Life's Annoying Music #4: It's a 3-fer today!

It turns out there's all kinds of annoying music out there. You hear it in the car (where luckily you can turn it off or change it), you hear it at work or at the store (where you unfortunately have to put up with it)...and it's just incredible how much most of today's music SUCKS ASS!!!

Now, I don't consider myself a music snob. If anything, I'm just the opposite. I like a wide variety of music, and I was educated in music in school. I've loved music my whole life. My life would be empty without it.

But, the thing is, music has lost something over the last 10-15 years. It's no longer original. There's no feeling to it. It's all about the record companies using the acts they sign as playing cards in a big game to see who'll win the biggest pot. And the acts do the same thing, themselves. They write songs they know will sell to the mindless masses.

I think it has to do with life experiences. Music's great songs have always been based on life experiences, or at the very least the composer can tell a great story within the 3-4 minutes alloted him/her. Nobody has these life experiences anymore, and those of us who do are too busy living them to be able to sit down and put them to freaking music! And if those songs are being written, I'm sure as hell not hearing them. Why? Because all the music industry wants to sell us anymore is music that hot girls can shake their ass to, and today's songwriter's version of a "life experience" is who they've banged lately, or they didn't get their double squirt of mocha in their macchiato. Oh, the horror.

Oh well. Enough about that. Here's a three-pack sample of today's poor excuse for music:

1. Justin Timberlake - Sexy Back: Justin, here's a tip for you...repeating the same words over and over and over and over for several minutes is not a "song". There's nothing more annoying to me in this world than constant repetition, especially in music, and if I hear this song too many more times, I swear to you I will track you down, wherever you are...and I will be forced to use harsh language in your presence. I'm not a violent person, so that's about all I got.
2. Nelly Furtado w/Timbaland - Promiscuous: Well, here we go. The newest artist to sell herself out and hook up with the black-producer-of-the-minute, just for the sake of selling more records. Why don't you just call the song I'm A Huge Slut And Don't Care Who Knows It...either way, it's a real nice message to be sending out to all the young girls talking their parents into blindly buying this crap for them.
3. Green Day - When I Come Around: Now, it's not really Green Day I have the problem with. I think they're pretty cool. They're definitely original enough that when they're played on the radio, I know it's them, and I like their stuff. But this song...oh my god...will you guys please go back and re-record this? Billie Joe, you've had some success since releasing this song, so I'm sure you have a little extra cash...have you ever had that sinus problem taken care of? Good lord, man...if I were you back then, and a producer wanted me to record an album while I was in the middle of a head cold like that, I would have told him not until I had downed at least two quarts of Robitussin and slept for about a week. Truth be told, you still look a little sleepy, duder.