It has been apparent that the current popular genre is that of “emo” influence. I find it hilarious how quickly styles change, from the bleached blond tips of the hair that were popular when I was in high school(class of ’03), to the now popular thing which is where everyone looks like clones of The Beatles, but with the addition of guys wearing girl pants and clothes that are 2 sizes too small for them while carrying around iPods. One of my good friends and I were driving a few weeks ago and he pointed out that every single person he saw walking on the street had an iPod in their ear. He went on to ask, “Why don’t people take the time to just walk and enjoy the world around them, instead of drowning out everything with the iPod.” My response was, “Because most people purposely want to escape from this world, because they are deep down inside wanting something more from their life. Yet they complain about everything and in the process, depress the rest of us.”
I remember watching the MTV Music Awards 4 years ago in which Chris Rock hosted it. He introduced Cold Play, and after they were done playing “The Wizard” song, he asked the audience if they were ready to slit their wrists yet and call it a day. I have never laughed so hard at a TV moment before ever.
I believe firmly that music has a profound influence on life itself. If you create music that sounds like garbage, it will have a negative influence on the physical surroundings over a given period of time. There was a great study done to show that Mozart’s symphonies helped produce growth in plant life after an experiment was done in which scientists isolated a single plant in a room with nothing else but Mozart’s works. Over a long period of time the plant started to grow with amazing proportions.
With that being said, I also believe firmly to the highest degree that if one were to put a plant, with the same rules applied where there was nothing inside the room but music itself, that if scientists played the music of Snow Patrol, ColdPlay, James Blunt, the Fray, Joe Purdy and whatever other stuff that sounds like that, that plant would not only die, but it would also eradicate and disintegrate itself in an attempt to totally escape the torment of songs such as “Guess I’m Gonna Give Up” and “Chasing Cars”. My only hope is that people will start to catch on that music like this belongs in the hands of the CIA for usage of interrogation techniques.
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“for interrogation techniques”
That’s even funnier than how you described it on the phone.
I picture a gardenia pulling up its own roots and choking itself to death. Either that or pouring some Cool Ranch dressing on itself and dancing naked at a Moby concert.
Death by vegetarian.