When a band like "THE MILLIONARES" and "BROKENCYDE" are playing Warped Tour, there is seriously something wrong with the music scene. But who do we blame? Since I tend to play devil's advocate, I'm going to point the fingers at the bands who make REAL music, not the shitty bands who are smart enough to exploit the wallets of idiots who spend money on these shows/albums.
When bands start talking about politics, and depressing shit constantly, people say "hey we want to hear something silly, or happy!" That's how terrible people that are involved in the above bands wind up on WARPED TOUR.
I guess one of the things that bothers me more than anything is ANY band that consists of a person, or persons that are incredibly rich. I'll straight up say it, a local band around here called "PUSH PLAY", that for some inexplicable reason is "big". I soon found out that the mom is a multi millionaire.
I'm just curious. Do these pieces of shit that become "rockstars" because of tons of cash to back them up, actually have a soul? Do they wake up one day and say "wow I want to be a rockstar mom!" Do they get dumped by their rich girlfriend and then decide that suddenly their soul is conjuring up music that the world needs to hear? I mean, I don't get it!
I don't really get angry about a lot of things, and earlier I was intent on writing a blog about how pissed I am that I have nothing to bitch about. But this is something I feel I need to write about it. It's a joke!
Look, my songs aren't CLAPTON material, but they're all from the fucking heart dude! Nah, fuck that, they're straight from the soul! Incontrovertibly, it comes from inside! I feel like anyone who's got songs that aren't like that, should be banned from playing music!
To ban them, people have to stop buying their CDs. To get people to stop buying their cds, other people have to start making good music! And stop talking about politics! Mainly I'm talking about bands like Green Day! These rich rockstars are still bitching about America? Can you really bitch about the land you rape?
Really, if I become rich one day, I guess I'll plan on hanging this up. That's why I only want to have 3 albums. I have 3 albums worth of stellar material now, and I never want to write songs because I want to sell out. I want to use the songs I have, and when my soul feels like it's got no more words to put into music, I'll hang up the guitar! People are so out of touch.
And I'm a little stressed today because my band was supposed to practice all day, and nobody is here. It's 7pm, and I've been at the studio all day by myself working ons hit. I'm angry because everyday we don't practice is another day that we could be saving the music scene. Everyday that SUMMERS LAST WAVE does nothing, is another day that we are wasting our lives. It's another soul that could have been saved by one of our songs. It's another person who could have said "holy shit, I always wondered what happened to this style of pop punk?"
I also want to only do 3 albums because I never want to change my sound. Most people expect you to "develop and mature". It's something that can be done without changing your sound entirely. I notice too many of these new "electronica/white boy rap" bands were former emo kids that changed scenes only when they realized they were going nowhere.
And when I see another band that tries to "look cute" and writes terribly generic songs, I almost want to laugh at any girl that falls for it! I mean, yeah it's different being a dude. That's why we don't listen to that shit. But why the hell would anyone start a band with the main goal to be "sell music to girls!" Why shouldn't your goal be "make music for everybody!"
Well, in case you hadn't guessed, thats my goal! Full length should be done in about a month, and everything I just bitched about here, will be displayed in one of my songs! Blah blah blah, back to singing practice! There is a terrible band in the other room, and I'm getting sick of hearing it!
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