Music, Superman, and Peter Griffin.
I totally forgot how to make posts on this site, but I just sent out an email to the guys that I wanted to post and dave remembered my username for me. Thanks Dave, Yo-Yo Ma is my hero and you do good impressions of Ben Park.
Anyways, I wanted to vent here on the current music scene, so here's an updated and revised edition on my analysis of Music 2005 - Starting the Year without a Bang!
I just had a revelation about the recent age of music that is 2005, while listening to the radio (R.I.P. 99.1 Whfs). If you can all agree, it sucks more than falling over in a public outhouse. I swear, don't you guys think that there's nothing really out there anymore. Bands are just recycling the same old crap over and over again. I feel like artists are just getting lazy or using someone else's stuff to gain fame (ahem, Yes, I'm talking to you Miss Ashley Simpson). Yes, we are downloading their music, but we only do it cause the whole album sucks more than spaghetti day in elementary school (I swear, one time I puked it up during 3rd grade lunch and covered it with a napkin, and I was none the wiser)! If you can right some more decent songs per cd, I know I'd buy it. But I realized something as I heard some songs on the radio. There's always a certain trend where a band thinks a word is so cool they have to use it in a song. Actually I think I just got annoyed cause I heard 2 bands who have songs that not only sound the same but have the same word in the title, don't ya just hate that...
Here is my Analysis:
1. The word, "Cold." Breaking Benjamin - the song: "So Cold," and Crossfade - the song: "Cold."
I mean, C'mon! granted, yes, they may have come up with this on their own and it just so happened that they both came up with songs about people being cold, but c'mon! Write about something else or use different words. I mean, the songs aren't half bad, but it just made me hate them cause they sound the same.
2. Songs about "Superman." There are about a handful of songs that bands have made about this American Iconic Super Hero. Here are the ones I have come up with: Spin Doctors - Pocket full of Kryptonite, Our Lady Peace - Superman's Dead, 3 Doors Down - Kryptonite, Five for Fighting - Superman (it's not easy).
What is it about superman that makes people want to write songs about him. I mean, if it's been done, it's been done. I know as current and former artists, we always try to write songs about original stuff. I mean c'mon, no one's ever written another song about farm animal puppets and that's the way it should remain.
There's probably a very good explanation for all this, but I'm just venting about the music industry to you guys for 2 reasons: 1. I know you guys are the only ones that would understand and I had to just tell someone, it was killing me to keep it in, and 2. I would have put this on the okaysamurai site, but I forgot how, which is no longer true, cause I just did, so please void reason #2.
But the good thing is that: FAMILY GUY WILL BE RETURNING TO NETWORK TELELVISION!! Dude you don't know how excited I am about this. And afterwards, the premiere of AMERICAN DAD will follow, also from the creators of FAMILY GUY. May 1st, 9:00 on Fox, the folks that brought you the critically acclaimed "Who's Your Daddy" (which was by far the worst reality show idea ever). So, mark your calendars.
Thursday, January 20 at 8:13 AM
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