So here it is - a brand new blog. Facing the Music was an idea I had after I was listening to the radio and became increasingly frustrated at the rubbish many of the stations were playing.
This made me ask myself a question: why is modern music so crap? It struck me that the charts these days are full of identikit pop and what trendy people like to call "R 'n' B," despite such "music" having absolutely no elements of rhythm and blues, which the name stands for.
Whenever I have radio stations on that play mainly modern songs, I often don't realise when one song ends and another begins because so much of today's popular music sounds identical.
Of course, that is not to say that there isn't any talent around anymore. It's just that genuinely good music requires a bit (or in some cases, a lot) of digging to find.
This is where Facing the Music comes into the equation. The idea of this blog is to focus on two songs every day. One will highlight what I see as the tragic nature of modern "pop" and the identikit, manufactured nature in which it is produced. The second will be an alternative contemporary song of the same (or at least a similar) genre that is a lesser-known but infinitely better with vastly more talented musicians.
I intend my critique to be as scathing as necessary, so expect a lot of personal bias and possibly a few curses to boot! The idea is to show how the corporate nature of the industry today is stripping away talent to reduce songs to no more than meaningless trash that even a feotus could produce, in order to make a quick buck. It will also showcase bands and singers that have relatively little attention, but who have bags of talent.
I'm open to suggestions from anyone as to which songs should be in each section. If you hate modern chart music as much as me, get involved, feel free to comment and perhaps even get offended when one of your favourite artists gets a drubbing on this blog!
Enjoy.
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