People who say that war can never be abolished because it has occurred for as long as humans have been on the earth don't seem to get it. Slavery had been part of human society for thousands and thousands of years, and in 1833 it was abolished, all across the world. Revolutions have swept across countries and have completely changed the way people lead their lives.
It's not that war cannot be abolished, because it most certainly can, it's that the politicians and the dictators don't want to prevent the destruction of the human race because they can make money out of it. The selfish bastards in the government are sabotaging the future of our entire species, our entire existence because they can make a profit by killing innocent people. It's sickening, and we must make a change. It's possible to chance society so drastically; it's happened in the past.
Saturday, 23 June 2012
Sunday, 17 June 2012
As promised...
The music industry is the thing, the entity that makes me most angry. The fact that 'popular' music nowadays isn't about the music makes me sick. It's about the profit the record labels get by ramming dreadful 'musicians' down our throats. If you listen to the radio, something like Heart, you'll be able to hear it - corny, autotuned drivel by some so called singer who is talking about a girl they broke up with or a boy who broke up with them. It's bullshit, all of it. I'm not going to enforce my music taste upon my friends; they can like whatever music they want to like, but it makes me rather upset that the only emotions popular music ever portrays are sadness and love. That's it. Every single song on the radio nowadays is a four chord song will all synthesised instruments with some bloke nobody has ever heard of talking about how he'd take a bullet for his girl.
I'm not saying that there shouldn't be love songs, of course not, but I see music as a way of conveying all feelings, all emotions. For someone to hear an angry song and say 'Ew, it's shouty, I don't like it' makes me sick to my stomach. Angry music, in my opinion, is the best kind of music. Being able to crank your speakers up as loud as they can go and just belt lyrics at the top of your voice for all to hear is the most fantastic feeling in the world, and I can tell you it's all the more satisfying to scream 'WE ARE FUCKING ANGRY' to whoever the hell is listening. I never liked the King Blues, until, rather ironically, they split up. The message they send feels a lot more personal than, say, Shikari. They were just regular people tackling regular issues, but at the same time they created fantastic, angry music that I could scream myself if I was down. The same goes for Architects, who were a victim of being throttled by their record label. The Here and Now to any true Architects fan was a pile of wank, and they were commissioned into creating it by their company. They hated the album themselves, and I for one am so happy they've found a way of creating music by their rules again. Some songs on Daybreaker are so angry, and some others are so emotional, it's just brilliant.
I guess that defines a truly fantastic musician - the talent and the creativity to make music that doesn't all sound the same, that doesn't fit one genre and that doesn't sound like complete shit. The fact that all music nowadays is manufactured to fit the style of music the majority of the populace enjoys... It makes me fear for the future of music. There will always be true musicians, but they are getting pushed further and further under the blanket of unoriginal shit being force fed to us.
There are three lines by The King Blues, that mean more to me than almost any other.
'So shine your light so bright, that all can see,
Take pride in being whoever the fuck you want to be.
Throw your fist in the air, in solidarity, and shout "Viva la punk, just one life, anarchy!"'
I'm not saying that there shouldn't be love songs, of course not, but I see music as a way of conveying all feelings, all emotions. For someone to hear an angry song and say 'Ew, it's shouty, I don't like it' makes me sick to my stomach. Angry music, in my opinion, is the best kind of music. Being able to crank your speakers up as loud as they can go and just belt lyrics at the top of your voice for all to hear is the most fantastic feeling in the world, and I can tell you it's all the more satisfying to scream 'WE ARE FUCKING ANGRY' to whoever the hell is listening. I never liked the King Blues, until, rather ironically, they split up. The message they send feels a lot more personal than, say, Shikari. They were just regular people tackling regular issues, but at the same time they created fantastic, angry music that I could scream myself if I was down. The same goes for Architects, who were a victim of being throttled by their record label. The Here and Now to any true Architects fan was a pile of wank, and they were commissioned into creating it by their company. They hated the album themselves, and I for one am so happy they've found a way of creating music by their rules again. Some songs on Daybreaker are so angry, and some others are so emotional, it's just brilliant.
I guess that defines a truly fantastic musician - the talent and the creativity to make music that doesn't all sound the same, that doesn't fit one genre and that doesn't sound like complete shit. The fact that all music nowadays is manufactured to fit the style of music the majority of the populace enjoys... It makes me fear for the future of music. There will always be true musicians, but they are getting pushed further and further under the blanket of unoriginal shit being force fed to us.
There are three lines by The King Blues, that mean more to me than almost any other.
'So shine your light so bright, that all can see,
Take pride in being whoever the fuck you want to be.
Throw your fist in the air, in solidarity, and shout "Viva la punk, just one life, anarchy!"'
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