As i'm sure everyone has heard, this is LMFAO's "Party Rock Anthem," and with over half a billion views, I can never understand why. Pop music in itself evokes more anger in me than I can possibly describe, with artists making millions of dollars for what, a catchy beat with lyrics which, half the time, don't make any sense. The "music," is just a computerized set of annoying sounds, while the vocals, is an auto tuned disaster; you don't even have to know how to sing nowadays. And for some unknown reason when putting the two together, you have a multi-million dollar work which this entire generation consumes like cake at a birthday party. In the case of this particular group, LMFAO has once again created another "hit", that will be played on the radio for how knows how long, will with no doubt be heard by every high school in the country, and will bring massive amounts of cash into their worthless pockets. For anyone wondering, I had placed the quotations around words like, "song", and "music," because I truly don't believe this deserves to be called music. A genre such as jazz, is truly worthy of this title. With the artists devoting sometimes their entire life to their occupation. I'm sure it doesn't take 50 years to learn how to use a computer, which is the same amount of time unknown jazz artist Yoshiaki Miyanoue has been playing. With jazz artists using real instruments and real people, blending together a harmony of different instruments, all of which take years upon years to learn, it's incredibly hard to believe their work goes unheard by this generation. Take a mainstream jazz artist, such as Kenny G; one of his more popular songs, "songbird," has just under 2 million views, but when we take a pop artist, such as Katy Perry, and her song "fireworks," which has just over 3 hundred million views, we can see that not many people listen to jazz anymore. In the end the difference in motive is money. From the way I see it, jazz artists continue what they're doing simply because it's a passion while pop artists do what they do in order to make a quick buck. Besides i have never once heard of someone who wasn't famous creating pop music because it's their passion.
Thursday, November 29, 2012
500,000,000+ Views...WHY
LMFAO - Party Rock Anthem
As i'm sure everyone has heard, this is LMFAO's "Party Rock Anthem," and with over half a billion views, I can never understand why. Pop music in itself evokes more anger in me than I can possibly describe, with artists making millions of dollars for what, a catchy beat with lyrics which, half the time, don't make any sense. The "music," is just a computerized set of annoying sounds, while the vocals, is an auto tuned disaster; you don't even have to know how to sing nowadays. And for some unknown reason when putting the two together, you have a multi-million dollar work which this entire generation consumes like cake at a birthday party. In the case of this particular group, LMFAO has once again created another "hit", that will be played on the radio for how knows how long, will with no doubt be heard by every high school in the country, and will bring massive amounts of cash into their worthless pockets. For anyone wondering, I had placed the quotations around words like, "song", and "music," because I truly don't believe this deserves to be called music. A genre such as jazz, is truly worthy of this title. With the artists devoting sometimes their entire life to their occupation. I'm sure it doesn't take 50 years to learn how to use a computer, which is the same amount of time unknown jazz artist Yoshiaki Miyanoue has been playing. With jazz artists using real instruments and real people, blending together a harmony of different instruments, all of which take years upon years to learn, it's incredibly hard to believe their work goes unheard by this generation. Take a mainstream jazz artist, such as Kenny G; one of his more popular songs, "songbird," has just under 2 million views, but when we take a pop artist, such as Katy Perry, and her song "fireworks," which has just over 3 hundred million views, we can see that not many people listen to jazz anymore. In the end the difference in motive is money. From the way I see it, jazz artists continue what they're doing simply because it's a passion while pop artists do what they do in order to make a quick buck. Besides i have never once heard of someone who wasn't famous creating pop music because it's their passion.
As i'm sure everyone has heard, this is LMFAO's "Party Rock Anthem," and with over half a billion views, I can never understand why. Pop music in itself evokes more anger in me than I can possibly describe, with artists making millions of dollars for what, a catchy beat with lyrics which, half the time, don't make any sense. The "music," is just a computerized set of annoying sounds, while the vocals, is an auto tuned disaster; you don't even have to know how to sing nowadays. And for some unknown reason when putting the two together, you have a multi-million dollar work which this entire generation consumes like cake at a birthday party. In the case of this particular group, LMFAO has once again created another "hit", that will be played on the radio for how knows how long, will with no doubt be heard by every high school in the country, and will bring massive amounts of cash into their worthless pockets. For anyone wondering, I had placed the quotations around words like, "song", and "music," because I truly don't believe this deserves to be called music. A genre such as jazz, is truly worthy of this title. With the artists devoting sometimes their entire life to their occupation. I'm sure it doesn't take 50 years to learn how to use a computer, which is the same amount of time unknown jazz artist Yoshiaki Miyanoue has been playing. With jazz artists using real instruments and real people, blending together a harmony of different instruments, all of which take years upon years to learn, it's incredibly hard to believe their work goes unheard by this generation. Take a mainstream jazz artist, such as Kenny G; one of his more popular songs, "songbird," has just under 2 million views, but when we take a pop artist, such as Katy Perry, and her song "fireworks," which has just over 3 hundred million views, we can see that not many people listen to jazz anymore. In the end the difference in motive is money. From the way I see it, jazz artists continue what they're doing simply because it's a passion while pop artists do what they do in order to make a quick buck. Besides i have never once heard of someone who wasn't famous creating pop music because it's their passion.
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