Tuesdays!.......wait, let me rephrase that. (cough) Tuesdays. Confused? Very simple to understand my dismay and you may agree with me on this. I remember very much my excitment in high school for Tuesday to come. Why? For me, it was my weekly feeling of Christmas. It's the day where stores everywhere recieve the newest releases for music, movies, video games, etc. As this is a "Music Blog" I'll focus on that aspect of these Tuesday holidays.
As many know, and for those who don't, I've been gone the past two years serving a 2 year mission for the LDS church. We don't listen to "worldly" music for those years so i was oblivious to alot of what was happening. Thanks to certain connections I wasn't totally lost with what was big and what flopped. So you can imagine after 2 years without the very thing I'm passionate about how excited i was to catch up and try to keep up with what would still be coming out.
To my big disappointment, i've caught up on what i've missed and there's not alot coming out. There's been a lack of talent to be present in the music industry. Music has changed from what's good to what's catchy. That's not to say it's only that, but where has the creativity gone to? Where's the intelligence? Where's the REAL talent?
"Greg, you're steering off topic." Slow your roll. I'm getting there. Just pissed me off I have to bring this up.
People want to hear upbeat, feel good music. WE'RE IN A RECESSION! EVERYONE'S MISERABLE! No more slow jams. No more mellowness. So there goes R&B unless you're Chris Brown. Is it catchy? If not, then you're kind of screwed. Throw in some Auto-tune and you're the freakin shizz.
Now, because people are catchy with one.....two....MAYBE a third song, no one wants their whole albums. People just want to download that ONE or TWO songs they like. Less sales, less production.
My friend and I walk into Best Buy now looking at the same cds that have been in stores for a while. Now, instead of being excited for the new Jay-Z album one week, then the new My Chemical Romance cd the next (so on and so on), we're glad that cd's are now on sale than what they've been pricing it. (BTW, I know T.I.'s "Paper Trail" was a huge success, but how come there's never a copy of it anywhere i go?)
Tuesdays are a pathetic waste now. No longer hold any value to me. Today, Jason DeRulo finally released his self titled album. Did anyone buy it or care? I'm guessing not. "Watcha Say" can be downloaded all day and no one wants to hear or buy his album. Why? Because it's probably NOT good, and from what I've listened to I agree. Last album, FULL album, that was good and worth buying was Jay-Z "The Blueprint III" which was released in September of 2009. 5 months ago? Depressing....
So, to sum everything up: Tuesdays no longer matter. You may happen to be walking by the cd isle and realize one of the bands you like came out with a new cd and you didn't even know. Will you buy it? Maybe. "I like that Fireflies song, but I don't know if I'll like it." Then you buy it, find out it's catchy but not good. Was it worth it? To be catchy, yes. To actually LIKE the album, probably not.
I'm calling the start of my career "The Revival". Where Tuesdays will become your favorite holiday as it used to be for me.
PS My next blog is going to be contraversial. Get excited!!!
