While doing maths, I usually have my ears plugged in with a pair of headphones, listening to the radio. Of course, the radio plays horrible music nowadays, but having your hands on the keypad, ready to switch channels if need be can give a decent listening experience.
Now, I often hear this advertisement being played on Power98, telling people not to download music, to buy original songs. The idea is that if one were to support piracy, it would kill creativity.
Woah, woah, wait a minute. Supporting piracy kills creativity? Since when? Since when did creativity mean the amount of money you earn from your songs? Has everyone become so blinded by money till they have to give ingenuity a monetary value?
Creativity does not equal money, nor does piracy kill it. In fact, if your songs are the most heavily downloaded songs on the net, you should feel great, because the essence of music is not to make money, but to entertain. Sadly, albums nowdays are being rushed out, with songs of soulless, techo-lised beats that hum in tandem with meaningless lyrics. The fact that music is an art that inspires people, an art that is to be shared within friendly company has been lost in the bloody propaganda money-mongering record labels are carrying out.
Creativity is already dying. Hip-hop? Rap? R&B? Hip-hop is a genre for shitty music and retarded beats, so that people like Missy Elliot can earn her retirement through people whom are better off deaf. R&B is overdone, with every song about love, crack, drugs, heartbreaks --- in no particular order, of course. It's also not exactly good when half of the R&B songs tend to mix with hip-hop. Rap is supposedly a way to tell a story, but is kinda hard to understand the story when you can barely hear what those mumblings of the songs mean. By the time you decipher them, the meaning is already lost.
Honestly, when you sing like crap, and your sales are declining, don't blame P2P for your problems. It doesn't help that more than half the Internet population are made up of idiots and trolls and people who download everything for fun. With these crappy songs, its no wonder creativity is dying! Its no wonder people download things off the net. Who the hell pays for crap?
Piracy is the result of the lack of creativity, nothing else. Aaand, I would just like to shout-out to everybody in Singapore who thinks Singapore Idol is a big deal. No it isn't. It meaningless, it's like crap, it doesn't mean Singapore is any more special than half the countries across the globe that also have an Idol competition. It does nothing, except show the the general populace of Singapore have an awful taste in music.
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Now listening to: "Neodammerung" Composed by Don Davies, Matrix Revolutions OST
