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So I wrote this on May 20th and put it up on myspace but I decided to take it off and edit it because I've had more time to think about it. So here we go. I bolded the parts for the tl;dr crowd.
Today in my english class, one of the things that made my ears open as wide as they could was the fact that mainstream music was being dismissed as a bad thing. I'm going to use Panic at the Disco for my example. Panic at the Disco is mainstream and yes they do have a teen following that has sparked many different trends but at the end of they day, its music and there is someone out there who is hearing one of their songs for the first time ever. I'm not going to deny it. I love Panic at the Disco. I don't love them for some of the reasons that it seems a lot of people love them for. I love them for the lyrics. To me, thats what is the most important thing about the lyrics. Lyrics are poems. It doesn't matter if its rock, if its rap, or if its country. At some point those lyrics were just words without a melody. I understand that people are frustrated with mainstream but honestly if you look at mainstream in a different perspective, its not bad. I listen to mainstream music but I also listen to independent music too. I love listening to artists who produce their own music and promote it themselves without the help of MTV but at the same time I'm not going to quit listening to the radio or watching Fuse just because "its mainstream".
Independent music is becomming mainstream. It's so trendy to hate mainstream right now. Everyone is suddenly turning to independent artists. So technically there really isn't an independent musid industry anymore is there.
I'm not going to lie to anyone. I listen to EVERY type of music out there from my sister's orchestra to the new panic at the disco cd to kanye west to rascall flatts. I really don't care what genre it is or what's currently popular. I listen to it because it inspires me. It gives me emotions. It makes me think about the lyrics and it makes me relate them to a time in my life. Music is more than just fancy beats or melodies played through good sound system. Music is lyrics. Music is emotions. Music is life.
Myspace.
These days it seems almost everyone has a myspace and it also seems that everyone has similar pictures. Even more, since the creation of myspace, there's this group of girls that look exactly alike. Everyone knows the "scene queens" and the wannabe "scene queens" They have the same hair, the same clothes, the same tattoos. They do all this stuff to get attention on myspace. They talk about how they know guys in bands and hang out with them all the time and they talk about how wild the parties they go to are. The talk about their "so called clothing line" and how they are models and even some of them go as far to call themselves artists and photographers.
I'm not going to lie. I have short layers in my hair that I tease up every day. I wear make-up because I like to. I take pictures because pictures help keep memories from fading away. I wear skinny jeans, flats and band tees not because " I think i'm sooooo unique" because i like my style. I'm not going to change because my style has become mainstream. I have a myspace obviously. I discovered myspace through a Good Charlotte messageboard back in the 6th grade. I've had once ever since. I really don't care what people think about it. Say what you want. Because of myspace I've heard some really amazing music and made some really amazing friendships. I don't use my myspace to go around announcing that I'm selling prints of myself to kids who worship me because I know how to use the contrast button on photoshop. Thats not art and its sad that girls on myspace are becomming famous for taking a photoshopped picture and selling to millions of people. There's no reason for that and honestly its quite creepy. But people are going to buy it because they are insecure with themselves and want to see what society is considering A) pretty and B) mainstream.
Anyone who knows me knows that I am not closed off to just one group of people. My friends are so varied you wouldn't even know how to begin to catagorize it. Take my best friend for example, She is someone you'd list the scholastic catagory. She's super intelligent and takes classes that challenge her knowledge. She doesn't dress to make herself fit in a "clique". When you see us together you see her and then you look at me and see my skinny jeans, flats, eyeliner, hair and then you go "Those two are best friends?" We may be completely opposite but inside we both think almost identically. I dress the way I do because I like it. I don't do it so I can get new friends on myspace. I don't dress the way I do to get friends. I don't do anything for other people. I do things for myself. I do things for me.
Today in my english class, one of the things that made my ears open as wide as they could was the fact that mainstream music was being dismissed as a bad thing. I'm going to use Panic at the Disco for my example. Panic at the Disco is mainstream and yes they do have a teen following that has sparked many different trends but at the end of they day, its music and there is someone out there who is hearing one of their songs for the first time ever. I'm not going to deny it. I love Panic at the Disco. I don't love them for some of the reasons that it seems a lot of people love them for. I love them for the lyrics. To me, thats what is the most important thing about the lyrics. Lyrics are poems. It doesn't matter if its rock, if its rap, or if its country. At some point those lyrics were just words without a melody. I understand that people are frustrated with mainstream but honestly if you look at mainstream in a different perspective, its not bad. I listen to mainstream music but I also listen to independent music too. I love listening to artists who produce their own music and promote it themselves without the help of MTV but at the same time I'm not going to quit listening to the radio or watching Fuse just because "its mainstream".
Independent music is becomming mainstream. It's so trendy to hate mainstream right now. Everyone is suddenly turning to independent artists. So technically there really isn't an independent musid industry anymore is there.
I'm not going to lie to anyone. I listen to EVERY type of music out there from my sister's orchestra to the new panic at the disco cd to kanye west to rascall flatts. I really don't care what genre it is or what's currently popular. I listen to it because it inspires me. It gives me emotions. It makes me think about the lyrics and it makes me relate them to a time in my life. Music is more than just fancy beats or melodies played through good sound system. Music is lyrics. Music is emotions. Music is life.
Myspace.
These days it seems almost everyone has a myspace and it also seems that everyone has similar pictures. Even more, since the creation of myspace, there's this group of girls that look exactly alike. Everyone knows the "scene queens" and the wannabe "scene queens" They have the same hair, the same clothes, the same tattoos. They do all this stuff to get attention on myspace. They talk about how they know guys in bands and hang out with them all the time and they talk about how wild the parties they go to are. The talk about their "so called clothing line" and how they are models and even some of them go as far to call themselves artists and photographers.
I'm not going to lie. I have short layers in my hair that I tease up every day. I wear make-up because I like to. I take pictures because pictures help keep memories from fading away. I wear skinny jeans, flats and band tees not because " I think i'm sooooo unique" because i like my style. I'm not going to change because my style has become mainstream. I have a myspace obviously. I discovered myspace through a Good Charlotte messageboard back in the 6th grade. I've had once ever since. I really don't care what people think about it. Say what you want. Because of myspace I've heard some really amazing music and made some really amazing friendships. I don't use my myspace to go around announcing that I'm selling prints of myself to kids who worship me because I know how to use the contrast button on photoshop. Thats not art and its sad that girls on myspace are becomming famous for taking a photoshopped picture and selling to millions of people. There's no reason for that and honestly its quite creepy. But people are going to buy it because they are insecure with themselves and want to see what society is considering A) pretty and B) mainstream.
Anyone who knows me knows that I am not closed off to just one group of people. My friends are so varied you wouldn't even know how to begin to catagorize it. Take my best friend for example, She is someone you'd list the scholastic catagory. She's super intelligent and takes classes that challenge her knowledge. She doesn't dress to make herself fit in a "clique". When you see us together you see her and then you look at me and see my skinny jeans, flats, eyeliner, hair and then you go "Those two are best friends?" We may be completely opposite but inside we both think almost identically. I dress the way I do because I like it. I don't do it so I can get new friends on myspace. I don't dress the way I do to get friends. I don't do anything for other people. I do things for myself. I do things for me.
