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I was reading the article added by Mega the other day from James Hoare - News/Online Editor. You can all be pissed at me, add all the nasty bitchy comments you wish, but Mega and James Hoare are totally and completely correct. Today’s generation seems to be in a total disconnect. It does not matter what kind of music you listen to. You can listen to Trash Metal or the music from the fucking American Idol winners, but it seems that many from the under 30 set are in a total disconnect.
When I say this, I don’t mean all from that generation and younger, but many. I have a 21 year old daughter, and I know she is. Whatever she dose not want to hear from people or deal with, she cuts them off, or it off. Going into her own cocoon be it her iPod, or circle of friends that act like robots sharing her own opinions, listening to what she does, watching what she does.
The music started taking a dive a good ten years ago, because people starting purchasing entire CD‘s. Napster came out of nowhere allowing people to get a one or two songs off a CD at a time. Artist bitched they where loosing money, Napster was shut down, and IPOD’S and ITUNES where born, along with a paid version of Napster and many more paid for sites where you could just purchase the 1 or 2 songs you like, rather than getting to know the entire CD front and back like we had to.
Blame it on media, Video games, the limited time parents had to spend with their children, but something went very wrong in the very late 20th century that is still going wrong as we sit in the early 21st century. A total disconnect from life. We live in a society that allows us too many choices, in life, of merchandise, and in the case we are talking about music. The two second attention span in king and those who sell to young people love it. For those of you that claim to love music, you may be killing exactly what you love. You request the same things over and over. Know little of what came before, and probably know little of what would be considered the B side of the Musicians music you so claim to love. You hear some of their music on BrainGell, but do you have any of their full CD’s?
I admit I purchase singular songs from ITUNES myself, usually though I also buy songs from the same artist that I haven’t heard. If I like the songs I haven’t heard, I purchase more, eventually ending up with most of the CD. I also purchase older music that I never replaced my old albums with CD’s, or some one hit wonder shit.
But I do not play video games; I know we have a war raging in the Middle East, a Presidential Election coming up. Our music industry is in a crisis right now. To me it dos not matter that it is Heavy Metal, or Pop. It is in danger. I live in a large urban area; the Tower Records closed its doors recently, as well as several other chains. People do not visit record stores anymore. They visit their home computers to download a few songs, and if an artist is lucky someone may buy the entire new CD from time to time.
I admit I am guilty too. The only time I go into a store and buy actual CD’s is during my husband and youngest daughter’s birthdays or Christmas. It is easier to just download the music, but I do not want my 13 year old to be totally disconnected, and like me, I do want her to someday have a collection of CD’s around the house that she can just slip into her CD player and listen to the entire thing, and know all the songs to.
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