The song that made me change my mind!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBAtAM7vtgcIs this the worst piece of creativity I have ever had the misfortune of watching/hearing? Undoubtedly!You have to wonder about the state of the recording industry and fame in general when a song with lyrics like,"One good girl is worth a thousand b**ches. BAM! BAM!" and "She asked me what I wish for on my wishlist. Have you ever asked your b**ch for other b**ches?" has received 6942810 hits on YouTube. With a half-naked woman, famous for simply being famous, astride a motorbike in the video clip, there is a question whether the youtube visits have been for the song of for the half-nakedness, but even that is concerning.What is this saying about fame and art?Here we have a famous rap artist serving up a song which, to my ear, not a single moment of artistic worthiness, with a video of similar pap. And now 7107793 have watched it! That is 165000 more views in the time it has taken me to type this post. That is BONKERS!Again, what is this saying to our students about fame and art?Another line in the song caught my attention... "I wanna f*** you hard on the sink. After that give you something to drink. Step back, can't get spunk on the mink." REALLY! What the hell is this? If this is songwriting then something has gone terribly wrong! Terribly, TERRIBLY WRONG!!!Now, up until today I have always been one to argue that all music is there to be appreciated. There is no such thing as bad music, just music that I don't prefer to listen to. Well, today I have changed my mind.I'm going to, for the first time ever, go on the record and condemn this song as an insult to music, an insult to anyone who has the misfortune of having it crawl into their ears, and a complete insult to the notion of creativity.And then, as I sit back and try to scrape the refrains of the inane and sad self flagellatory words out of my ears I am actually inspired!If this is now what passes for popular music, there is hope for us all, even my daughter, who is 6. The songs she sings in the bath are better than this s*** any day!!!!!