Usually people who love music (like myself) tend to like to write about music they love (for me that would be musical legends like The Velvet Underground, The Band, & The Zombies.) But sometimes it's fun to talk about bad music. In fact in some ways it's more fun. And it's certainly much easier to find. Just check out MySpace bands to see what I mean. It's most disturbing to me that some of the most awful music I've found on MySpace is also among the most popular.
Hollywood Undead has to be the worst example of this. They are amazingly bad and even more amazingly popular. I know it's nothing new for "the kids" to love crap music, but I think Hollywood Undead just takes that concept too far? At least most of the awful music of the past had at least some redeeming value. I mean Milli Vanilli may have been cheesey but it sure as hell was catchy at least.
But they certainly are not all alone in the universe of crap music.
How about country star Dierks Bentley? Have you heard this fluff? He's unbelievably bad. I had heard his name before but had never checked out his music before as I have absolutely no interest in country pop but one day I came across his latest single "Feel That Fire" and I was just floored because it was so much worse than I thought it would be. And that really is saying a lot because I thought it would be flat out horrendous. But no, it's far worse than that.
It's no big deal that people are creating crap music. There's nothing new about that. The big deal to me is that so many people actually think this is good music. Why is that? Why are people just so incredibly clueless about what constitutes quality?
American Idol is the easy to blame culprit. And I'm sure that does have a part to play. It's taught people that the only thing that matters in music is having a pretty voice.
But really it must go much deeper than that. Of course it's not like people being into awful music is a new thing. The masses are always attracted to the easy to swallow garbage that usually fills the top 40 every week. And it's the real music that real music lovers listen to and that lasts for years.
Obviously no one will be listening to anyone from American Idol or Hollywood Undead in 25 years (except out of pure nostalgia or as a joke) while people will still be getting into the music of true musical geniuses like Ween & Led Zeppelin.
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