WHEN I look at the music in the Top 40 charts I am always met with the same artists singing the same songs.
Flo Rida, Chris Brown or Nicki Minaj singing about alcohol, partying or the high life; it's boring and repetitive.
They sound the same as well, many using "auto tune" and sung with a computer not a guitar and, with lyrics such as "If you a G, you a G,G,G' ()" chart music doesn't even make much sense.
Obviously I am in the minority as these songs are successful through the masses buying them and this scares me; are the charts going to change any time soon?
I know a lot of people that share my views, yet on a more extreme scale.
It is seen as "indie" to hate all "mainstream" music and every song in the charts.
I think that this is ridiculous. If a good song enters the charts it may be a rarity, but it doesn't make it worse.
The sad truth is that 20 years ago "Rhythm is a Dancer" was number one, while ten years ago it was the infamous "Ketchup Song". These are songs many grew up with and I fear that the next few years will not produce much memorable music. Of course, not all music is in the top 40 and there are some good songs out there; I have just had to look around much more than I used to.
The music industry seems a lot more about bragging, fashion and status than it was when I was younger. Artists like Lady Gaga seem more interested about what they are wearing than the music they are producing. Modern music has adapted to the modern world with singers and groups having Twitter pages and the iTunes chart possessing more power than music stores.
I feel that popular music nowadays is not necessarily about the song but who is singing it, not about giving a message but showing off and, in my opinion, the sooner this changes the better the charts, and music in general, will become.