music pirates

ok... I remembered the online journal Salleha and I shared... this is one of my posts... shall not put up any of her's... I picked this post cos it's the most recent... here it goes:

"music pirates

ok... been quite a while since i ever got soo passionate abt something...

recently, there's a new craze on the dancefloor...

reggae....

gone are the days of hip hop....

yay!

so i was thinking to myself... wad made these mats and minahs change... i mean last time, it was hip hop at cream and now, all of a sudden, rastafari at hardrock...

the clubbing culture... i just dun get it...

and i'm a big fan of bob marley... so yeah.... coolness...

and i cant sleep over this issue... i dunno why...

i realised that any form of music that falls into the trap of dancehalls loose its authencity...

so my theory:

dancehalls sells music and keep musicians alive...but ironically, it destroys the music itself, distorting and manipulating it...to some other form that does not aprreciate the true meaning of that genre, but just the culture of clubbing...

so yeah... all i'm saying is that the culture of clubbing kills novelty but it fuels its growth... to market and sell music...

i mean... look at reggae...when bob marley introduced rastafari to the world, reggae meant peace... freedom for the blacks... end to the cruelty of racism and the struggle against discrimination... with the dreadlocks and all...

but then... more and more blacks jump into the same bandwagon... people gather... they all wanted to share the music... so reggae got to dancehalls...

the rhymin of peaceful jamaican rhythms got distorted to uncensored, cynical rapping... rappers and DJs pop up like daisies... they dun talk abt real issues like racism, but issues like how much money or sex they need... evolved: ppl like Shaggy... then the final product: hiphop.... which basically lost all essense of reggae and only supplied to the demands of the dancefloor...

same goes for disco by the BEEGEES which then evolved to techno (Aqua)...

and rock to pop...

i mean.. just look at green day.. they dun sound like punk anymore...

neither is bon jovi and aerosmith categorised rock... anymore....

the raw and hardcore form of music no longer exist...only the beats that makes us dance...

the only genres that stayed true to its form are probably classical and jazz...cos ppl dun club to them...

maybe jazz... but still... distortion... how can u compare diana krall and norah jones to the legendary nat king cole or louis armstrong?

damn it... and i'm still stucked to maroon 5..."