Originally posted by syrinx high priest
playing illuminati games does not make you illuminati

mp3's ruined the industry

no more albums, just singles

As a musician I think lack of originality killed the game. Everyone looking and sounding the same. It's prevalent is all types of music. Remember when Country singers looked like the guy next door? Not they have the pretty boy image too. I think that is one of the reason Rock music is on the backburner these days. It's harder to sell the fake image to the rock crowd. It was tried in the eighties but most of those bands were laughed at by the Zeppelin and headbanger crowd. IMO they are preparing the next generations for a one music world. I hope I am wrong.

Originally posted by FreebirdGirl

Originally posted by syrinx high priest
playing illuminati games does not make you illuminati

mp3's ruined the industry

no more albums, just singles

As a musician I think lack of originality killed the game.. It's harder to sell the fake image ..

I think there are other things going here... (some things cultural and economic)

Back in the days, you can live in many low income neighborhoods for a very small fraction of your income. This allowed artists to just hang out and play music all day. Nowadays you have to work for a larger portion of your life to make a living, leaving you with very little inspiration, time or energy for anything creative to occur.

The cultural climate was also happier back then, I think, it was a better vibe, people were happier in general.

Also back then music was a central form of entertainment which people shared and experienced together. It was more significant. People studied it and played instruments, at gatherings etc. I remember many of my friends had guitars and a lot of kids used to have garage bands.

Third, the people who have learned to capitalize on music have honed their techniques to a science. All efforts and thoughts are geared toward massive sales and very little effort or desire to make good music.

The availability and cultural use of mescaline and other hallucinogenics also probably contributed in a positive way to the art, culture and music of that time.

The music industry is really really bad umkay?

I gotta admit I just watched that whole Keysha oh wait im sorry "Key$ha" video. (whatever the F thats about) To be fair I watched it on mute because I ran out of aspirin and don't wanna risk a headache or possibly loosing the contents of my stomach.

Anywho. I found just the visual content of the video alone offensive. The satanic imagery I can deal with. (Although it's a WTF sorta thing that its even in there. Not even sure what the message behind the pentagrams is.) but in the video Its just offensively dumb and I wonder if keysha will have any dignity left or even develop any by the time she washes out of the industry in 5 months.

For those who don't feel like they're banging their head against a solid object for two minutes strait by watching the video I'll give you a synopsis. Dumb chick is carried by some dudes to a barn somewhere. She gets all empowered, kicks open the barn door, is dressed like a dominatrix or something and then fails to resist the urge to dance around for no reason for two minutes in a barn rave dance party with glowing pentagrams on the walls and illuminati triangles flying around. She proceeds to dive deeper into the skany, GHB dosed, party girl who either dies by 25 or just will look like she has, look as the video progresses. Then because her partying is so hardcore the cops come and shoot up her barn rave and then look like they are going to arrest her. Thats about it. Artistic genius at it's pinnacle keysha is.

Also whats wrong with her eyes. In each shot she's doing the squinty half hooded I think I'm being sexy but I really look like some dumb bitch on barbiturates look.

The video was a giant cesspool of trite, trendy, trashy imagery and lyrics. Devoid of any talent on either the artists side or the director or DP's side. Just a massive failure by the opinion of anyone with a critical eye or any degree of musical education, cultural sophistication, self respect, or whom is actually able to detect sound waves.

Theres no conspiracy in the music industry it just mirrors how pathetic, trite and unsophisticated american culture has become. This is what we deserve to listen to because its what we insist on. It's so classless. this pop music like keysha's it reflects who we are as a people these days. What we believe in.

To me it doesnt even matter what they put in that video because we will still watch it cross eyed and drooling like the moron chunk from goonies, going "yay! Me like video. WHore good! Me wanna be just like" and thats pretty much the thought process of the people who actually like keysha.

For all of those that actually like keyshas music, you're proof that being dropped on your head as a infant does indeed effect intelligence. like I said I don't actually have to listen to a single note of it to judge it, the video speaks well enough to represent every last thing about her. Worthless human garbage.

I saw that Ke$hia video on tv yesterday and I noticed everything you guys did.
The demonic industry is getting more and more blatant with the symbolism.

It's like their attitude is - "we no longer care if you can pick up on it or notice it anymore, we're gonna keep feeding this to the youth to have them ultimately corrupted". "Our plan for hip hop is working lovely". "The homosexual element is catching on and the constant push towards the criminal element (neglecting all positivity), is keeping the prisons full." "Good work guys but we aren't finished yet, keep it up".