Popular music is mostly a joke...

So anyway here I was listening to the radio online and what do you know, I hear a song which actually catches my interest. This is a pretty rare thing to happen, so I went to youtube and looked up the song. I listened to it a few more times on youtube and thought "wow, what a wicked tune!" Just in case you're interested, the song is called Happiness by Alexis Jordan. Just for a bit more information I looked her up on wikipedia, and here I discovered that the whole hook of this song is taken from another song by Deadmau5, a popular Canadian DJ/Electronic musician. This to me just proves how much of a joke the music industry is. It's like people hate originality in music and want the same things over and over, because if you turn on the radio and listen to popular music there is no originality to any of it. It's the same things over and over! Half the time it is exactly the same thing, because everything is sampled nowadays.

Another good example of this is the new song by industry creation Nicki Minaj. Her latest "song" is called Right Through Me, or some crap, but the whole melody and hook is stolen from the song Always With You, Always With Me, by Joe Satriani. Then you have the latest song by Wil I Am (what a stupid name) which steals the whole melody line from Video Killed the Radio Star. Ironically, Nicki Minaj is featured in this song, so it seems she has no originality at all. Oh, and since I'm talking about Nicki Minaj I might as well mention her first song Your Love, which steals the hook from the Annie Lennox song No More I Love Yous. I guess the whole point of this strategy is that you sample songs that are old enough and market them to a generation young enough to not know said songs. But for people like me who know music, it just proves that the music industry today is a joke.

That is my overall opinion on music today. My question is, why is the original song by Deadmau5 never on the radio, yet this new version of it by Alexis Jordan is? Obviously the song is catchy, so my only conclusion can be that Alexis Jordan is a hot young female and for some reason that makes people want to buy music.

I'm not even against sampling, but what is the point in sampling a whole song and just putting lyrics over it? How can you call that a new song? A remix maybe, but not a new song. Sampling can be creative when you consider people like DJ Shadow, who compose new songs by using thousands of tiny samples. He doesn't just steal the hook from another song just to make a hit, he combines many different samples to make a new hook, and to make something original. This is a good use of samples. This is using new technology to make something creative and original out of something old. Like original hip-hop, but now hip-hop has degraded into a rehashing of the same things over and over. For some reason the buying public always gravitates to this generic, unimaginative, stomach bile called popular music, while the real gems lie hidden often never getting the credit they deserve.

Haikus are dumb!

What is the point of
the Haiku? Seventeen syllables
of stupid!