A couple years ago when I was working at the steel shop. I had one of my friends from work come up to me and say "you need to check out this band called Hurt." I knew he and myself had a similar taste in music so I checked it out and was hooked instantly. In a day and age when music is judged by how good your music video is or how often the dj's play it or how many commercials you have for it on tv. Hurt just plays music to play music. They sing and write songs about things that most people don't want to talk about. Just because something bad happens in life people think you should just ignore it and not talk about it.
For instance the song "Rapture" talks about this woman who kills her child and "swears she heard the voice of jesus telling her it was wrong to keep it" because she obviously had some mental issues. Then at the end of the song he reveals that the child was his and he couldn't do anything to stop her. I like that song because it's about a trajic incident that happens all the time in this world, but nobody wants to talk about it.
So thats my point of view on music. I just get tired of these pop singers singing, for the most part, the same songs over and over again. I think they just have a lack of originality.
2 comments:
I too agree on your opinion of pop music. The music seems to be played for reasons other than the love for music as an expression of self. What are you expressing when the same cookie cutters are being reused song after song? Talk about something real, with real, original ways of saying it. Not new, not cutting edge, not extraordinary, just unique. Express something that is emotional. Emotion is something can cannont be fully tapped. Pop music packages this in McDonalds happy meal bags and never changes its menu. Hurt grabs a plastic bag from under the sink and forces you to look inside and find for yourself what makes it worth buying.
Hey, so I'm guess you don't want my opinion on this one ;o).
Love ya!
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