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JUST A LITTLE BIT

whatever happened to creativity and originality?  ”music groups” today are spending millions of dollars on supposedly “creative” songwriters that all write about the same things; sex, and drugs, and alcohol. its like the 60s all over again, with out the subtlety of the lyrics (points awarded to me for making up words again).

I’m picking on two songs today, the aptly named “Too Drunk…” by Buckcherry (the “…” supposedly stands for “too fuck”) and the latest party music hit “Tik Tok” by Ke$ha (double points for spelling). They are epitomes of today’s music writing (in)capabilities.

The lyrics from “Too Drunk” include “I’m getting drunk all night oh I’m getting drunk all day yeah I’m getting drunk all night, I’m sorry but I have to say I’m to drunk to fuck”. I really would like to meet the musical mastermind that wrote this waste of musical breath. A dozen monkeys blindfolded could probably write this with one arm tied behind their back. The song also talks about how he quits his job go party and (pardon my French) fuck and take some LSD. I’m terrified that some children and young adults listen to this drivle. That not only does it set a bad example (I feel like an overprotective Mother) but it also encourages them to treat sex like it’s just… a thing.

“Tik Tok” isn’t much better. Apparently Ke$ha brushes her teeth with a bottle of Jack and only goes with guys that look like Mick Jagger. I love the Rolling Stones and all but he’s got to be at least 60 something. Don’t you think that as a young woman you want to be with someone who doesn’t look like a wrinkly scrodum (sorry Mick), also using Jack Daniels for dental hygeine would make your face look like someone tried to put out a fire with a fork….helllooooo kesha!

Whatever happened to artists like Jimi Hendrix? In November I visited the Experience Music Project in Seattle, Washington and I saw Hendrix’s hand written song lyrics on everything from restauraunt napkins to hotel bedside stationary. I was also fortunate enough to see the journal in which “Voodoo Child Slight Return” was written. The journal was riddled with little doodles and words that did or didn’t become songs. Now music is written by unimaginative morons or probably the lyrics are spat out of a computer.

Kudos to bands such as Marina and the Diamonds, Crash Kings, Wolfmother, etc who have held their own in the wave of poorly produced and written music, and every other band’s lyrics which actually make you use todays dormant muscle, aka the brain