day 16 - Mainstream music

I am about to sound like an old person with my feelings on mainstream music being produced today but so be it. I could go on for days about the disappointment in what I heard being played, but I will spare my readers of that.

I have some serious issues with mainstream music. I do not listen to the radio unless my twin nieces beg me to put on the radio. Otherwise in my car I listen to the cds that I own. Why? Because I found that today’s mainstream music all sounds the same. All the artists sound the same. Everyone sounds like Rihanna and the guys all sound like they have a bad sinus infection or auto tuned. The beats are pretty much the same too.

I feel as if mainstream has become one big ball of GENERIC. There are only a few artists that I can say I actually enjoy on the radio. I like Katy Perry, believe it or not, but it is because I can distinguish her voice. Kelly Clarkson has always been a talented singer to me so I like her. I like Janelle Monae, because I think she has her own identity. I don’t like Drake; I don’t like Lil Wayne, Nicki Minaj. Rihanna can be okay but not really because I cannot ever tell when it is actually her singing since everyone else sounds like her. There are others but they just haven’t caught my attention.

I do not hear passion in music today unless they are talking about how they passionately want to have sex with someone. I listen to stuff that is not on the radio because I can still sense the passion in their voices. I listen to music from when I was growing up and even older than that because that music soothes me. Music now? It puts me on edge and perhaps that is why kids nowadays have no attention span….someone should do a study and see if it contributes to it.

But I am one of those individuals who still buys CDs of artists I love because I want to support them because I believe in their talent as an artist. I also rarely listen to my iPod even though I have one and I have a zune too but I have no idea where it is right now.

Mainstream music just doesn’t do it for me nowadays…I need that passion and soul. I really hope it goes back to how it was where an artist really was an artist and wasn’t a manufactured “act”.