Saturday night made me realise just how much I despise techno/dance music. It's robbed us of the talent of amazing artists and yes, many of whom have 'sold out' if you like and decided to go the club route in order to cash-in on the craze. However, this fade has compromised a generation of hearing some decent voices. Our radios are inundated with formulaic tracks which are lyrically lacking and vocally vapid. Someone like Adele, who is indeed very talented and arguably one of the best voices of our generation, has become something of an enigma because frankly, she just sings. In this day and age, you can't JUST sing. You must do more. You must entertain (and not in the Michael Jackson 'Bad' concert kind-of-way). In order for a female artist to have commercial success, she needn't sing or sing that well at least. She needs to have a certain look, she needs to be half-naked half the time (which eliminates the first requirement), she needs to have a dance track and she needs to appear eccentric. The list is endless but those are just the basic few requirements.
I really can't wait for this craze to end! I've had it with these tuneless tracks that do nothing but give me a headache and leave my limbs in limbo because of their ridiculously fast beats to which no man can dance - properly that is.
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