The rubbish that my ears are subjected to!!

The stuff that comes out of the radio these days…. You cant call it the jukebox anymore, or the boombox, or whatever other fancy name that has been given to the radio…. Simply because nothing nice comes out of it…..

Its bad enough that things have gotten sooo commercialised, you hear more ads than anything else…. And irritating ones at that too…. Coupled with the annoying DJs, who more often than not either have the most annoying voice, an exaggerated “foreign” accent (or so they think), and lousy songs that hits the airwaves….

Well, not all DJs are bad, a small handful of them aren’t too bad…. There are some who I don’t mind listening to, though it helps that it takes me a mere 12 minutes to drive to work, hence my limited exposure to the radio…. But on days when it rains and I’m caught in a jam, without any CDs of my own in the car, then I’m in trouble….

The songs that are being churned out these days are simply too painful to the ears…. Well, my ears anyway…. Gone were the days when the melody was good, and the lyrics were smart and meaningful…. Now, its all about a catchy beat, it doesn’t matter what the song is all about as long as you can dance to it (this may not even be the case these days either!!!) while you don’t need to have a voice or talent, as long as you show off enough skin….. the state of the music these days is just disgraceful….

The most recent case in point has to be Paula Abdul…. I remember her fondly for the songs she gave us in the 80s, but her latest, “Dance Like There’s No Tomorrow” is just downright horrible…. She can no longer sing, the tune is non-existant, and the beat is downright annoying…. And to think she’s a judge on one of TV’s most popular reality show….. Do singers these days think its enough to speak into the mike, with a background beat to give the song its rhythm and timing?

I hate to live in the past, but the music in the 80s had the best rhythm and beat, whereas the 90s R&B has got the most soul in it…. The last noteworthy artiste that has emerged in the past 10 years has to be Craig David, I loved his 1st album, with catchy songs and incredibly smart and witty lyrics to go along with it…. But even he has fallen short of the lofty standards set by his first effort…..

So fed up am I that I have resorted to listening to various Spanish songs, which are more likely, jazz and lounge music when I feel tired and in need of something pleasant to listen to…. I hope when we enter the second decade of this century, the artistes will wake up and come up with better music…. I sure feel sorry for my kids who have nothing to look forward to otherwise…..