- Feb 11, 2003
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So I listen to deltron. I think of what Anton Wilson says in his forward to promethious rising. Something like, education in the schools surrounding the "generation x" has been dumbed down to a muddy point. Education in general has lost it's worth. Some people of this generation relize they've been screwed out of something, but even those people lack the zest to find out what it is. I think that might be what I've been searching for. I think we're all pretty mindless, and maybe it hasn't always been this way. I keep thinking about how pop artists keep covering songs from the 60s and 70s. Maybe pop artists have always covered great songs, but it seems like it's more and more. What has happened here? Has creativity gone down the tubes? Can't anyone wright a decent, meaningful song? Why is the majority of pop music so gross? I think the Beatles were considered "pop" in their time, what the fvck happened since those times? I remember somebody saying something about how brittney spears sucks. Cal came to her defence saying that she's got more talent in her finger that all of us combined. I do think she has talent. She has a good voice, she can dance. So I wonder if you can call a preformer an artist. I don't think spears writes her own songs. So is she really creating anything? She doesn't make up the dance moves either. She's actually just singing and dancing things that other people have created. This is the majority of "pop" stuff. Wilson has also said that this generation is very paranoid and afraid, which is probably a result of the lack of understanding/education. Maybe spears is afraid to write her own music in fear that it would be rejected. I doubt it though. I'm sure her managers forbid her from creating. So many classic songs from the 60s and 70s have been covered. The frightning thing to me is that we don't know when a song is covered. Some new age pop star covers a simon and garfunkle song adding a dance track to it, and everybody thinks, "wow.. that's a good song." and we have no clue that they are recieving credit for someone else's creation. I don't think that's fair or right. I think it would be fine if in the very begining of the song they stated that it was a cover from so and so. Then we'd all know it's this bands interpretation of the old song.
Generation x, we really don't have a clue. We don't even really know when someone does a horrible fvcking cover of a rolling stones song. I think preformers and artists are different things. Huh. the 60s and 70s, seems like there wasn't much going on in europe at that time. For good reason I guess, they were recovering from a 30 years war, basically. Right? America on the other hand, we were having a "sexual revolution". I'd like to know more about what was going on in the country during that time, culturaly, and why pop artists keep covering songs from that era. I start typing here and I end up asking more questions than I answer. Hopefully this is a sign of a healthy courisoity.
Generation x, we really don't have a clue. We don't even really know when someone does a horrible fvcking cover of a rolling stones song. I think preformers and artists are different things. Huh. the 60s and 70s, seems like there wasn't much going on in europe at that time. For good reason I guess, they were recovering from a 30 years war, basically. Right? America on the other hand, we were having a "sexual revolution". I'd like to know more about what was going on in the country during that time, culturaly, and why pop artists keep covering songs from that era. I start typing here and I end up asking more questions than I answer. Hopefully this is a sign of a healthy courisoity.
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