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Posted on November 9, 2015 in Entertainment

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Call me old school, but I remember music when the lyrics actually meant something. Not just the same threewords repeated a bunch of times. Even rap had meaning back in the 80’s and the 90’s. Here are 10 reasonswhy music just sucks these days.

1. Music is all about making money.

It’s been scientifically proven that repeated exposure to a song makes you like it more. Recordcompanies literally pummel it into your brain until you’re OK with it. Radio stations are playingfewer songs than ever because once corporations invest in an artist’s song, they peddle the shit outof it until it’s playing on repeat in your tortured noggin.

2. The most popular song in music history is “Gangnam Style.”

It has more than 2.4 billion views on YouTube. Quality has become irrelevant. Only an artist’s image orsociopolitical persuasion holds water. For example, Rihanna has had 13 No. 1 hit singles on the Billboard Top

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100 and Led Zeppelin never had one; the cast of “Glee” has had more chart-toppers than the Beatles. (This mayor may not be due to declining IQ over the past century.)

3. Yesterday’s artists used to ‘rage against the machine’; now, they ARE the machine.

Pink Floyd told the Man to “leave those kids alone.” Twisted Sister said “We’re not going to take it” and Gun’s‘N’ Roses pretty much told everyone to go F*ck themselves. Everything is safe and easily digestible — likebaby food. No one expresses what’s in their heart anymore; they only want to make it to the charts, whichinevitably leads to stale, superficial tracks that are “in” one week and “out” the next.

4. Music corporations literally hate you.Tony Bennett said in 2014, “The corporations took it over and they want to make so much money that theydon’t care whether the public likes it or not…they think the public is ignorant, so their attitude is, ‘Don’t givethem anything intelligent, because it won’t sell.'”

5. Truffle butter sells.

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WTF is a truffle butter?

6. Focus groups rule the artist.

The industry is infested with non creative types making creative decisions on behalf of the artist.Beyonce’s “Run the World (Girls)” took six writers and four producers; “Bohemian Rhapsody”took one man. A team of nobodies wrote Britney Spears’ “Toxic.” One man, Rivers Cuomo,composed Weezer’s music for 20 years and maintained the band’s integrity. Look at TV and film ifyou want another reason to hate focus groups.

7. The Billboard 100 is full of idiots, morons and losers.

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Justin Bieber, Selena Gomez, Macklemore, One Direction, Skrillex, Nick Jonas, Chris Brown,Meghan Trainor. All of them are on the list. Maybe I’m going through a bad phase of GrampaSimpson, but I see a problem of apocalyptic proportions with this.

8. Sampling.

Why not call it what it is? Stealing. Jay Z just settled in court after getting caught ripping off some Egyptiancrooner to make 1999’s “Big Pimpin.” He threw money at the problem (money he made after “Big Pimpin”catapulted him to superstardom) and won. This is just one example in a literal New Wave of preferring lazinessand theft to actually giving a shit.

9. Rock has been castrated.

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In 2015, such softies as Fun., Ed Sheeran, Coldplay and Maroon 5 topped the charts. In 1997, we had TheMighty Mighty Bosstones, Sugar Ray, Everclear, Third Eye Blind and The Wallflowers. Something changed(though one can argue rock in general has been progressively neutered since the 1960s).

On a side note, could you imagine Pamela Anderson and Fun’s Nate Ruess banging on a yacht? Me neither.

10. Critics are vilified as “haters.”

As we all know, being a “hater” in today’s society is the gravest sin. I’m sorry, but when did it become trendy