So I just read Judds blog as I usually do and one in particular jumped out at me. Music. Music is a wonderful thing. Judd made a good point, most songs today are not written by the artists themselves.. usually they have a team of writers do it for them.. doesn't that sort of defeat the purpose? Whatever happened to music as therapy and release, music being about the music, the lyrics the experience and not about the money. Fuck radio and fuck commercialism.. some of the greatest bands have had 1 or 2 radio hits and yet they are still highly successful. It's bands like this that have the most dedicated fans, who will fly across the country to see them, who will by every single album of theres, watch countless hours of bootleg footage shot from concerts and watch/read every last interview they can find. If I had any musical talent thats the kind of musician I would want to be. I wouldnt need to play 5 concerts in capitals cities. I would travel right around australia and play at pubs and clubs, open air concerts, at ute musters, at shows and fairs. I'd play for the fans and every song I would play would be one either me or someone else in the band had written.
I don't want to hear you on my radio singing the same god damn line over and over again. I want to hear about you're life. I want to know about your trials and tribulations. I want you to tell me how it felt when your best friend passed away, I want to know what you did last night and how you feel this morning. I want to know what you and your FRIENDS did, not your groupies, your roadies and your back up dancers. I want to know how it felt playing to 100 hundred people in a tiny outback pub in the middle of nowhere. Don't tell me you want to ride my disco stick, or that people are begging to if you seek amy. Don't tell me to cry you a fucking river either.
Sing me a song with your whole heart. Scream those words til there is nothing left inside of you. Reduce me to tears with the sheer awesomeness of the emotion you produce.
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