Blame it on the RIAA or politics or greed or the war or what ever you want, but
This decade has been real shitty for music in general. I have to admit that I haven't gotten mad about it until now because I honestly didn't have the time, and I guess nobody else has either! I feel like I have woken up from a coma
and nothing has changed. Please somebody -anybody- please come up with something amazing before I ditch the iPod, the radio, and internet radio and start to whistle all my music like they used to do in the dark ages or when we were cavemen.
Experimental musicians I am talking to you: spending the last 20 years deconstructing melody and rythymn has got to be worth something by now. Poets, where are the ground breaking paradigms for expressing the human condition? No, it is not the 60's and no, eastern philosphy is not going to bail you out again.
Please don't tell me we have exhausted musical creativity and entered another dark ages. Doomed to reinterpret the classics through an endless procession of cover bands. Forced to suffer minor variations to already established traditions. Or, at best, every couple of years witness the miracle of some sensational cross genre hybrid heralded as something totally new and amazing for the rest of our lives!
You musicians have everything going for you right now. There are countless established niche markets with more showing up on the radar every day. To put it bluntly it is guaranteed that there is at least one group of knuckle heads out there that will hear you and like your style. A global distribution system on a scale never before seen at anytime in history is at your disposal! for free! Not to mention the largest music purchasing audience in history! Everyone ages three and up goes to concerts and probably owns at least one compact disc. Many people are even buying mp3's the minute they are uploaded to a download service; cutting out countless middle men, which means more profit for you, the artist(if money was what was holding you back). Things have never been so swell, there is no reason to hold back, get cracking we are depending on you!
Or maybe I am over reacting. Maybe I should just calm down. I should just enjoy good music as I hear it and take comfort in knowing exactly I am hearing and cherish singing along to familiar lyrics. After all who am I to say anything, so much music is being made that I can't listen to it all and somebody has already made something new and amazing and I am just not hip enough to have gotten a chance to hear it yet. who knows!