The Series of Unfortunate Pop Musicians

To be perfectly honest with you, music evolved for the worse. The sixties were all about sulking yourself into the lyrics of a song, when in 2007 the the pop culture attempts to relate to a teenager's messy room. I completely comply with the rebellious tone which music has consistently contained, but for god sake I'm sick and tired of hearing some 5'5 twenty three year old saying he's bringing sexy back. The art of music was to connect with the public, aiming especially at teenagers who wanted an escape from a bland suburbia. From Jimi Hendrix to Marvin Gaye, the revolution in the sixties and seventies sought to exemplify the inner "Henry David Thoreau" in even the most taciturn individual. It is imperative for musicians to save the listener's mind from hearing unintellectual music.

Unfortunately in the early eighties, the beginning of the end for good music was being abolished: Micheal Jackson's pop came into the picture. While majestic artists like Miles Davis and The Eagles were creating art, Micheal Jackson was making songs just for music videos. He was directing young talent to become R&B and Pop artists. I comply with the fact that this appeals to the agent who smells the opportunity of money, but in a way it also funded child molestation( R.Kelly, Akon, and speaking of the devil, Micheal Jackson). For all you Micheal Jackson fans out there, sorry but everyone knows in the back of their heads that he directed the public to Pop, therefore, ending the genre of authentic Rock n' Roll in the eighties. From then on, every rock band was labeled in the genre of metal. From the early eighties to the early nineties, Rock n' Roll was represented through metal. There was only two legitimate bands that made it in the history of rock n' roll via metal, and they were Metallica and Guns n' Roses. The remaining bands in the eighties shouldn't be recognized significant because compared to bands like The Beatles and Led Zeppelin of the sixties and seventies, they didn't commence a new way of viewing music. Don't get me wrong, Guns n' Roses and Metallica aren't crap bands like Journey, they have their spot in Rock n' Roll history. Otherwise the eighties in terms of everything sucked. I take that back, everything in the eighties sucked except the Golden Age of the NBA.

There was light to break up the clouds of dark and crappy music in the early nineties. Hip Hop was officially finding its way in the music industry. Artists like Public Enemy and A Tribe Called Quest who kept a solid balance between their lyrics and instrumentals set the foundation of a Harlem Renaissance like movement for every ghetto in the world. While Hip Hop was an excellent Robin, the grunge and alternative genres played Batman. Artists like Soundgarden and Stone Temple Pilots rocked the hell out of the clouds that blocked the intellectual connection between the public and artists. This genre of Grunge/Alternative caused the dust bowl of music to become a little bit more irrigated.

It's been a decade since the early nineties and I must say Batman and Robin have saved the public from many villains. I mean, it couldn't have gotten worse than the boy band era when every dude in my sixth grade class was looking up to that 5'5 guy who is now finally turning out to be gay(I have nothing against gay people, but all those love songs were probably toward some guy who made music with them). Unfortunately, here in 2007, the Pop culture which sucks, is still alive. Rock n' Roll is making it back with the same way cocaine raged in the eighties and that my friend, is exquisite news. Bands like Queens of the Stone Age and Jimmy Eat World(who have new albums in mind) are reviving the life out of washed up hippies from the seventies, and its always good to see old people act young again. So sit back and enjoy the ride because the next fifteen to twenty years is going to be quite fun for Rock n' Roll enthusiasts.