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Hmmm. I switched the telly on earlier, and I guess what I saw?
Louise on Top of the Pops doing an atorcious version "Stuck in the Middle With You". Add that to Robbie Williams' complete abomination of "We Are The Champions" and I get the feeling that I must have moved to Cover City without knowing.
What's going on?
Ok, I know that chessy pop songs have to exist for the masses, but why cover older songs? Surely there's enough song writing talent out there (even if they're not actually the ones singing) to get some decent stuff written.
Why resort to covers of old songs when you just know that it'll never be as good as the original? Five did a version of Well Will Rock You earlier in the year, another piece of utter poo.
What really worries me though is that these songs actually do well in the charts. Louise was at number 4. Excuse me? How did that get there?
I guess some 14 years old actually thought it was a good song, which worries me a lot. But it must have been a lot of 14 year olds....
I suppose it's only inevitable. The charts reflect our society (at least in my opinion they do), even if we don't like what they are showing us.
What do we see when looking at the top 40? A load of pop stuff, sung by pretty people, going straight in really high, and then dropping swiftly the next week. I guess this tells us that we live in a society of instant gratification with no thought to the future. "Yep, this is good for now, it'll do." Then they get bored of it and go out buy some other stuff the next week.
Having said all that, we do seem to be seeing a return to form in the music scene, slowly but surely. In 1996 the radio was full of indie. Like, nearly every track.
Since then it's gone with pop, dance and rap. But there seems to be a light at the end of the tunnel. "Proper" music is starting to get some airplay again, which in my opinion is a good thing.
Louise on Top of the Pops doing an atorcious version "Stuck in the Middle With You". Add that to Robbie Williams' complete abomination of "We Are The Champions" and I get the feeling that I must have moved to Cover City without knowing.
What's going on?
Ok, I know that chessy pop songs have to exist for the masses, but why cover older songs? Surely there's enough song writing talent out there (even if they're not actually the ones singing) to get some decent stuff written.
Why resort to covers of old songs when you just know that it'll never be as good as the original? Five did a version of Well Will Rock You earlier in the year, another piece of utter poo.
What really worries me though is that these songs actually do well in the charts. Louise was at number 4. Excuse me? How did that get there?
I guess some 14 years old actually thought it was a good song, which worries me a lot. But it must have been a lot of 14 year olds....
I suppose it's only inevitable. The charts reflect our society (at least in my opinion they do), even if we don't like what they are showing us.
What do we see when looking at the top 40? A load of pop stuff, sung by pretty people, going straight in really high, and then dropping swiftly the next week. I guess this tells us that we live in a society of instant gratification with no thought to the future. "Yep, this is good for now, it'll do." Then they get bored of it and go out buy some other stuff the next week.
Having said all that, we do seem to be seeing a return to form in the music scene, slowly but surely. In 1996 the radio was full of indie. Like, nearly every track.
Since then it's gone with pop, dance and rap. But there seems to be a light at the end of the tunnel. "Proper" music is starting to get some airplay again, which in my opinion is a good thing.
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Hmmm. I switched the telly on earlier, and I guess what I saw?
Louise on Top of the Pops doing an atorcious version "Stuck in the Middle With You". Add that to Robbie Williams' complete abomination of "We Are The Champions" and I get the feeling that I must have moved to Cover City without knowing.
What's going on?
Ok, I know that chessy pop songs have to exist for the masses, but why cover older songs? Surely there's enough song writing talent out there (even if they're not actually the ones singing) to get some decent stuff written.
Why resort to covers of old songs when you just know that it'll never be as good as the original? Five did a version of Well Will Rock You earlier in the year, another piece of utter poo.
What really worries me though is that these songs actually do well in the charts. Louise was at number 4. Excuse me? How did that get there?
I guess some 14 years old actually thought it was a good song, which worries me a lot. But it must have been a lot of 14 year olds....
I suppose it's only inevitable. The charts reflect our society (at least in my opinion they do), even if we don't like what they are showing us.
What do we see when looking at the top 40? A load of pop stuff, sung by pretty people, going straight in really high, and then dropping swiftly the next week. I guess this tells us that we live in a society of instant gratification with no thought to the future. "Yep, this is good for now, it'll do." Then they get bored of it and go out buy some other stuff the next week.
Having said all that, we do seem to be seeing a return to form in the music scene, slowly but surely. In 1996 the radio was full of indie. Like, nearly every track.
Since then it's gone with pop, dance and rap. But there seems to be a light at the end of the tunnel. "Proper" music is starting to get some airplay again, which in my opinion is a good thing.
Louise on Top of the Pops doing an atorcious version "Stuck in the Middle With You". Add that to Robbie Williams' complete abomination of "We Are The Champions" and I get the feeling that I must have moved to Cover City without knowing.
What's going on?
Ok, I know that chessy pop songs have to exist for the masses, but why cover older songs? Surely there's enough song writing talent out there (even if they're not actually the ones singing) to get some decent stuff written.
Why resort to covers of old songs when you just know that it'll never be as good as the original? Five did a version of Well Will Rock You earlier in the year, another piece of utter poo.
What really worries me though is that these songs actually do well in the charts. Louise was at number 4. Excuse me? How did that get there?
I guess some 14 years old actually thought it was a good song, which worries me a lot. But it must have been a lot of 14 year olds....
I suppose it's only inevitable. The charts reflect our society (at least in my opinion they do), even if we don't like what they are showing us.
What do we see when looking at the top 40? A load of pop stuff, sung by pretty people, going straight in really high, and then dropping swiftly the next week. I guess this tells us that we live in a society of instant gratification with no thought to the future. "Yep, this is good for now, it'll do." Then they get bored of it and go out buy some other stuff the next week.
Having said all that, we do seem to be seeing a return to form in the music scene, slowly but surely. In 1996 the radio was full of indie. Like, nearly every track.
Since then it's gone with pop, dance and rap. But there seems to be a light at the end of the tunnel. "Proper" music is starting to get some airplay again, which in my opinion is a good thing.
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