Something that has been on my mind for a while.

So I know this gets thrown around a lot, and a lot of people bitch about it, but really it is something that is on my mind a lot, and really makes me angry.

Why is it that so many people with almost no talent "write" and record songs that sound like carbon copies of whomever their favorite musician is, and get so much recognition and praise for it? Seriously, this pisses me off. They come up with extremely generic pop music, that sounds just like every pop musician and band before them, and these music critics and radio DJs decide its amazing, beautiful and unique, which brings a tear to one's eye because of how soulful these young people are (just like all the other musicians who have done it, imagine, tons of bands and musicians sounding exactly the same, and getting the exact same praise, being called unique and soulful). It brings these useless critics nearly to tears, and it brings me to the nearest toilet to vomit. This happens so often that a lot of young people with talent, who start off making some very interesting actually original music that has potential to lead somewhere, to decide "Hey, I could keep making the music I want to, or I could just write a three chord rock ballad and get false recognition, fame and (so long as they are not deemed a one-hit-wonder) fortune for a while, maybe grow old and continuously flog the dead horse that is my career a-la Rolling Stones, AC/DC and Guns N' Roses."

It sickens me how much this stifles the creativity of today's youth (it also sickens me how materialistic we have become, but that's a whole other story). What people need to do is wake up and realize that they're allowed to be different, they can write songs with more than three to five chords, songs don't necessarily need the verse-chorus template. There should be an unwritten rule when a band signs a contract, or even gets started. They should follow in the steps of the amazing band Isis, who will forever be known as an amazing band for the music they created. They were together for 13 years, from 1997-2010. As they had written in their blog when stating that they were going to split up as a band they said: "Simply put, ISIS has done everything we wanted to do, said everything we wanted to say." ... "We've seen too many bands push past the point of a dignified death and we all promised one another early on in the life of the band that we would do our best to ensure ISIS would never fall victim to that syndrome." (the full blog post can be found here http://isistheband.blogspot.com/2010/05/isis-has-reached-end_18.html)

If only bands (like the previously mentioned AC/DC etc) would do what Isis has done, and proverbially cleared the path, left it open for new projects and new bands (not necessarily with young people, but even bands created from the remnants of the split up groups of the past) to come into the open, if these mainstream pop-rock bands had just died gracefully ages ago, we would be getting a lot more new talent within the mainstream, instead of hearing this endless wave of factory-made cookie cutter music.