O hello strangers!
I've been listening to more pop and top 40 music the last few months. I think one reason is the OZfm changing their radio play AGAIN - first it was the best of both worlds, classic rock and today's best - then for some stupid reason it was all classic rock, and now it's all today's best music. I'm glad it's back to some 2012 tunes. The radio isn't really radio without some pop music! I know one other reason I'm hearing the new-er music is I have my television set to go to Much More Music every day at 9:30pm so if I'm in the room or whatever, Pop Up Video comes on. If there was a Pop Up Video channel, I'd be all over it. Anyway now the radio is a mix of everything... you have your KRock music, your OZfm today's music, and then something for everyone on CBC Radio 2. Yes, we have three FM stations.
Everyone gets uppity when you talk about music and there's many a discussion to be had: oh this one doesn't write their own lyrics, that guy's a douche, this one's lip-syncing, that one's a product of a music label, this music sounds like someone else's music, beats aren't music, everyone sounds like T-Pain, country music sucks, blah blah blah, etc etc etc. It will never end. Never.
Do I have musical preferences? Duh. Lately I'm in to a bunch of Canadian artists for the simple fact that over the last year I'm loving the music on CBC Radio 2 (at least in the mornings and the evenings... no offense classical/Tempo, but you're not my thing). I like my singer song-writers, I like getting my dancing shoes out to some Lady Gaga, I love country music from when I was a kid, I love the 90's, and whatever else makes me daydream or dance. Here are some music links, not all canucks, check out this talent!!
- www.shermandowney.ca/
- www.elliottbrood.ca/
- www.andrewjamesobrien.com/
- www.theshins.com/
- www.yukonblonde.com/
- www.emmgryner.com/
- www.sarahharmer.com
- www.heyrosetta.com/
- www.matthewhornell.com/
- www.joelplaskett.com/
My simple wish for music and the people who enjoy it? Enjoy what you like, and just frig off. Why is there so much complaining and hate about a band or singer or rapper. Change the station, put on your own CD's. Leave everyone else alone.
My point in this before I started ranting: Everyone's singing about the same thing. If you're rapping or sing yelling, singing sweet songs or jamming like William Shatner, pretty much the same themes don't you think? Love, love lost, having a good time or bad time, or anything else important to you that for whatever reason someone feels the need to tell a story about (like your truck, or your grillz). So maybe Garth Brooks isn't singing as cryptically as Bob Dylan, but I bet they'd share some stories about 'da ladies, even if it was just for scientific purposes and if they wouldn't really mesh and be friends outside of my experiment.
I'll try and write again sometime.
-AMB
