Skylar+L’s+OpEd+Article

="A Thing Of The Past"= //by Skylar L.//

Today I was sitting at home procrastinating on my homework looking for a new band to listen to. I spend hours upon hours looking for new music to listen to, because that is the one thing that I really enjoy doing. While listening to a new album I just bought I realized something. There are so many talented musicians and bands out in the world that aren't being recognized at all. In our society its all about music that makes people get up and dance and not really think. Mainstream music in our society has turned into something thats not music, its just a comatose joy. It doesn't matter anymore if the artist has any musical talent whatsoever; all that matters is if they fit a certain look. Screw the rest of it, as long as someone looks cool and can market themselves they can make a fortune. Granted, there is that small niche of artist who actually do have talent and become famous but most modern day mainstream America musicians hardly do.

There are some really amazing band out there if people ever took the time to actually look. Tons of independent bands struggle daily trying to make money off of something that they really good at, but instead of them making any money from actual talent, some idiot like Kanye West will make a million dollars everyday. I am just honestly sick of this, there are SUCH amazing bands out there but people just buy into whatever is marketed to them. Instead of buying a album that will actually support someone who is talented and trying to pursue their musical ambitions people nowadays buy an album that is just crap. Most popular albums in the mainstream music industry are written and composed by a team of writers for a certain musician. But I don't even think that these people can be called "musicians" they are talentless nobodies who just so happen to fit a mold.

These "musicians" are a dishonor to all real musicians, they are not musicians at all they are a product and people are jut buying into them. I really think of these bands and rappers and singers as really all the same, they are all formed to be something that will sell. Its just so ANNOYING! I really think if people started to hear deep passionate talented music than things could change but that probably will never happen. A lot of people today are more concerned with what people look like and what they represent than what they are actually doing.

I don't mean everyone though. There are tons of people who see through the whole mainstream music charade just like me. Going to concert of independent TALENTED band and seeing the rooms packed full of people really gives me hope for the future maybe, but honestly it looks very grim. Watching the Grammy Awards this year really got my hopes down on everything. I watched this event to only see that it had been corrupted and destroyed like everything else that these money grabbing huge corporations have gotten their hands on. The same event that gave Bob Dylan an Album of The Year award in 1973 is now giving an award to Beyonce for Song of The Year. It just seems wrong. Theres no real decision anymore its just all politics and money theres no real music to it.

For the worlds sake I hope people can see through all the nonsense. There is a whole world of music to be experienced. Real music can change peoples life. I know personally it changed mine. I never took the time to look deeper into music and I just bought whatever came up on itunes that I like, but now everything is different. I have learned from experience that by taking the time to actually look for music your whole world can really be changed for the better. Now I could never imagine listening to that crap they call music because I see how fake it is. Music is an art and what mainstream America considers music, is not art.

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