Music Industries

I really just notice that, the music industry in western countries seriously differs from the music in eastern countries.
In the western music industry, it's mostly sex that sells. Well used to...

Example: Britney now... no one wants her.

I'm not sure what British music sells really... Weirdness?

Example: Mika and Lily Allen.

Chinese music, doesn't really contain much sexual stuff... Unless you count Jolin Tsai. But not as much. It contains mostly...cheesy cute pop. The songs are quite good, but their musical talent is well... not too great. there are some good rock bands, but it seems that pop is over powering them in the industry.

Example: 7 Flowers, ING, SHE.

Japanese music, the 2 most famous are Ayumi Hamasaki and Utada Hikaru I guess.
But bands that focus on their fashion a little more than their sounds are also getting really famous now. I don't really like their ways of concentrating on their looks instead of music.

Example: Utada Hikaru, Ayumi Hamasaki, Dir En Gray.

But it all sums up to one thing in the end. Music.

After everything, no one really cares much except for how they sound.

Some types of songs that really get to my head though are:

1.Song that have THE worst lyrics ever.
Example: Girlfriend by Avril Lavigne.

"hey hey you you
I don't like you girlfriend
no way no way
I think you need a new one"

(Oh yea, no one will really hate Avril for writing this song about some poor girl, cause that poor girl is... Paris Hilton. Yes, the Paris who got jailed last Sunday. It seems Avril wrote it because she was pissed Paris was getting close to her husband Deryck.)

WTF?! They don't even rhyme... But what makes this song famous is...

The people that work behind her, yes, the producers!!!

As you know (or maybe not), she recorded this whole song drunk, that's why you can hear a girlish laughter (that's the producer's laugh, and it's actually a he...), and some sounds from blowing on the top of a bottle.
How the hell can you make a nice song in this kinda situation anyways?!
Well, thanks to the amazing producer, drummer, guitarist, bassist and keyboardist, she managed to scrap up a good song. Poor drummer, the drum beats change after every verse... He must be working his arse off.

2.Anyways, some songs are created by pure lyrical geniuses.
Example: Jamison Parker.

"It's a night life that gets them off
So desperately they wait for the excuse of love
We live like vampires
And we, we, we love like killers
We all die like infants
and we trust like mirrors
Slow suicide...like it or not, it's what we do"

Meaning:(for those who think it's something for some science fiction book)

Live like Vampires - Hiding from things we think will destroy us/Lives in the hiding

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Love Like Killers - We love without thinking of consequnces, without bondaries and will do anything/Love only thinking of ourselves, and will harm others to keep ourselves from being harmed

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Die Like Infants - We all die, innocently, helpless and vulnerable

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Trust Like Mirrors - We only have as much faith or trust in others as we do in ourselves/We only believe as much as we want to see

Sadly, every single moment we live, we're killing ourselves without knowing it. Everytime you lie, drink alchohol, lack of sleep, drugs, smokes... Everything's bad.
These kind of songs are really nice actually. Great beat, great lyrics, great vocals, great everything.
Just one flaw: Almost every song in the album seems almost the same. The way they sing, the genre, everything. And it bores you terribly. It seems that good music exists in very limited sounds.

3.Songs that are weird and blur, you can't understand whatever they are singing.
Example: Feel Good Inc. by Gorillaz

"[HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA.. ]
City's breaking down on a camel's back
They just have to go 'cause they don't hold back
So all you fill the streets, it's appealing to see
You won't get out the county, 'cause you're bad and free
You've got a new horizon, it's ephermal style
A melancholy town where we never smile
And all I wanna hear is the message beep
My dreams, they've got to kiss, because I don't get sleep, no "

WTF?! I couldn't hear nor understand a single word in the first paragraph at all when I first heard the song.
I searched the meaning of this song and guess what? They put everything that people want into the song. Fresh air, nice neighbours, work.. Stuff that people want mostly... Maybe you don't get it... Search the song meanings then.

Nice beat and all... again... the lyrics have goodness and flaws in them.

Interesting eh?
Everything seems to have imperfections. And that's what makes them beautiful.
Well... Everyone has their own opinions, but that's what I think...

I'm just gonna add a rant here cause I just can't resist one.
I hate the fact that when you see some rock band on youtube, they all go labelling them emo or goth or whatever. Western music has tons of flamers. What I really like about Eastern music is, no one really flames them for the specific genre they are, and that really is good. People are entitled to opinions I know, but it is kinda annoying seeing them on the youtube video page. Especially when they come in by the TONNES. It's like they live to flame and everything...

I'm trying to stay awake until dawn so I can see the stars and the sunset from my balconey. Yea, I know I'm a weird soul. A weird soul that'll see some things you'll never see.

Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.

I've always hated this line. Maybe cause they shouldn't put chocolates and life in the same level. I've always eaten chocolates that were labelled. Whenever I eat my chocolates, I've always read the names and labels and see carefully what flavour they are before popping one into my mouth. So this sentence never seemed to appeal to me.

5:40 AM already and I'm still on my computer wasting my life away. but there's too much of it anyways.

Goodnight now. Opps, correction. Good Morning?