In Britain at least, the quality of the music papers has gradually disintegrated into the blend of soggy shite we have now. A certain once-great publication has become nothing but a tabloid, raping the great and pimping the whores. Even more sadly, I fear this is only a reflection upon the music industry today. Being ‘original’ is trendy, ‘Indie’ is trendy – sounding like ‘the real thing’ is trendy. Though of course it doesn’t. You can’t sound real if you sound like something else.
I have very strong ideas about how the music industry should be, and this is wrong, wrong, wrong. As long as I have been reading the music press, and probably for many years before, it has been touted that this is a golden musical era, that we’re in the midst of a musical revolution, which is simply not true. Manipulating teenagers to buy into the magic is not the way it should be – if it’s shite then tell you them it’s shite!
We don’t appreciate being lied to.
