toast to the Douchebags" called RUNAWAY.
The pseudo-emotional song is apparently Kanye's personal justification of his inability to love or respect a woman. It also lets us know how unapologetically he loves stroking his own ego. Half the time Kanye sings through AUTOTUNE and sounds like a retarded robot.
Imagine that you're slated to close out a huge awards ceremony and you have to choose one song to convey what's most important to you, what defines you, what encapsulates the moment, and what caps off the evening. Here's what did it for Kanye:
Mind you, this is the same drunken fool who interrupted a sweet little girl's big moment at last year's VMAs. Not that I knew that then. Even in the least popular culture that's the wrong thing to do.
It's a damn shame Kanye lost his mind too. Back before fame fucked him up, he made a masterpiece or two all his own. Betcha never heard his finest work...
KANYE WEST: SPACESHIP
Honest expression transcending real life frustration. I think they used to call that ART.
Look what they're calling Art today. The real question is who the fuck is "THEY"? A popular t-shirt addresses the question...
That's all the pop culture you'll ever find here on OILFREEFUN. Over-Analyzing this garbage makes us dumber than we already are.
Taking a look at this crap does, however, serve as pretty conclusive evidence that our popular culture rewards exactly the wrong kind of behavior. Delusional assholes succeed, while most people trying to do good suffer for it.
Do good anyway.
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JIMI HENDRIX: MACHINE GUN
In this Divinely-Inspired, Drug-Fueled, Sex-Driven MASTERPIECE, Guitar God (and former US Army Private) James Marshall Hendrix addresses the horrors of unjust war. Please crank it up and listen...
Evil man make me kill you.
Evil man make you kill me.
Evil man make us kill, Baby.
Even though we're only families apart.
Now that's a Lyric for Today... and Tomorrow.
Consult your own memory banks and you'll no doubt recall favorite songs of your own.... beats which resonate in your Soul... lyrics that changed your life. Regardless of genre, regardless of style, whether thought-provoking or not, it's just GOOD MUSIC.
Believe it or not, people are still making GOOD MUSIC today. You just won't find much of it on MTV. The crap on MTV today is made almost entirely with computers. Even most popular singers' voices are digitally modified with AUTOTUNE. FYI:
Remember: The More You Know, The Less You Suck.
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| Technologically Enhanced. |
GAGA just won HALF of MTV's 2010 Video Music Awards, 7 of them for the following video: BAD ROMANCE. It's a thinly-veiled ad for vodka which showcases her talent as a not-that-hot, lip-syncing stripper.
Near as I can tell, BAD ROMANCE's lyrics glorify her role as a manipulative, two-faced, lusty little gold digger. Which prompts the obvious question...
With ZERO TALENT, how many MTV Execs do you have to fuck to get famous?
Don't get me wrong. I'm not questioning her work ethic. In her quest for super-stardom, I'm sure GAGA has taken more than her share of GOO GOO right on the chin.
Here's the award-winning crap that took popular music by storm in 2010. Watch as much of it as you can stomach and come to your own conclusions...
Three hundred million YouTube views and counting. Terrifying.
One things for sure, GaGa has committed the worst misuse of Thule Ski Boxes in human history.
While we're taking a rare look at popular modern music, let's examine the GRAND FINALE live performance that stole the show at 2010's VMAs: KANYE WEST performing an emotional "Toast to the Douchebags" called RUNAWAY.
The pseudo-emotional song is apparently Kanye's personal justification of his inability to love or respect a woman. It also lets us know how unapologetically he loves stroking his own ego. Half the time Kanye sings through AUTOTUNE and sounds like a retarded robot.
Imagine that you're slated to close out a huge awards ceremony and you have to choose one song to convey what's most important to you, what defines you, what encapsulates the moment, and what caps off the evening. Here's what did it for Kanye:
And I always find, yeah, I always find something wrong.
You've been putting up with my shit just way too long.
I'm so gifted at finding what I don't like the most.
So I think it's time for us to have a toast.
Let's have a toast for the Douchebags.
Let's have a toast for the Assholes.
Let's have a toast for the Scumbags
Every one of them I know.
Let's have a toast for the Jerkoffs
etc.
Brilliance? No. Nonsense.Mind you, this is the same drunken fool who interrupted a sweet little girl's big moment at last year's VMAs. Not that I knew that then. Even in the least popular culture that's the wrong thing to do.
It's a damn shame Kanye lost his mind too. Back before fame fucked him up, he made a masterpiece or two all his own. Betcha never heard his finest work...
KANYE WEST: SPACESHIP
Honest expression transcending real life frustration. I think they used to call that ART.
Look what they're calling Art today. The real question is who the fuck is "THEY"? A popular t-shirt addresses the question...
That's all the pop culture you'll ever find here on OILFREEFUN. Over-Analyzing this garbage makes us dumber than we already are.
Taking a look at this crap does, however, serve as pretty conclusive evidence that our popular culture rewards exactly the wrong kind of behavior. Delusional assholes succeed, while most people trying to do good suffer for it.
Do good anyway.