The Menu May Stop With Adele, But The Buck Doesn't

The music industry today is decline. Or is it? Really? Let’s consider:

A few weeks ago, the Grammy and Brit awards were held. Now, the Brits (as in the ceremony) especially are known for being a little bit tacky and when you have acts like Adele and One Direction winning awards for their music you start to understand why. When you learn that the painfully unfunny James Corden is presenting, you suddenly understand totally why. What some people fail to understand is that the Brit awards fundamentally award pop artists; people who are played on the radio, on music channels or in shopping centres. It may not especially be right, but it’s the way it is. I myself do not like this style of music and outwardly voice my opinion on it; again, people may not agree, but an opinion is an opinion and everybody else has the right to voice theirs just as much as I do. They are not however, and will never be, representative of the music industry as a whole.

One thing I refuse to complain about is the state of music today. The reason being is that music today, as an entity, is not – and cannot – be condensed into a few radio-fodding, pop musicians. That is not the state of music in the time we live in; music is whatever you make of it. All over the world people are creating music; funk, country and western, heavy metal, thrash metal, punk, electronic, ska, reggae, jazz, blues: you name it, people are creating it. The key is to find what you like, rather than complaining about what you’ve been given. Don’t like dubstep? That’s fine, go and find something you do like rather than complaining about it.

If you suspect there is a void in the middle of anything: music, art, photography, whatever – create something. One of the most brilliant things about life is that everybody has the ability to create things. Create the thing you wish somebody else had created. In short, don’t complain about problems you do nothing to solve.

Nowadays, hearing twelve year old kids saying “music isn’t what was in the sixties.” No it’s not. But neither were you, your parents, or anything else for that matter. Music is everybody’s possession, and it is an ever-growing and evolving thing. Everybody has the power to change it, to mould and to enhance it. You don’t have to be famous to do that. If you like funk music, seek out funk bands that play local to you. Nothing local? Trawl the internet, or travel. With the internet so readily available, there is essentially no excuse.

Without an attempt to mould music to you or without an attempt to solve the problems you encounter, your opinion becomes void.