2006 in music

The last new album I heard was Madonnas latest in very late 2005. So what can I say, I haven't got a clue what the world+dog have been listening to. I've noticed that the 80s is sort of in vogue. I've been playing old dr. Dre albums and Talking Heads remastered. Not that I care about the remastering. I like the music in Inuyasha.

Not much of a track record(pun intended) for a self proclaimed pop music producer.

The music I'm writing(producing) these days is technological and very naive. Dreamy, distanced, irrelevant. You can dance to it.

Here's a review I picked up:

http://www.calendarlive.com/music/reviews/cl-et-chemical24oct24,0,5820177.story?coll=cl-albumreviews

My chemical romance certainly hit this reviewers good spot. I suppose their sales have been excellent as well. I haven't heard it. But reading the review got me thinking about how dead pop(rock included, rock is pop now) really is. A pastiche of itself. I am deeply bored by it. I've listened to the radio a few times and these last couple of days I've watched some MTV. And while rockbands are faced with the challenge of making something new out of tired old riffs pop producers are struggling with... emptines?

Listening to Justin Timberlakes latest hits(produced by Timbaland) sounds like a polish copy of Justin Timberlake. Low budget recycling of the last five years in rythm. I am truly bored by that too. Futurefunk? p-lease maybe it was FUTUREfunk in 1989 but that was a generation ago, now it's just plain funk. Fact is that Princes Batman soundtrack sounds far newer than Timbalands latest effort. I don't even like funk, it's too smooth. I can like futurefunk but it has to sound like it's made 2016.

Me myself and I is also looking to that past and the future. To mesh them postmodernly. But really I'm bored, postmodernism is so yesterday. It's just not modern anymore B-). Fashion. Vogue.

I guess I'm just too old to care about music. I've heard most genres since the beginning of notes by now, new bands in old genres isn't all that exciting.

Japanese plastic pop reuses old western genres in quite innovative ways, but still. You know. Bored.

Think I'll check out the Iranian refugee pop community in LA next. Nah, boring.

I guess I miss a rebel.

In this age of ultraconformisn... Boring.

" I get, I get, I get -Get a feeling
I get, I get, I get -Get a dreaming "

Rockstar is making big money reusing the same levels of their old games in new games. Their savings however is not passed on to the consumer. Boring.

A bomb just went off in Baghdad. Boring.

And there went Tikrit. And the Kurds.

We are at war with peace. Boring.

I watched two seasons of 24 before I realized it was but a glorification of suffering. When the world goes bad people want sacrifice. Human sacrfice, as an artist I'm supposed to glorify it. Scotts Gladiator was exactly on time. Boring.

The realityshows on TV is but the Colosseum today, real peoples real suffering, gee I get a hard on just thinking about it. Boring.



Problem is this are all previous century problems. They don't have any relevance anymore, outdated, outmoded, history.

The music of this century isn't going to resemble that of the previous century any more than 1950s rock'n'roll resembled 1850s classism(a retro movement -retro is really outdated). And this century is certainly not going to be about oil, democracy, womens liberation(anyones liberation for that matter), capitalism or nuclear bombs or power.

Dad, why is the nuclear bomb outdated?

You see, son, in the previous century the nuke was a marvel of technology, built for the price of Africa twice over, producing a glorious sun on the earth for a few seconds.

Now all we think of when we hear nuke is garbage. Once a city, now rubble. Once a man, but after half an hour of radiation his face falls off.

That is what a nuke represents to this century. Garbage. It's a pretty useless extremely expensive large scale garbage creator.

Atomic energy is a fucking joke.

Like this Litvienko guy, he critizised the establishment and the establishment expended a vast amount of money to kill him ritualistically. I suppose to send a message to others. If you critisize us, there is no extreme we won't go to to kill you. Ofcourse the establishment is still living in the previous century and their actions cannot possibly affect the now.

That is why the establishment is out. It didn't want to come into this century so it stayed in the previous one. And since the previous one is over so is the establishment. The establishment doesn't exist anymore, it just hasn't realized it yet.

Ofcourse the death-throes of an establishment aren't very nice to look at. Large scale human sacrifice never is. To soothe its despairing people the establishment needed large scale human slaughter, and the total death toll in Iraq alone is nearing two million since we first started to crave their blood. But that isn't enough, even the aztek beat us there. What we want is massive suffering on unprecedented scales. Like making 100 million people starve to death every year while we're burning millions of tons of our own "surplus" food. And if that doesn't do it for you in share perverse beatiality we send TV crews down there to get close ups. Nothing like watching some pregnant 16 year old girl starve to death horribly while we're eating dinner right?

I feel like I wanna come just thinking about it.

Well, I guess that concludes the year in music 2006. Not a single listenable record come out. But that makes perfect sense, records are of the last century and have no place in this one. Most pop now is so transparent I can hardly even see it, but if you hold it up to the light and tilt it you can see this faint dying glow, the remnants of the previous century.

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