Musical rant
Sep. 22nd, 2006 02:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
captain_slinkyI'm really tired of the music kids listen to these days. Everything is either a big political rant or a whiney tirade about how emo the kid is.
Where are the simpler songs of my childhood? The songs where they picked one message and then spent 4-to-6 minutes hammering that message in to your head? And there were only the three topics for songs; how hot a chick was, how we're gonna party/break the rules/be bad, and the "How Much I Miss You" ballads.
We need more songs about how wide of a smile your Sweet Cherry pie gives you! Are you smoking in the boys room? Is that type of behaviour allowed in school? If we rock-n-roll ALL night, what are we gona do ev-er-ree day? If you DO go again on your own, will it be down the only road you've ever known? Should I rock you as if you were some sort of tropical storm? If you get shot through the heart how am I gonna know who's to blame?
Without the simplistic songs of yesteryear, how will the youth of today know the efects of pouring sugar on someone???
In the past I took all these songs and the lessons I learned from them for granted. And now as I look back I'm reminded of those immortal words of the super-metal group "Cinderella" who crooned "Don't know what you've got till it's gone".
Where are the simpler songs of my childhood? The songs where they picked one message and then spent 4-to-6 minutes hammering that message in to your head? And there were only the three topics for songs; how hot a chick was, how we're gonna party/break the rules/be bad, and the "How Much I Miss You" ballads.
We need more songs about how wide of a smile your Sweet Cherry pie gives you! Are you smoking in the boys room? Is that type of behaviour allowed in school? If we rock-n-roll ALL night, what are we gona do ev-er-ree day? If you DO go again on your own, will it be down the only road you've ever known? Should I rock you as if you were some sort of tropical storm? If you get shot through the heart how am I gonna know who's to blame?
Without the simplistic songs of yesteryear, how will the youth of today know the efects of pouring sugar on someone???
In the past I took all these songs and the lessons I learned from them for granted. And now as I look back I'm reminded of those immortal words of the super-metal group "Cinderella" who crooned "Don't know what you've got till it's gone".
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