I wont lie though DVD technology is pretty damn awesome, I had to wait about 25 yrs though before I was finally able to watch a movie at home and not have to worry about rewinding it..but scratch a DVD and your house party will pretty much bail out on you . good thing i do still have some VHS backups just in case, right?
Music today just seems to suck ass. Sure theres a handful of bands out there that I may randomly choose to label as having some talent to a certain degree, but on the whole they seem to lack overall talent. I grew up in the in 1980's when most bands played their own damn instruments without any need of digital editing whatsoever. Heck, digital technology was barely beginning to surface in that time, which a lot of music aficiandos such as myself will note a varying audio difference between a track that has been digitally remastered and that which still retains the essence of being the actual master on the analog tape.
I have been crying a slow solemn tear ever since a lot of really good music began to fall right off the radio in favor of teeny-bopper boybands and R&B which have seemed to dominate the charts ever since music pirating has been a hot online commodity. In the days of free Napster, no one continued buying music anymore,.well no one with a computer and the ability to download free music, which means the music industry began to primarily dominated by prepubescent girls who seemed to be the only ones walked out of a record store and bought the newest Nsync or Backside Boys album with their monthly allowance. Whatever this specific demographic bought is what began to dominate the music charts and paved the shitty road ahead for other miserable acts like Justin Timberlake, Pink, Nelly, Mario, Bow Wow, and everyone else who thinks they have talent and are putting out album after album only because the only people left buying music from the music shops anymore are those people who wont be legally able to drive themselves to the nearest mall for another 4 to 5 yrs.
and whats with the "feature" thing now, it seems every other act today now has to "feature" another act. if they are calling themselves musicians, or artists,.dont they possess enough talent to go it out alone on their own damn song??...Nelly f/ Pink,..Timbaland f/ Nas...Wu-Tang Clan f/ Pussycat Dolls. Thats crazy! Prince never needed to feature Michael Jackson, and Kiss never needed to feature Tesla,.so why the hell is every other artist featuring someone? and why does this seem to be largely relegated towards the R&B and/or pop genre? sure is sending a strong message.
Right around 1999,.or maybe it was 2001 ( I cant remember exactly) the whole music industry took a head first dive into a sewer plant. Music began to suck. Rock just seemed to turn pussified in favor of punk rock. Even Gwen Stefani sold out and shedded her rock roots in favor of the R&B/pop that every other 13 yr old girl was buying in every corner record store.
Why are there more artists than ever now? it seems like every other damn week theres a brand new fresh artist in either the Pop genre or R&B genre coming out. Theres more shitty records to choose from than ever before now. Where's the quality control department in the recording industry?? Cause im not buying this bullshit that just anyone out there has talent and can make an album.
Why are more and more white guys acting like they are black? This isnt a racist view, so please dont try to twist this into one. Black folks are just as cool as white folks are. But for the love of Christ,.act normal. Justin Timberlake is the sorriest mainstream sellout excuse I have ever encountered. His voice sounds like a chipmunk, and I havent decided if its Alvin, Simon, or Theodore.
and this isnt just a rant thats targeted at any specific genre,.but really, all of them. Everything has taken a head-on crash into a mountain of crap. Country has gone Rock-pop. Pop has gone R&B-ish. Hip-Hop has became so fast that most of the lyrics sound like they are being voiced by an intoxicated incoherent Jamaican.
Dont even get me started on these silly bullshit shows like American Idol, America's got talent, and the like. Since when can anyone just sing a handful of songs to a studio audience that can be impressed with glazed dog manure as well, AND get a full-fledged recording deal as well??..WTF!?..whatever happened to bands having to play in countless bars and dives for many years before being even noticed by key individuals in the recording industry. thats a crock of shit is what that is.
a famous quote from the 1989 film "Black Rain"..."Movies and music is all America is good for!"
Well apparently that Japanese guy that said that was sorely mistaken, because America isnt even good for THAT anymore! Ive ranted enough about how music today sucks, so lets move onto movies.
I grew up in a time when most very other cartoon was HAND-DRAWN. Ouch! sore thumbs. Its required a lot of painstaking time to bring an animated classic to the big screen, but when it happened it looked awesome, and the vocal dialogue wasnt as cheesy as it is now. Theres almost no more animated films anymore. Only the diligent, hard working Japanese still make those, because Americans have no talent, and would much rather sit down in front of a computer with a graphics app and point and click and drag a mouse around all day to make a film.
Even George Lucas isnt walking around on the set, frantically worried about how rubber puppets wont work too well on the film like he did with all of the older Star Wars films. No. With this new pile of crap films, he just sat his grey fat ass in a comfy leather chair behind head nerd Rob Coleman and told him what to do and how long to do it for, while they both got drunken with inflatuence eating Flaming Hot Cheetos.
Then theres these famous people that tend to wear more occupational hats than the hardest working Jamaican. They are actor/film director/musician/comic/talk show/game show host. I cant seem to think of anyone right off the bat, but Queen Latifah, Will Smith, Whoopi Goldberg, Eddie Murphy, Jennifer Lopez, and a few others seem to come to mind.
lets move onto clothes. it seems every other kid is either trying to wear all black and don themselves black makeup, green hair, and doggy chains around their necks. what the fuck is this shit. if you went to my grade school looking like that back in the day, they would have kicked your ass and used the doggy chains to chain your count dickula-ass up to a see-saw on the playground. Only the black kids could get away with dressing crazy, and thats only back when Michael Jackson was black and he made parachute pants and weaing glittery gloves cool.
This post has been edited by blueoceans: 19 December 2007 - 01:56 PM