Hey kids, remember Jennifer Lopez? Here's her new video Booty ft Iggy Azelea. More specifically Iggy Azelea's giant fake ass and by featuring I mean rubbing up and down on J-Lo's big ol booty. This right here is what you would call capturing the Zeitgeist. Traditional pop music is barren of ideas and the big labels are so desperate that you pay attention to them that they're reduced to producing music videos that look like the first 5 minutes of a porno. Sure it's a really nice porno with good production values but still...
Music is in a weird spot right now. You have Apple paying U2 $100 million to give away an album to all iTunes subscribers just to promote their new phone. Last year Macklemore dominated the charts as an "indie artist" but to do so he had to pay Sony execs a boat load of cash to get his songs on the radio. Nobody is buying CDs, even on iTunes. Younger listeners are moving to subscriber based listening like Pandora and Spotify. Terrestrial radio has been reduced to this weird dj-less automatic jukebox format where most stations only play the same 10 big label approved pop songs on loop.
I guess through all of that one thing remains a constant. Sex sells. Doesn't matter if it's Madonna in a pointy bra, Katy Perry dressed up as a sexy smurf or Iggy Azelea putting on a tijuana donkey show.
This generation desperately needs a Nirvana (and that's coming from someone that HATES Nirvana).
Friday, September 19, 2014
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And you wouldn't believe what the kids these days are listening to, it sounds like robots having sex. I've heard some of their playlists and I thought they just had an electronica song in there. Nope, whole list.
Oddly, the more astute ones know music sucks. I used to get into arguments about how rap peaked in 1992. The last couple I tried to get into the kids just agreed, usually with "I've listened to that stuff, they were really good".
We're like ten years from music being replaced by commercial jingles a la Demolition Man.
I sometimes think that movie was really just a prophetic vision.
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