What I Hate About Modern Music

"Damn, this bitch is terrible.  Good thing I got all these electronics..." 

It's bad enough already with computers churning out beats, auto-tuners correcting awful singers, and musicians not even knowing how to play an instrument...now we get this.  Lupe Fiasco, a very intelligent artist/musician, was recently interviewed about his feud with Atlantic Records regarding his career and the delay of his latest album [Lasers, due out 3/8/11]:

"There’s nothing really to tell about that record, to be honest. I didn’t have nothing to do with that record. That was the label’s record. That wasn’t like I knew the producer or knew the writer or anything like that. That was one of those records the record company gave me, [they even gave me] stuff they wanted me to rap about. It wasn’t like, ‘Hey I did this and I went to a mountain and found inspiration and it was this.’ [Last April] I was backstage at a show at the House of Blues in L.A. and the president of [Atlantic Records] came to me and said, ‘Hey check this out, I got this song.’ He played ‘Show Goes On’ for me on the iPod. I was used to it because they presented me like ten other songs in the same fashion or via email. So for me, at that point, it was just another record like, ‘Is this a song you want me to do?’ There was nothing special about it for me at that point. A lot of the songs that are on the album, I’m kinda neutral to. Not that I don’t like them, or that I hate them, it’s just I know the process that went behind it. I know the sneaky business deal that went down behind this song, or the artist or singer or songwriter who wrote this hook and didn’t want to give me this song in the first place. So when I have that kind of knowledge behind it, I’m just kind of neutral to it like, ‘Another day, another dollar.’ As opposed something like 'The Cool', which is more of my own blood, sweat, and tears, and my own control."

It's almost as scary as Hollywood's executive tyranny ruining the movie business.  Let talented people show off their talent and have the executives "manage" the money-related issues.  Instead, executives don't care how much crap is out there, as long as it's out there for a price.  Unfortunately, for music and movie fans, we get shit thrown on us like "American Idol" and "The Last Airbender".   It's like a politician winning because he had the most financial backing.  Absolutely sickening.