What Happened?

***WARNING!!: THE FOLLOWING BLOG MAY BE OFFENSIVE TO PEOPLE WITH BAD TASTE***
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Once people get to know me, they realize a few things.
1) I'm ridiculously Republican,
2) I am somewhat a music snob.

Since nobody wants to hear my thoughts on the first subject for the next 4 years, i will talk about #2.

Music these days pretty much sucks.
Garage Band is one of the problems why. It seems these days all that is needed to write music is a few words that kind-of rhyme and a computer. Take Lil' Wayne's "hit" Lolipop. This song is literally 5 notes being repeated over and over again.
But I have come to the conclusion that music today isn't what it should be for one major reason:
Nobody wants to create music simply to create music. With every lyric that's written or tune thought up there seems to be the hidden agenda to achieve fame and fortune.
Way back in the day, when music was amazing, musicians weren't in it for the fame. Most musicians that are truly great wrote music because that is what they loved to do. They could care less if people liked it, they wrote music because music spoke to them.
Looking back through history, i think that it was MTV that killed music.
Today's music as well as the musicians who create it are almost completely shaped by the media. It's even now possible that through the mass presence of channels like MTV and large selling magazines that musicians could be fictional and still sell millions of album. (i.e. Hannah Montana, the Gorillaz)

But as true with most everything, there are exceptions.
In this case I'm just going to list 4 bands/artists of today that i think are worth listening to.
1. Fleet Foxes
2. Wolfmother
3. Coldplay (usually)
4. The Strokes


Well, at least that's my take.