Day #8,649 - why music is as close to dead as its ever been...

OK. I don't want to rant and rave about the same things everyone has said a million times, but can somebody explain to me the Justin Bieber epidemic? The more i read the faster i lose faith in humanity.


While sitting in the doctors waiting room while 'LET' was having her flu checked out I was trying ever so hard to ignore the wailing children and an odd smelling older gentleman who had clearly upset a woman with his pungent aroma who insisted on 'tutting' every time his body made a strange noise... anyway, i digress. While pushing myself through this General Practitioner Hell Hole, my eyes would every so often drift from my pages to the television, ET was on. and for all of you 'uncool people' ET is short for Entertainment Tonight. because THAT is the best way to fix the fact that our school kids vocabulary is 40% less then of ours when we were at school. Looking back at my page i was interrupted by a screeching sound. it was yet ANOTHER report on the Justin Bieber tragedy in Sydney where one girl had her knee dislocated. I actually felt my face scrunch up when the presenter inferred that little preteen was dating Kim Kardashian. Firstly, who really cares? and secondly, come ON! of ALL the sorted, nasty things celebrities do every single day, THIS is news? i was deeply distraught.

This 'Bieber Fever' has hit hard and I'm confused as to why. so i decided to go through a few articles and make a few valid, if not, rather frank opinions and ask a few questions I'm sure everyone has thought of at least once while being raped in the face by this ridiculous propaganda presented to us.

• He is friends with Usher

Why? How? Actually, i don't particularly care how they become friends. what i cant seem to get out of my mind is how frustrating it is to hear, how cool that is. why?? imagine it was you at 15. hi mum and dad, this is my 32yo friend who buys me things and takes me places at night. He has also promised me that my music career is about to take off, he is very famous and i plan to do what every he says to make it. That guy would be hauled off to camp "don't touch children there" faster than you know it! Now i understand that Justin Bieber is more then just a regular kid... but again, it brings me back to the question, WHY?

• The voice, the Image
  

To be honest, no one can actually think that this is his voice? considering how much the vocal machines are used these days for actual artists i would be more than surprised that he sings at all. But hay, people out there say how can i hold that against him... with, as i said, all the vocal machines used he wouldn't be the only one. And that's fine, but it brings me to the point of this section. its clear that after the Hannah Montana and JONAS era dies (which seems sooner rather than later) its been decided that the next role model that will be drilled into the minds of the youth will have more 'street cred'. So the industry has created a 'cooler' version for the children of the world to imitate. so if the trends continue, within the next 4 years we will see a 9yo punk rock revival band with temp tattoos and facial piercings!

• Even Brian McFadden is better than him...

"Brian McFadden has beaten off stiff competition from both Usher and Justin Bieber to remain at the top of the ARIA singles chart."

well, shit. if this doesnt just make my point clear as day? if THIS guy is beating you, your not doing it well enough! for a guy who who is famous for shagging an Australian reject to take the cake... it has to hurt.

but in all fairness this was taken from an MTV Australia, so the public are bias, which is frustrating in itself... but come one, i didn't see a bunch of 12yos getting crushed when B-Fad (totally just made that up) was in Melbourne the other day filming Australia's got Talent... so where is this major support coming from? the Children. now WHY on earth are 6-12yos listening to this kind of music!! it had nothing to do with being popular 10-15 years ago... you listened to stuff that made you feel good. Fine Young Cannonballs, now THAT was a band! and the thing was, i knew NOTHING about them. i didn't have them on my facebook page, i didn't worship them. i didn't even know they had another song to "she drives me crazy" until 7 years later when i started to really get into music!! Where does the madness end and the parents stand in? please, have a LONG talk about standards and why kids should like something! not because YouTube said so, or because its splashed about like a droplet in a puddle we call society, because sooner or later that droplet ripples and creates a whole shudder throughout and that puddle is never the same again, and i personally fear that the consequences will be far greater then originally imaginable. i don't need to go into the whole, girls are wearing make up earlier, and boys are hanging out later and so on. but seriously... who is this 'Bieber Monstrosity' actually benefiting?

• The songs

So this was particularly interesting. I am not going to bitch about how annoying the songs are... because they aren't, how can they be? they are created specifically to arouse the easiest sense to trigger, short term memory. they are easy to listen to, catchy, repetitive and if it was a female singer 10 years older, there would be no cause for concern. but instead we have a kid who surely hasn't gone through the process of his testicles descending telling us about how a girl as equally undeveloped is his 'one'. please sir, we of the 20+ bracket who have come to terms with the unconditional realisation that "the one" is not only unimportant but also there should be much less emphasis on the issue. but kudos for appearing as the 'new age' of 'men' who are caring and loving... all you are proving is that its easier to get away with more. see you in 5 years with your 3 baby mommas and 4 children. "she was the one... and she was... her too... and her..."

then there is this "baby" song... i mean... really? the less said the better... so I'm just going write down what words/phrases anyone under 18 should be able to say... baby, baby, baby... oh, shorty, love, I'll buy you anything, i thought we'd be together for ever, i thought my first love would be always, baby, baby, baby... no and always be mine. i would like to also add, spontaneously breaking out into a dance at a bowling alley does not automatically make you cool.



Now i know we all fall in love around 13-14 and have our hearts broken. but we all realise a few years later how stupid we were to think that the one could be in our lives at such a young age... all these songs are doing is making these poor bloody kids lives more like the movies. but unfortunately, real life isn't like that. to get anywhere or anyone, you have to work hard at it. there will be no montages, no quick fix group dancing that wins someone back and i put it to you that even if you wrote a song about someone, if you f#$k up bad enough, you may as well keep on walking.


To finish, i want to address two things. Firstly, i know a lot of people will be sitting there going "why bother ranting about it if you don't like it, your just bringing more attention to it..." while i thank your people for your opinion, and reading this, i also want to point out that the points I'm TRYING to make, are not even directed at the little over night star in question. while i do believe everything he stands for is a sham, its the people buying into it that i am trying to question!

secondly, i want to take a small paragraph to think about the poor kid... he is 15... and is already being used by some of the biggest names to reignite their career... Usher (obviously) Ludacris, Sean Kingston... i mean... who's next? this industry will chew him up and spit him out. all the celebs are trying their best to get into this travesty of entertainment and it wont be long until they become bored of him... give it a couple of years at the most and he would have been forgotten, then he will come back in 10 years (if he hasn't already ODed on something) and go again, he will have stubble and a tattoo... or what ever is deemed to be 'bad'. shit, by then he probably a 3 time offender the rate this world is going, and at least by then, he will be legal... its a shame they didn't let him have a childhood and by they i mean his parents and who ever allowed this abomination to come to fruition.


Between his lack of growth possibilities with society's attention spans decreasing at an alarming rate, and the fact that the standards of taste continue to drop consistently... music really doesn't stand a chance.



GHOST