Pages

Subscribe:

Thursday, March 4, 2010

The Five Bad Points of Mainstream Pop Music

1. The actors in the music video
If it's a music video like g6 then you will most likely hate the video aspect, everyone is pretty much annoying, even the people singing the song. And this is one of the reasons I listen to Asian pop music; in Asia they're pretty big on pop groups, and they're not like the black eyed peas...(shudder) No, they dance in the videos, so they aren't looking at the camera trying to be cool but coming off as a total.

2. Stupid lyrics.
Most people complain about the lyrics in songs not rhyming, but in my opinion those people need to shut up. Songs don't have to rhyme, but if you're going to make some of the song rhyme and then give up half way through, that's just not acceptable.
Or, the problem could just be stupid lyrics. Sometimes they can go off on to something that has nothing to do with the subject of the song, or the song can be about something entirely stupid like getting drunk constantly. (good job music industry.)

Who do you think we have to blame for teens going out and getting wasted...well apart from their parents, or the person's personality and intelligence? Music! Music that keeps reinforcing the idea that cool people go to parties and get drunk all the time. And all American teens seem to care about is being cool, normally I wouldn't say that we should act more like the Japanese as they're not exactly perfect, but the Japanese encourage their kids to be nerds, and a nerd does not mean an annoying person whom constantly has a cold or only cares about their studies. You can be good at school and still be cool. If I could mention a nerd who got top billing I would say Light from Death Note, but he's insane, he kind of went around killing people... But he got all the ladies!... and then killed them...Ya... I'll stop talking now...

3. Guest verses.
Annoying guest verses, sometimes songs have a guest who sings a bit, and most of us think the song would be much better without them, like JYJ's 'Ayy Girl' (though it was, obviously, a stupid name for a song, and the music video wasn't very good even if the song was.)

The song was ruined by the guest verse at the beginning by Kanye West, who was (briefly) an interwebs meme. Or, sometimes guest verses can be used to point something out, for example G-Dragons heart breaker met with complaints because people were saying that he had stolen part of his song from the rapper Flo Rida. (I don't even know if that's how you spell the guys name, and am I supposed to capitalize it? Well it is a name so I guess I have to.) But, after the song had gotten complaints G-Dragon rewrote the song in a way, that seemed as if he was saying, 'You're kidding me right, look if it's that much of a problem then I'll just rewrite the song, geez'. Anyway, that's something I generally don't like, guest verses.

4. Annoying synch sounds.
This one is pretty self explanatory, sometimes if the actual music has gone overboard with the electronic beats it can feel like it's invading your personal space, sort of, well that's what it feels like to me. And sometimes the instrumental is way too loud and you can't even hear the singer, but I guess sometimes that's a good thing.

5. Whenever someone holds a long note and they auto tune it.
I have heard a lot of pop songs and a fair few have auto tuned some bit's that would be fine with out the auto tune! So why do it?

Marina Charalambides is currently an intern learning to write good, informative articles.

She is a keen artist and particularly enjoys writing about animé and art, or anything Japanese!

Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/6636989

No comments:

Post a Comment