Originally posted on 17/2/10
JLS, and any music artist who got famous from a reality TV show
In a blog completely unrelated to recent events, i've decided to explain once and for all why music is going down the shitter.
Radiohead guitarist Ed O'Brien said recently that creativity in music is being sacrificed for money making: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8477675.stm and the man is right. Why do people listen to music? The primary reason is to be entertained. As such, stuff like The X Factor could be seen as music for the 21st century, purely based on entertainment and nothing else. But that undermines the very reason music was invented in the first place, to be creative. There is nothing creative about the artists who got famous from TV shows. None of them write their own songs, none of them are particularly memorable, and they could come of a production line for all the difference that exists between them. Everything that is churned out by the happy smiling goliath that is The X Factor is swallowed up by the equally happy smiling mindless drones of the people that this drviel is aimed at. Remember when I said that the album is dying? It's because people no longer have the attention span to devote 40-50 minutes a day to giving a band the time to listen to what they can do. Everything is geared towards the one crap song ala Beat Again, which sticks in your head for a week until the next manufactured drivel comes along to win the hearts of unfortunate saps who don't know any better. There's no feeling behind it, absolutely nothing that makes you think the people behind the noise care about what they're doing.
Rage Against the Machine proved that not everyone is a drone. While the concept behind it wasn't exactly wonderful, ie everyone buy the one thing with the sole purpose of beating some tranny Geordie whose name i've already forgotten, at least they're a real band, and the music is real and has a real message. Any other band who was ever beaten to a number one spot by some rent-a-tune from a TV programme is always going to be infinitely better than what beat them, and further proof that the chart system is both completely irrelevant in judging the musical ability of an artists, but scarily and sadly representitive of the population today. If you have ever bought a single from one of these people, you are wrong. If you have ever bought an album from one of these people, you are wrong. If you have ever been to see one of these people in concert, you are wrong.
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