Today's music - a short observation

There is a relationship to the way we listen to music & the celebrity culture we embrace whole heartedly, in that celebrities (movie stars and so-called musicians & singers, who are not really artists) who continually search for fame and attention, and the big corporations which continually push these celebrities to mainstream attention in order to increase their bottom line.

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There's even a term for this celebrity culture, the 'celebrity-industrial complex'. Only it's not a culture in the sense of it being beneficial to humanity. It's a relationship between a celebrity and big corporations, built on vanity and profit. We can hear it most clearly in the music being purveyed to, as opposed to music being appreciated by, the general public these days.

We get music that is generic and bland, with little emotion and feelings in them because those corporations don't understand them and so their 'products' don't have any of them in it either.

Manufactured music, as opposed to composed music, is being push to the general public instead of listeners being able to select the music they liked. When most new releases of popular music are of quite similar sound, the public will think this is what is called music. Unless they can discern and start to look at other alternatives or music from the past. Of course, some would but most would not take the trouble.

Listening to music has become a fashion statement to most young people who associate themselves with these fashionable artists because they look cool but which the music these crass artists 'acted in' (instead of 'played' or 'performed' plus it's bad acting too as there's no emotion in it) is anything but.

“Every music - except dance music, which is for dancing, I suppose - is for the spirit of the human being, and not for the body.” ~ Klaus Schulze

“Music is love in search of a word.” ~Sidney Lanier

“Music, the beautiful disturber of air.” ~ George Dillon

“Music is well said to be the speech of angels.” ~ Thomas Carlyle