Saturday, August 11, 2012
The music industry: product of class warfare
Today was the Outerlands festival in San Francisco. While I'm not going to have a chance of attending it due to being at a giants game, a thought occured to me. This was one of the biggest Outerlands festivals on record and the primary age group in attendance were young adults and teenagers like me. They came to see people with talent, legends and legends in the making who write their songs and sing with passion. I think our generation is finally fed up with the music that's been handed down to them by huge record labels. We're rebelling by listening to music that doesn't belong to us, music created by past generations, music that WE can connect with. This isn't the party generation as most music labels would like us to believe. We're a generation screwed over by past generations, can't pay for college, can't get jobs, stuck with a massive pile of debt. We're angry, we're pissed off. We don't want to waste our time partying, we want our voices to be heard! Perhaps the music industry is like a propeganda wing of the Republican party. They want us to ignore the social issues plagueing our generation and instead believe that everything is ok, we should be haveing fun. More and more of us are discovering that their brainwash campaign is nothing but that, a brainwash campaign. The only reason Nicki Minaj, Justin Bieber and Rhianna keep appearing in the music charts is because they have large corporations giving them money. Money to try and turn all of us into stupid apathetic slobs. If all of them disapeared from the charts today, I don't think anyone would care. People may even be celebrating because all of those dipshits who's main purpose is to display how great it is to be wealthy will be gone from public conciousness. That's another thing that I find suspicious about the billboard 100. It's filled with songs that are affectionate towards money. I have no clue if the conservatives fund these acts (don't mean to steryotype, but most prefer country, the downfall of country music is a rant I'll save for a different post) but they both seem to have the same philosophy. "Fuck the poor, fuck the middle class, only the wealthy matter."
Well, A new revolution in music is occuring and we're all preparing to fight the 1% overlords of mainstream music. Will you join me in overthrowing the pop tyrants comrades?
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