Music's Next Revolution

A commercial for The Game’s latest album just floated onto my TV screen. The album cover features The Game sitting on a bunch of rimmed out tires (possibly of the spinning variety). I’ve had this burning resentment festering in me since being introduced to the Ying Yang Twins some time ago on MTV’s Cribs -- two more idiotic and fundamentally embarrassing punks you could not find.

I look back on the beginnings of Rap and there was such freshness to it all. It was exciting: there was creativity; there was spontaneity; and there was purpose. Where has it all gone? Rap and Hip Hop, with some notable exceptions, have become the new Disco. It’s formulaic, garbage Pop. A Pop so weak, mind you, we should probably be calling it the New Coke.

Here is my official prediction. Soon the musical pendulum will swing back -- far from uncreative drivel we have become accustomed to, and back to profound, socially changing ideas expressed through music.

It will be a new movement in music. It will take one larger than life band to spark this new movement, and otherwise will follow. They will fight back against the status quo and Pop, as we know it, will die -- much like how Disco died.

This is on the cusp of becoming reality... can’t you feel it?

Soon enough all of the Hiltons, Lohans, Fergies, and Federlines will be but a distant, uncomfortable memory.