I have a theory in my head that I'd like to share. Most [mainstream] music is beta as fuck.
I haven't listened to a modern top 40 in years, but where I used to work, we had XM radio, worked four 10-hour shifts per week, and listened to a set schedule every week:
Monday - 60's channel
Tuesday - 70's channel
Wednesday - 80's channel
Thursday - Classic Rock
Listening to 40+ years worth of popular music, I've come to the realization that damn near all mainstream music features beta, whiny, non-manly lyrics. Thursday was the only day I really liked on that listening schedule, when I could hear blues-rock like Cream. Even then there were plenty of duds. Most mainstream music is sappy, poppy bullshit, and if I listen to the lyrics, I get pissed off at the beta-tude of it.
Anybody else feel like this? I should comb a modern top 40 list, look up lyrics, and post choice pieces of beta-tude as an example.
This is just a generalized complaint, those more interested in a specific example should peep thegmanifesto's thread, Is Drake the softest rapper of all time?
Also, here's a blues tune that most players should dig:
Muddy Waters - "Hoochie Coochie Man" (January 1954)
I haven't listened to a modern top 40 in years, but where I used to work, we had XM radio, worked four 10-hour shifts per week, and listened to a set schedule every week:
Monday - 60's channel
Tuesday - 70's channel
Wednesday - 80's channel
Thursday - Classic Rock
Listening to 40+ years worth of popular music, I've come to the realization that damn near all mainstream music features beta, whiny, non-manly lyrics. Thursday was the only day I really liked on that listening schedule, when I could hear blues-rock like Cream. Even then there were plenty of duds. Most mainstream music is sappy, poppy bullshit, and if I listen to the lyrics, I get pissed off at the beta-tude of it.
Anybody else feel like this? I should comb a modern top 40 list, look up lyrics, and post choice pieces of beta-tude as an example.
This is just a generalized complaint, those more interested in a specific example should peep thegmanifesto's thread, Is Drake the softest rapper of all time?
Also, here's a blues tune that most players should dig:
Muddy Waters - "Hoochie Coochie Man" (January 1954)
Quote:Quote:
The gypsy woman told my mother before I was born
You got a boy childs comin' gonna be a son of a gun
He gonna make pretty women jump and shout
Then the world wanna know what this all about
But you know I'm him, everybody knows I'm him.
Well I'm the hoochie coochie man, everybody knows I'm him.