Finally, another long-awaited diatribe launched in all its rotten-garbage splendour at the trash heap labeled 'Modern Music'.

I've been 'advised' recently, by a person no less magnaminous than my own Mom, to not refer to mainstream music with words like 'crap'. Apparently it's a facet of people's lives that I have to respect, a choice which they make of their own accord and I have to uphold a positively tolerant demeanour with regards to their discretion. OK, I'll admit I'm a direct, opiniated person who in various moments tends to spill too much milk from the glass. However, I know I'm not overstepping any lines when I refer to most of the modern music as idioyncratic pointless bullshit. My opinion, my right to express it, and seriously, sod all the people who feel their choice has been duly undermined. These are the kinds of people who really don't give a hoot to what they're actually listening to, and will never understand what it means to be brainwashed by an industry into worshipping perverse self-deprecating negativity.

For that is exactly what most mainstream excuses are, totally lifeless, pointless bullcrap that can actually turn a previously happy person into a negative lump of pessimism. Gone are the days of innocent 'I-love-you-you-love-me' teeny-boppism, which really already held less logic than a broken Rubik cube. These days if it's not selling your body for sex, or shameless lusting for sex, it's the angry cigarette afterward, where people sing about how angry they are at the whole state of affairs. What is so shocking to me is how blatantly the singers and 'artists' can hide their negative lyrics beneath a facade of catchy tunes and shameless music videos, meaning most people will be attracted not so much by the lyrical side of the music, but to the tune that they can so readily hum or sing along to.

You see, most people in the world, are of the uncomplicated variety. They aren't prepared to challenge their mind with interpreting the 'subtle' overtones of the music they listen to. For the most part, they are content to mindlessly sing along to this music, without really ever giving any thought to just what the song stands for. It is this brainlessness of society that the trash-sellers aka 'artists' exploit so well. In fact, I really have to hand it to these singers, more specifically, the people who market them. They are the real social engineers, the psychologists of the world today. The sinful manipulation of the society, how they mould entire generations of people to accept the music they produce as somehow being acceptable.

I tell you, Hilary Duff is the best social engineer there is. Starting off with the innocent-enough kid's show, graduating to becoming a 'singer' via the route of making it big as an actress, her tunes are the typically catchy, stick-in-the-head variety. But just delve a little beneath the tinkly tune, and you find her songs are no different to any of the other fish-livers drifting around. Lyrics such as 'Let the rain fall down and wash away my tears....I'm coming clean'. For pants' sakes, how negative do you want to be? What is there to be so sad about? That's just one example. Look at all the songs Miss Duff has churned out and you will expose her as being nothing more than a childish, pointless whinebag who leaves nothing to artistic interpretation, shamelessly manipulating the 'music-lovers' of the world with some cute jingle which belies her front as a teen actress with a face most dirty old men would masturbate to, and that's all people will ever remember. No, I do not think there has been anyone out there who has carefully considered the lyrics of Hilary Duff. Nor have I even gone into the shameless sex-peddling of Britney and Holly Valance or the mind-numbing valueless dead algae that is rap and R&B.

R&B is even worse as a genre. Not only does it, like most pop, reduce people to mindless reasonless negative piles of brain-dead horse shit, it actually as a whole devalues the entire music industry and society. The very fact that these 'artists' [and when it comes to these shit-merchants I use the term really too liberally] can so shamelessly utilise sex and lust to sell their music is just the best proof that people never think about just what they're listening to. I once saw some 16-year old back in Malaysia [no doubt up there amongst the mainstream-worshipping capitals of the world] walking down the street with her earphones on singing out loud "Hey baby I want you to shake your ass, Oh yes I want to shake my ass" or some weird shit like that. I literally wanted to grab that numbskull by the throat, shake her a few times and bang her head against a rough wall whilst screaming "Do you know what the fuck you're singing to?!" It's people like that who piss me off, pointless sludge-for-brains who add no value or intellectual thought to the world and brain-rape-artists are all too eager to manipulate to their wealth-making advantage. To me, rap and R&B is nothing more than brain-blowing shit in 4-4 timing which does nothing for society but encourage children and young people to dress like skanks and invite rape which when it does happen these people will only wonder why. Uncomplicated, pointless music which really is too challenging for most people to try and figure out anyway.

It burns me up inside that people can actually become possessive about mainstream music. I've actually seen people get pissed off when they hear more intellectual people like myself [I am totally NOT ashamed to admit] question the music they listen to, as if it were a trait that was actually worth defending. Not for the first time was I talked down in the public for being some old-fashioned bourgeoisie who thought too much, while in the midst of launching another attack of vitriol against that retarded excuse for music, emo/ punk/whatever they choose to be on the day. Imagine that! I was accused of thinking too much! Does this say something then about the people who think too little? To me, music these days is for soft-minded, brainless, poor decision-makers who will never be able to commit to anything, think through a decision, make any vaguely intellectual insight or ponder any form of valid thought school, their minds fuzzed up by their thoughtless worshipping of mind-numbing brainwash material which carries no message and allows for no mind-building interpretation or artistic consideration.

To all those maintream-worshippers who are reading this, here's a challenge for you. Think of this the next time you see Nelly or Green Day collecting their 1,350th Grammy and hear them being referred to as 'artists'. Wait, I'm sorry, you can't. I win.