Music is a Service
Pop singers and pop songs are a music version of Burger King or McDonald's happy meal. A Fast food music-style drive-thru meant to induce and receive instant gratification. It's passive listening gluttony on a world wide scale.
If you are reading this post, chances are your musical tastes run deeper than pop music--a style of music will forever ruin movie soundtracks, plug up the minds of youth and ruin relationships. I was lucky enough to have people challenge my tastes in music and pop culture. In today's click and giggle culture, there's no direction, no real critiques and no one going for deeper meaning. It's just click and giggle.
Click and giggle.
Pop Music
I, honestly, despise pop music, pop singers, and pop culture. It all seems generic and formulated. They seem to lack creativity and make up for it with good looks and catchiness. Many of today's pop songs have pointless lyrics that don't possess a universality to them. Maybe it's just that being a musician, I am too critical, but I think that pop music and pop singers aren't what this world needs. I don't want just another "catchy tune" or something that makes me "want to dance." I want a piece of music that is artistic and speaks to me, maybe even provoking my thoughts.
Call Me Maybe!
Pop.
People out of place.
It's alright for the kiddies isn't it?
And I have to say, occasionally someone comes along and makes a single and it sells like hot cakes, then, pressured by labels they release a follow up and it goes down like the Titanic.
It has its place, and that really is about it, isn't it?
Pop
Some of the most famous bands of all time are classified as pop.
Beatles
Michael Jackson
Beach Boys
Queen
Even if some of them are not my cup of tea, I would not say that they are untalented or lyrically challenged. Even today's pop artists have talent (well at least some of them for I cannot defend the over auto-tuned; have two repetitive lines to a song). But I think we are selling the artist short if we cannot see the difficulties of being able to create a catchy song that makes people want to dance or sing or jump off a bridge. Pop music sticks in your head for a reason, it is catchy. You may hate it at first but by the fifth or sixth time listening you are singing and dancing along. I think it is incredible for anyone to be able to stand in front of a crowd of people and sing (or lip-sync) while dancing all around. Even if it was a team of writers who wrote it for you. God knows that even with auto-tune and writers I could not sing a pop song to save my life. So I say kudos to those who can make a fortune (for their record label) and make people smile and dance.
Pop
The singers are stuck-up
The songs have no message at all
The singers don't even write their own songs
And they get all the credit
The songs are junk anyway
And if the singers would have wrote them, they would have been even more annoying
What kind of self respecting person would sing a song with, 'Baby, oohh!' as the lyrics?
And why, why would anybody sing about hands in the holes of their sweater? If they are a pop singer, their sweaters most likely do not have holes. Unless you count pockets. WHICH AREN'T HOLES, NEWSFLASH.
Also, even if pop singers start out with good songs (talking about you, Taylor Swift) soon their songs get all annoying and you are like, "Please, just start singing Mary's Song again! For Pete's sake, who cares about Bad Blood anyway?"
Pop songs? Not my style.
Pop
Pop.
Shitty boy bands, uncreative music, cookie-cutter celebrities, boobs and ass, repetitive break-up songs, and girls whining about boys.
God dammit, humanity. You put people on the moon and send them to the depth of the ocean, you put robots on Mars, you just landed a craft on a comet hurtling through space, you make me proud to be human, and then you throw me the same One Direction song five times a day on the radio.
*sigh*
Pop songs/singers make me want to bury myself in a hole for the next few THOUSAND years. What the Hell will you throw at me next, Humanity?
