Macklemore is alright. Thrift Shop is extremely annoying though. I know it's meant to be tongue in cheek, but I hate that that was the song that made him big. If anything should've been Wings. That's a brilliant song, and it actually has a good message to it.Cheesepower5 said:I don't listen to Manson, so I don't follow anything he does or says. I just know a bit of his older work and couldn't think of any other extremely famous Metal artists. And again, I'm addressing the most popular people in these genres because I neither know much nor give any fucks about underground rap music. The stuff that gets noticed might as well be poison, in my eyes. The people who give rap a bad name (the wiggers) only listen to the trash of the genre anyway, and even my friend who constantly tries to get me to understand how "deep" his music is just listens to stuff about growing up in the ghetto and dealing drugs (he's a suburban white boy.)
Yeah, I haven't even been impressed by underground rap I've heard.
And I don't see why people keep lauding this Macklemore fellow. I couldn't understand a lyric of Thrift Shop, but it sounded like shitty generic party music to me. Am I wrong and the lyrics are actually really smart/well thought out? I dunno', I just know a bunch of idiots I associate with like it, along with crap like 50 Cent and Lil' Wayne.
So yeah, when the rappers on TV and on the radio are making something that has good lyrics, meaning and doesn't encourage 12 year old dipshits to act "hard as fuck", I'll give ya'll an apology, but I'm not digging around in a genre that just sounds unpleasant to me so that I can tell you your music isn't crap. Not like anybody needs me to validate them, anyway. I'm only 19, I'm from a generation that obsesses over rap, and by all rights I should like it. But I can't. It's terrible, it makes decent people turn into terrible people, and I can't even respect my own age group because of it (and Jersey Shore.) This is probably the only generation where a large group of people are defaulting to their parents' music. Why? Because our music sucks!
As far as modern day music goes, I hate when people just dismiss it, and that all the good music was released in the past. There's plenty of brilliant music being released all the time these days, and the internet has created a golden generation of sorts as it's allowed an immense variety of genres and creativity to get a platform and reach fans, unlike before when bands would have to satisfy the conditions of record labels and TV Music channels to then gain exposure. It's put the control of music right back into the hands of the artists. Of course, that means you have to look harder to find the stuff you enjoy, but that's another thing that irks me and that you've just exemplified - you judge the genre based on what you've been exposed to and you commit yourself to judging it but you then refuse to look deeper into it to actually validate your opinion. You can't have it both ways. It isn't my fault you haven't heard the good stuff.
Also, hip hop's been around for decades. If anything it was bigger in the 90s/early 00s than it is now. And I don't even know what a wigger is. Never heard of them.