TH, you're right with the last portion of your post. There's lots of reasons for the current state of music. I'm not really one to crawl onto the rooftop just to scream about how much today's music totally suxorz, but it is a shame that actual bands have kind of gone by the wayside. Look around, there is no room in the music space for bands anymore. There's maybe a handful of popular ones and they sing indie-folk-pop (Looking at you Mumford). People want to take it back to the 80s and earlier, but really in the late 90s/early 2000s I think bands started becoming obsolete. Part of that is these reality shows turning waitresses into pop stars in a matter of weeks.
I'm going to stop myself right there with that train of thought for fear of ranting about today's music and sounding like every YouTube commenter I've ever hated. But it just falls in line with society in general; a sense of entitlement and severe lack of work ethic. Why tour in a $600 minivan and play 200 person capacity firehouses when you can just try out for a reality show? That's the mindset nowadays I think and it blows fat cock.
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