The music industry today is said to be corrupt and all about the amount of swearing in records with eminem being a prime example. It is also meant to be corrupt with drugs. The youth of today think this is the right thing to do and is cool, but it’s nothing new. The sex pistols lead guitarist Sid vicious died of a drug overdose and bob marley, and Elvis had also used drugs at some point during their career. Swearing in songs isn’t new either, in fact it was more controversial when the sex pistols were swearing in the 70’s than in eminem and other artists songs at the moment. Now eminem is rapping about smoking cannabis but even in the 60’s and 70’s Pink Floyd were singing about heroin and other drugs. Some groups now spit and urinate on the audience but even this isn’t new, the punk bands of the 70’s were spitting on audiences so what has today’s youth got that the older bands didn’t have.
And take into account of the prices of today’s music industry. Bands are charging around £15 an album, and most of the songs on these albums are old songs but covered.
And what about the bands in the middle still going, iron maiden, metallica, guns and roses? They have evolved, and are still as popular as ever retaining old fans and gaining younger fans, perhaps these bands truly are great?
About the only thing that today’s generation of musicians are doing that hasn’t already been done, is using synthesizers, and that’s only because past generations didn’t have that technology.
So in conclusion, the music industry is just repeating the antics of the older generation of music with synthesizers, so is my generation of music really my generation, or is it the revival of my parents generation of music.
