Last night I ended up vegging out in front of the tv for a couple hours and watching the MTV Video Music Awards. For the most part, I hate MTV and what it represents. I actually hardly ever even watch anything on MTV (besides Jackass), so it was with some trepidation that I found myself hunched over on my couch watching the show.
As I watched the awards be handed out, I started to notice a trend. America, or at least MTV, has hip hop and rap stuck up it's rear end. I didn't keep exact numbers, but by the end of the show, it seemed like about 80% of the awards had gone to rap and hip hop artists. For some reason that just bugs me. Music that sells today is compromised mainly of a drum machine and ONE person singing or rapping to it. To me, personally, that's not music, nor are the people who make those "songs" musicians.
Equally as annoying was the fact that it was practically the same five videos in every category. You would have thought that there were only about six or seven artists total on the entire music scene. Most of which were either rap or hip hop artists. How did this happen? How did America's music taste turn to crap? What is it that some people get from listening to a slutty girl or gangsta try and sing or rap to a drum machine? That's not music. It's a packaged product.
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