Take your bow, and get off the stage!
Why current pop culture music is nothing but recycled garbage

By Jay Schreiber

Di you get the new Metallica album?
Have you heard the new single from AC/
DC? Are you going to the Backstreet
Boys concert? In all these cases, my
answer is precisely this: “NO!”

Popular Music nowadays is, in
one phrase, simply pathetic, recycled,
money-grabbing garbage from over-the-
hill musical acts. The trends seem to be
similar all across the board in the sense
that some performing acts just don’t want
to die or accept that they’re obsolete. But
let me back up and explain a little more
about where I’m coming from.

Every music era has its shining
stars, like the ‘60s and the Beatles, or the
“70s with Zeppelin. Metal and Grunge
took off in the late “80s and disco fell
somewhere in between. But unlike some
good musical acts that stop performing all
together and understand that they’ve hit
their mark, a handful of bands continue to
soldier on for the sake of money, and that
egotistical feeling of being convinced that
they’ve “still got it.”

I’m talking about the Boy bands
from yesteryear, the groups that your
dad used to see back in the day, and the
grunge superstars that still think they’re
cool even though they stopped chasing
the dragon years ago. These performers
are expired for the most part, and after
several lineup changes and world tours,
there’s really nothing new coming out of
the workshop.

Don’t get me wrong. Lots of groups
can still remain fresh and put in the
necessary work needed to earn their

paycheque at the end of the day, but
sometimes a band just doesn’t know
when their final encore has ended and it’s
time to get off the bloody stage.

Hate me if you will, but for love
of god, would someone tell the Rolling
Stones to just retire already? A band that
has been active for over 46 years is both
impressive and gimmicky in my opinion.
It seems sadly pathetic to be playing in a
group that has a combined age of 257 and
only four members. It’s more likely to see
them playing at the legion hall rather than
BC Place Stadium.

That being said, the Rolling
Stones made some of the best music
of their era (the key being their era)
and deserve a lot of respect. Honestly,
boys, just go peacefully into the night;
everyone’s already wearing your freaking
merchandise.

The most recent example from this
brand of lame sales-rock is this: Guns
N’ Roses’ Chinese Democracy, the most
disgusting show of an over-hyped band
gone foul. But first, let’s recap the history
of this band.

Guns N’ Roses were huge in the
late 1980s and early ‘90s starting with
the release of their 1987 debut Appetite
for Destruction. Appetite is still, to this

 

 

  
  
     

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