Music: Literature for the Poor.

The French philosopher, playwright and writer, Voltaire (who you can learn about here) once said: "Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung". Which, if you look at current trends in popular music, seems to be a pretty accurate statement.


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Don't believe me? Don't be so quick to defend the Pop-Machine. The current song sitting at Number #1 on the Australian music charts is the grammatically insensitive 'We R Who We R' the "artist" Ke$ha, note the misplaced a crucial consonant that has been replaced with a '$' sign.

More proof? Here's the chorus of the above-mentioned tune:
"Tonight we’re going hard

Just like the world is ours

We’re tearin’ it apart
You know we’re superstars

We R who we R!"

Abysmal. However, the point here is not that the music is overproduced and the lyrics the literary equivalent to vomit, and though it may not seem like it, this is not a blost that aims to rage on and on about the downward spiral of musical creativity in the past fifty (or five hundred) years. It is simply an observation that I think we can all agree on, and that is that our choice in music has taken a step or two back from what it once was.

That's not to say that there isn't good music out there, because there certainly is. It's also not to say that the current music is pointless and good for nothing. Mindless, bass pumping music has its place on the dance floor, and I will testify that with my own personally sweet D-Moooves.

However, I am convinced that the messages contained within todays radio fodder is, as Volotaire so wisely stated, too stupid to be spoken.