Epiphany about music...

I THINK I made a huge discovery about the current situation of music...

Over the past 3 years, I've been reading/hearing a lot about how music is dumbed down....how the radio is wack....or how artists nowadays just suck in general...which I agree with to a degree...but I think TOO much blame is being put on the artists, while NOT ENOUGH blame is being put on US, the people who they make music for...Take a moment to look at these points:

1)Music Downloading: Music downloading has to be the biggest factor in the lag of creativity. The phenomenon of downloading has made music VERY accessible to people. I mean why go to the nearest store or mall or wherever else people go, to BUY music. (Buying music is the next point of course.) The lack of experience that comes with: Going to the music section where the CD to be bought is stored, actually busting out your money/card to pay for it, unravelling the outside plastic cover thing that takes ten minutes to fully get unwrapped, popping the CD in your car, taking the LONG way home so you can listen to the CD, telling the homies you just got the CD, bumpin' through residential neighborhoods with the speakers on blast, etc etc. You can do SOME of this stuff with just downloading music from places like Itunes or wherever else, but its nothing exciting..(though some people may claim it saves time, saving time doesn't always mean better. Didn't know I needed to be in a rush?) I still go to Best Buy to buy CDs I find worth it. Let alone I still BUY music....I'm just sayin....


2)BUYING music: It's obvious most artists are in it for the money. I mean they wanna make good music, but they wanna get paid for it too. So it's like, "If I ain't gonna get paid to do this...why put my time and effort in making it great?" Kinda coinciding with downloading, but when you download a song, especially a leaked song that isn't suppose to be out for MONTHS, you make the demand for that artists' work unbalanced. It's like Kanye's or Lupe's upcoming albums. (If Lasers ever gets released (That's another story for another day)) The songs that have been leaked from those albums aren't as good in my opinion now, if they were released when they were suppose to. Because now when they album comes out, it's like "This ain't nothing special. I heard this before. So that anxious feeling of "MAN I CAN'T WAIT TO HEAR IT" changes to "When is this shit gonna be on limewire?" Again with the downloading...if such sites didn't exist, the experience you get when buying an album or single or whatever would be better. Because that's kidna what you are paying for too. You wait a year or however  long it takes for another piece of work to be released from an artist. A single or two may be released just to give a taste of what's gonna be on the album, then BAM some classic shit drops...

Also, I think artist put out pop-like, radio dumbed down songs, just to stay relevant...I mean with people gettin new music EVERYDAY, your shit is going to be an afterthought within a couple of days to some people...versus your album becoming an afterthought MONTHS after it drops....That's why artists have about 3 good songs on the album and the rest is wack...they have to put some shit together as soon as they can so they don't get lost....and I personally like quality over quantity....that's just me anyways...

3)Media outlets-Is it me, or do they just NOT play music videos on MTV/BET anymore? Not to mention the videos people be voting for (If they really vote..(Or if the videos they vote for are really being played)) are kinda wack...I mean watch a 106 and Park episode in the near future, THEN go watch it back from the first couple of seasons. (Back with A.J. and Free were the host.) Not only is the vibe completely different, but I THINK the quality of videos/songs are better from those earlier seasons. I'm just sayin! Where's TRL??? BRING BACK MUSIC VIDEOS!! Youtube is coo....but I should be able to see some decent stuff on T.V. for once....

I'm just sayin yall...I know Artists should be responsible for what kind of music they put out...but they put out the kind the music that caters to our tastes...and if we are giving off the vibes that we like a certain type of music...THAT'S what they are going to make. Get on your grown man/WOman and start trying to change it! After all, music is the soundtrack to our lives...