Sometimes I wonder, what is wrong with the world? Pt. 2: Tonedeaf is a worldwide epidemic!

It seems that every five years or so there is something new trending in the music business. In the 90's Spice Girls, Britney Spears and such had huge success and later on came the boy-bands like Blue and Westlife. Somewhere during 2000's a wave of Nu Metal and Rap-Rock popped up like P.O.D and Linken Park with huge hits, that lead to worldwide acclaims and applause. Here in Denmark a lot of techno acts like Italobrothers had a lot of the success during almost the entire 2000's. Then came Katy Perry and Rihanna as the new bread of pop stars but now there is something wrong. Something terribly wrong.


With the pop stars of my age you always had something to look at. It was like they had to be good looking, able to dance or something to ever be considered a shoot at fortune and fame. The voices where not the most important to the producers and even though I hate that production method so much I can't stand what is going on right now in popular music.

I don't care about Nicki Minaj and here big ass and shitty voice. I don't care about Rihanna trying to star in a shitty movie like Battleship. What I do care about is the amount of lies and ignorance everybody is filled with. Let me start of with everbodies favorite little girl: Lorde. I have never heard of anyone rising so fast for no reasons what so ever. She is at the epicenter of the new trend. "Ugly girls who produce their own music". I don't think Lorde is ugly, but it's a term I use to show the new direction some off the pop scene is going in. It's moving away from the polished beauty queens and all the staged surroundings. Now we are gong for the "normal" girl who has so much talent she can record hit upon hit upon hit. Well the shit is gonna hit the fan. the only good thing she has ever associated with was having Randy Marsh touch his clit on stage. Peoples faces are being stuffed with this shit and they want them to think that she wrote this song in her basement and she is so innocent and pure, untouched by the filthy record companies. When someone is set to work with a songwriter that is not a part of their band or act that means the songwriter writes everything. Joel Little wrote all her stuff. Lorde only sings some of the vocals. There is nothing wrong with doing that at all. But it gets wrong when you lie about it and try to make yourself look better.

Sia, Seinabo Sey, Lorde, St. Vincent, London Grammar, Lana Del Rey and so on all have that hipster look and sound. They do sound different in what they do but it's either slow electronic beats or boring ass piano songs with no flavor. I am clueless to how the hell this stuff keeps on getting produced. What a lot of these artist have in common is that the female voices are rather deep and drowning. Lorde's song Royals is one of the most boring peices of music I have ever heard. And on top of that I had to hear it every time a good movie on television was interrupted by commercials, cause it featured in a Pepsi commercial. Sia's Chandelier has that interesting vocal rise in the chorus but other then that it's forgettable. She has however written music for big pop stars so she can write real music, but when you hear her live through the chorus and she fails to be sharp and spot on in her vocals I just can't take it serious. I don't know how people with no musical education can sit there and suck it up. When you know that, even popular music, has been better at some point in time. Way settle for that shit put in front of you? Go get some real food in the fridge. And by the way it has been a long time since anybody got anything good outside of electronic music, out of a drum-box. Every drum-track from these artist sound so flat and terrible it's a catastrophe. 


Trust me I would rather have real independent women like MØ to do their thing, then Miley Cyrus and so on, but when the majority of the artist lie and only do the vocal on their songs, and get to say they did the whole thing, then I would rather have honest artists. To go out side of the box and talk about someone els who does the same thing we have the band I hate most of all right now: Volbeat. 

I am rotten to the core with jalousie towards them, cause they play hard rock/metal on stadiums i the US but my god are they doing it in the worst possible way. Only once every decade does a band with such little skill get that much attention. You fire the guitar player when you get to America only to get some random dude from the US to get some extra points from the american audience. Your record companies pays football stadiums to play your songs, not because they kick ass. You can't do jack shit when your playing live, everything is to loud and such a mess that you can't tell the sound check from the actual gig. Everything is written for you when you have to record an album. The albums claim that everything is written "only" by Volbeat but you had a song in The Gardeners Tale that had something special, and that you just can't create again. Bullshit! The lead singer fakes himself playing guitar on stage and sings in such a mellow and dreary tone/key you want to blow your head off before every chorus, because you just know that there's coming more of the same. Yes I am hatting but I do it because I wish for everybody to get as big a kick out of good music as I get but none of the music mentioned in this post is good music.





Get a life and start listening to better music!