This week and next week I'm going to introduce you to two bands I'm falling in love with. To begin, have you ever heard of Wild Nothing? Me neither - until recently.
Here's a feel for their stuff....
Chinatown
Confirmation
Live in Dreams
Here's their Myspace page.
As you all know, I love pop music (Katy Perry, Ke$sha, Lil' Wayne, Chris Brown), but lately
I'm starting to become genuinely concerned for the future of the music industry! I think I am ready for a "Music Style" Brand New Life.
The lyrics of pop music are REALLY bad (inapporpriate, extremely sexual, and all about drinking)! Rhianna's newest song is just plain terrible. So, I am going to make a true effort to keep broadening my love of other genres. I do love indie music - and I love acoustic folk.
I am not interested in banning music - anymore than I'm interested in banning books (it never works anyway). But really, music industry, we could hold ourselves to a slightly higher standard! Anyway, I am obviously not going to TOTALLY give up my love of pop music,
but I do feel concerned about how well kids are able to repeat back a lot of terrible words and themes! So, I'll push myself to keep branching out. And now and then, I will definitely jam out to T-Pain and Nelly. No doubt about that.
Here's a good wake-up song without words by Civil Civic: Airspray.
Boy, you are not kidding about lyrics these days. I almost never listen to the radio because I just can never be sure. One afternoon, however, Michael Jackson happened to be on a station I jumped to, so we had fun listening to that. Then the next song (Usher??) was all about bootys and sex! Off went the radio... Forever!
ReplyDeleteI love music, but I pretty much only listen to "oldies;" bands from high school! But, you know what, I can be sure of them! And whether it's me or my babies, we don't need any more junk coming into our brains.