Like many people with a higher sense of being, I like to consider myself a connoisseur of all things fashionable and classy. Sometimes that means caving into the latest fad and throwing a lot of money on an otherwise unnecessary item of clothing or entertainment system. Other times it means having a wide variety of music at my immediate disposal during the occasional times when I have company. I'll tell you right now that the second one is a more difficult trend to stick to. Why is music so bad these days? I wish I could tell you that it had to do with reality television, teenage pregnancy, or consumerism that collides with our daily lives day in and day out. I even wish I could tell you it had to do with lead in the water supply, but unfortunately for those of you who come to my blog for an ounce of 'grandfatherly' wisdom, I cannot provide you with such in this regard. What I can provide you with is an opinion with a 'matter-of-fact' undertone that disparages the hardworking members of the music industry, while putting down the majority of the population of this fine and well developed country.
For one, the music industry attempts to promote its musicians as 'new and unique' with a fan base to match. From talents such as Lil Wayne to Mylie Cyrus (to cover the color spectrum), the powers that be in the music industry like to tout their top acts as being pioneers of trendy social events and as 'good people' who hold similar values to their fan base. If 'values' include drug abuse, being arrested for domestic abuse, and acting like idiots, then sure I guess those are some moral virtues that the general population should look up to. I find it hard to feel bad for the majority of society particularly because we're the same society that likes to frown on other countries for being 'primitive' and 'immoral', and yet shells out millions of dollars to Nicki Minaj and the majority of the 'hip-hop' artists who view us as nothing more than open wallets. I wish the majority of American's were intelligent human beings, as much as I hate the 80's (mostly for it's contribution to music) I feel like the joke is on us, at least in retrospect. I say this because there are so many parents who grew up during this period that seem to think that modern music is great and will sing along to shit like "Party in the USA" or any crappy pop tune that their dipshit children will throw in on their way to the mall. There's nothing worse than a parent who thinks he/she can fit in with their children, especially when they attempt to mimic a 13-year olds fashion taste or lingo. It's enough to make you wish for a strain of plague to wipe out a good percent of the populace just so those with half a brain can get some sort of a say in the direction society is headed.
We live in a society where we are told that things are bad for us and yet decide to do them anyway, either out of not caring at all or simply because some egghead will figure out the solution to the problem sometime soon. The go-to example for this sort of mentality would be Climate Change, which for some reason is considered a myth by many, specifically in the parts of the country where it was legal to own slaves and marry your cousin. It's scary to think that many adults who like to think they care about future generations continue to flaunt common sense and assert that Global Warming is a "cycle" or worse, a fabrication by the liberal media to trick people into voting Democrat. This isn't one of those '3 out of 5 doctors agree' situations where you can afford to forego being proactive, it's the entire scientific community that unanimously agrees on this conclusion, which as of late has evolved from "we're screwing ourselves" to "we're fucked are you happy assholes?" For those of you who believe in some higher form of intelligence that watches over you while you sleep and cheat on your wives, please pray in my stead that no human being ever gets off this planet. Because if it does you can be sure that it'll repopulate somehow and trash whatever other planet it can breathe on.
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