grinding my teeth {over the radio}
i hate the radio
i hate the 'personalities' that think they own the world
i hate the same twenty songs they play four hundred times a day
i hate the neverending commercials
i hate kids like my sister who define themselves by saying "i am rock," who know every word to those forty songs and sing them in a flimsy, flat, limp, dead falsetto voice conspicuously devoid of any life or emotion, and yet don't know the band, the album, or anything about what makes that the same song as another
i hate it that they, every now and then, play good music, music that invariably gets picked up by the populus, whose lyrics get learned by people that haven't a clue why it is worth it anyway
hate
hate
do you ever want to escape from your head? blow out of your skull...?
i can feel my brain behind my eyes, feel it
there is NOT ENOUGH FUCKING ROOM
i hate the 'personalities' that think they own the world
i hate the same twenty songs they play four hundred times a day
i hate the neverending commercials
i hate kids like my sister who define themselves by saying "i am rock," who know every word to those forty songs and sing them in a flimsy, flat, limp, dead falsetto voice conspicuously devoid of any life or emotion, and yet don't know the band, the album, or anything about what makes that the same song as another
i hate it that they, every now and then, play good music, music that invariably gets picked up by the populus, whose lyrics get learned by people that haven't a clue why it is worth it anyway
hate
hate
do you ever want to escape from your head? blow out of your skull...?
i can feel my brain behind my eyes, feel it
there is NOT ENOUGH FUCKING ROOM
posted by sunshine at 11:14 PM
8 Comments:
I pride myself in singing along with the emotion of a giddy 13 year old Japanese schoolgirl.
The only way around shitty radio is a good, homemade CD. Even 100.7, the station that was doing so good not playing those 40 songs, has started playing Rob Thomas and Avril Lavigne. Thanks, ClearChannel.
ok, maybe singing is not the crime. i, myself, sing all the time in the car. but, its when im alone and have a cd in.
at least "the emotion of a giddy 13 year old Japanese schoolgirl" qualifies as some kind of energy. and yeah, thats like me too.
what bothers me is the difference between performing a moving piece on stage and reading the sheet music for the first time...
Yeah that makes alot of sense. Music is to me all about emotion...without that, it's worthless. It's just random words or notes if there is no feeling implied. When I sing along it's like a connection with the writer and it seems like any constrained emotion or anxiety can be released if I can just belt it out. If I can't sing with it, it isn't worth listening to.
That said, why is it that I only sing when I'm alone in the car? I guess because that's the only place I can let loose and not be the person people usually see me as.
im curious, are you selfish with music? do you feel that only certain people should be allowed to listen to the good stuff because they would appreciate it? if you are the only one you know that has a certain beautiful unknown album with a certain beautiful unknown song and happened to hear it on the radio, would you stop listening to it?
well, you get what i mean by all that...
Yeah I think I get it.
Music is cheapened when the masses of people (people like you sister...) don't appreciate it for what it's worth. And when I see people listening to a great song and not appreciating it for what it's really worth, taking it as just another one of those 40 songs, it makes me cringe because there's something special there that has been lost.
That said, it's their loss and it doesn't mean I can't still appreciate it. It isn't so much as an insult to me as a dissapointment that something special is deemed regular and boring like the other 39 songs G105 plays.
But I don't stop listening because part of the beauty and part of the meaning comes from within. And that isn't lost when it gets played on the radio for everybody else.
yeah, not stop listening to a song but cringing is accurate. i usually take a more "ignorance is bliss" approach. whenever we are in the car and the radio comes on, i usually have my mp3 with me and a good book or magazine. try not to check the playlists for 96 Rock on the internet. i managed to do that a couple weeks ago and found that ben folds' "landed" was on it. ugh. i mean its impossible to expect that to be unknown at all, the new single from a local artist and all. but still... ugh.
if people wanted to hear a song that good they should have pre-ordered the album like me :)
Gee, you aren't a Ben Folds fan, are you? :p
I haven't heard that song. I'll have to check it out.
I'm a Rockin' the Suburbs fan, myself.
even though i just download most albums these days, i figure some of the better artists deserve a good pre-ordering. though, come to think of it, they would probably get more of the money if i just downloaded the album and sent them $10 in the mail...
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