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I hate a lot of today's like mainstream stuff in America. It's hard to imagine this crap sells like 500,000k at a time. I mean where are the talented songwriters and musical geniuses who should be following in the footsteps of number one single legends. It's like if you don't talk about sex, drugs or the thought of killing yourself you'll never reach number one of the HOT 100. It's really sad because people constantly say that other countries look towards us for musical inspiration when in fact; I wish they wouldn't in order to save their own musical-gifts.
You know it's bad when every single video they play on MTV's TRL [since they don't play videos hardly anymore] is has a booty shot somewhere and don't even get me started about BET. It's just terrible. That's why I just try to stay away from it as best as I can. It's okay for a little "bump n grind" music every now and then but it's just tacky and irresponsible when it continues to reign for like years at a time.
It's so bad down here in NC; we have little five year old girls who think they have "humps" and "lovely lady lumps" made to be you-what with instead of trying to be the independent-strong women our foremothers have been before. I guess in the end no one feels that they have any responsiblity about that as well. It just goes from the producer to the artists and the parents and so forth.
The only reason I think it's popular is because the people who make them & the people who just do whatever when they give them listening time is because they just aren't ready to see beyond well sexual chemistry and intimacy. But that's just MY OPINION.
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