Soul Group

∞ Why people say they don't like mainstream music

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

From now on we're going to write posts with a bigger font to save people from squinting.

Before I begin, I'd like to point out that I, or anyone for that matter, am not purposely trying to sound "deep" and "intellectual" for the sake of impressing anyone. Maybe some people just enjoy blogging this way? Maybe some people feel like expressing what's in their mind? Sorry, but the whole blog thing is getting a bit hectic.

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You know how sometimes you love something that nobody else likes or has even heard of? You feel like it has some sentimental value, or that it's your own special thing that makes you happy, and the fact that only some like it gives it a feeling of originality.

But then that thing enters the mainstream, or suddenly a craze evolves over that thing, and then BAM.

You're put off by it. You can't ever picture yourself liking it again.

It's happening all the time, especially with music. Why do people like to continually bitch about mainstream songs, when they are supposedly "mainstream" and voted by the general public? That's the answer.

You may like the melody of a song, but then the thought that the other few million people out there are digging it off limewire somehow makes it lame. Like for instance, I used to love Second Hand Serenade and that stupid "Fall For You" song before they became mainstream, and then freaking Kyle and Jackio had to ruin it all. Everyone was obsessed with it. Like, my SISTER (EEEEWWWW) downloaded it on youtube every single freaking day and sang it 24/7. Now I don't know about anyone else, but isn't the thought of liking something your LITTLE SISTER AND ALL HER PRIMARY SCHOOL FRIENDS are crazy over kinda off-putting?

*NOTE: this doesn't apply for all mainstream music though. Taylor Swift for the win! LMAO.

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Once upon a time, blogs were special. Once upon a time, THIS BLOG was special.

Now that there are like 30 blogs floating around the place, none are special in their own ways anymore. It's probably going to end up evolving into Facebook (which ever single person in the frkn world has! Seriously- I never knew humans were so cyberly connected.) or Bebo or something lame. I can picture a million people getting home from school, then turning on their computer, then opening Internet Explorer, and then scrolling down the metre-long list of blogs they've stashed on their "favourites" menu, and then reading them one by one. I mean, COME ON, like I touched on at the beginning, people are getting fired up. That's no big deal if it happens in the real world, but over blogs?

Faahh. I quit this shit.

Just kidding.

But seriously, if people feel the urge to interact, the best way to do is person to person, face to face. That is the way to go. The whole world is falling into a hole, where the only way of doing things is over the net.

My sister FBs literally 3 hours a day. Everytime I come up to use the computer, she's there doing some quiz, or uploading some hoarish picture of herself. If she's not FBing, she's on MSN, on Hotmail, or on a gaming site. It disgusts me to think that the generation is like that.