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Originally Posted by KyleSchmidt
Okay, so this has been bothering me for quite some time now.
To me, it seems like all the songs that you hear on the radio in today's world is talking about clubbing, sex, drugs, and everything along those lines. And quite frankly, I wanted to start a topic.
Lady Gaga, Lil Wayne, Brittany Spears, and the list goes on.
It's mostly rap and pop that has been effecting the minds the most.
So I wanted ya'lls opinion; do you think that these popular music artists are a bad influence?
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The worst thing about these aesthetic scenes in my mind is the wholesale spread of banal and mindless mediocrity. Sex, drugs and clubbing are just part of that scene these days. It's the return of disco. A lack of true art... fearlessness, is what popular culture is missing these days. They parade a pretty girl in skanky clothes and call her brave, a virtuoso, taught to dance and sing before she can remember. They give an ugly black dude lots of bling and groupies, and they call him an artist. They construct these mind parasites from the toddler up. These people rarely know who they are, until their publicist eventually reminds them who they are supposed to be. Some might think that this makes them befitting for your sympathy. I don't think so. They sold themselves at the knowledge that they would be torn apart and depleted by mass media exposure and widespread consumerism. Buy the ticket, take the ride. The worst to me is that people love it. It's a tradition. There's no room for the tearing down of walls and the crumbling of illusions in popular culture. It makes people think too much, and when they're busy thinking, they're not busy buying.
But this makes for interesting point. If true art were to become mainstream, then it would be the non-intellectuals - the fashion bitches and the agents, the druggies and the skeezers, the sluts and the thugs - that would become the outcasts. They would be the underground. And they would be seen as the avante-guard. It might be a Golden Age for art, thought and feeling on the whole, but those that are at the forefront today would be receiving the same glory for being stalwart and dogged and determined that the underground artists of now are receiving.