Friday 28 October 2011

Try to catch up Motherfucker!!

Hey,
Sorry for the swearing in the title. Well not really sorry for putting it there, more sorry if it offends you, you uptight crap.
But anyways, I was just listening to some music this morning, when it came to me, that musicians, some of them, are geniuses. I mean that they have a gift. A gift in being able to craft beautiful music that poses questions and makes you think. But every once in a while, you come across an album that actually blows your mind.
It makes you forget about the outside world and moves you. And its a commercial and critical bomb. And none of your friends can see the opinion that you hold so dear. No one else seems to appreciate that song or album for all the beauty that you can see in it.

I went to a concert last November for a very big band, who had just released their fourth album. Due to going with uptight bastards, I was seated and not moshing. Now this bands fourth album had been hated by fans stating that they had "forgotten", what they were about. Now that is utter pishtosh. If a band does exacxtly what said fans request, makes alubms identical in form, they get called stagnant and boring, lacking inspiration. The band cannot win. Needless to say, I was devastated when the song I had decided in my head that would be amazing when sung in a massive concert, was underwhelming due to only 20% of the crowd singing along.

Now the point I'm trying to make here is, that bands can't win if they always listen to the fans. Take a look at Papa Roach. They've made like 40 albums of generic crap metal. Their first album is still amazing. Yet they have a core fanbase that insists they are still awesome. Well, whilst most educated people can recite half of Last Resort, I can't even remember the guitar riff from Scars.
In the same sense look at Linkin Park. They did something completely different with A Thousand Suns. It's a concept album, an enigma. It doesn't seem to fit. And it's alienated a huge part of their fanbase. But it's a far better album than Minutes to Midnight. The new direction is something different enough to show that as a band they still have an amzing creativity within them. They still want to make music that questions you. And to every fan who doesn't like the new direction:

Y'all need to stop talking, start trying to catch up Motherfucker!!!!!!

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