2 things i have to apologize for, 1. I said i was going to start doing movie reviews every week and never did it... yeah my bad. And 2. I've been dead for like... a month or something. Sorry, i recently got a job and it's been sucking the energy out of me, that and my friends have been too. So I got a social life! Be happy for me!
Anyways i figured it was time to continue on my music post, i wanted to continue on what i was saying about rap and hip hop. Plus i've just been thinking about music and felt like ranting about something.
In my last Music post, i was talking bad about hip-hop, basically saying that it lacked artistic merit, and that it was really stupid compared to its better counterparts. But this isn't to say i hate hip hop. I love hip hop, just when it's done well. And there are a lot of people who do it well! There's also the second form of hip hop: R&B. That's where this music really shines. Artists like Al Green, Kci and Jojo, Mary J. Blige, Micheal Jackson; there are just so many artists who define this genre. They make hip hop what it is. My problem is whenever i think of hip-hop i think of them, and whenever someone else does they think of whoever is popular right now.
Point is that hip-hop is just so...generic nowadays. When i said there's no artistic meaning in it, i mean you can sing about anything, but the beat and the vocals are why we're listening to it, not the lyrics. Rap is all about lyrics and flow, and Rock trumps it all, because Rock is about everything, the music, the beat, the melody, the flow and the lyrics. Hip hop though, people just want something pleasant to listen too, and that's fine! A lot of people just want to listen to something that promotes a good calm mood, promotes energy, and isn't too strange to sing in public. I can understand that really, but that's why it's boring to me. I like something that attracts my attention.
Let me metaphorize it for a bit. Let's say the world is a bus and music is people. Rap would be the guy walking up and down the bus talking to random people telling them things he thinks they should know. Rock would be the guy with a mean look on his face ready to start a fight with anyone. Pop would be the teenage girl in the back of the bus giggling over a text with a cute boy. Country would be the mid-30's rough lookin' dude looking out the window, Spanish music would be the guy flirting with all the girls on the bus, and Hip-hop would be the mid 20's guy sitting down watching all this. Of all these, which person do you want to talk to?
Now to be fair, this isn't completely accurate. There are soooo many genre's of music, that metaphor would've filled up 2 and a half buses, i just went for standard music types and built on their stereotypes. I could go deeper but i eventually want to sleep and i write these things at like 2 in the morning so give me a break. It's 4.
Anyways, my point is that yes hip-hop is the stickers of music, and compared to trip-hop it's a caveman, but it doesn't mean it's bad. I love hip-hop, i do. I just think it needs to be done better. There are artists that are good, but hip-hop really isn't that big. People just want something to dance to nowadays. You can't blame them, but honestly i can't dance 24/7, which is why my tastes are so diverse. But i know where mainstream is coming from. My best friend in the whole world is mainstream, He really liked Katy Perry's Teenage Dream, and right now is going through a fad of liking anything to do with House and dubstep.. so LMFAO and Deadmau5.
And me? I like underground stuff. My favorite Dubstep DJ is Ephixa on youtube. If you don't know who that is check them out, he's awesome. And Pogo too, favorite DJ in the world is Pogo. I like music that has meaning, or a gimmick, something that makes it interesting or relatable. Something that makes you think or makes you feel. It's why i'm sort of a hipster with music, generic just feeds off of that and has no sincerity. I love sincerity. Sincerity is the most important part of music, but that's also where we're lacking.
