Generic bland soulless manufactured corporate pop music, spoon-
fed for mass consumption especially the youth that the manufacturers think are gullible, dumb and
will listen to any stupid bullshit the
radio DJs
will play on their
local radio stations. It has pedestrian lyrics, automated rhythms (often sampled or at least stolen from pervious musical sources), repeating choruses over and over again, banal sexual lyrical themes and more often than not lotsa lotsa lotsa autotune to disguise the fact that the vocalist can't sing worth a damn. It's on the fucking radio dial, on the fucking PA in the supermarket, in the fucking CD bins, on the fucking videos - it's a
massive brainwash. There's some good modern, mature, serious music out there but these days you have to look a lot harder to find it.
1. Since the early 90s the Billboard Hot 100 has ceased being relevant (as if it ever reflected
America's tastes in the first place). Now there are several charts for several categories - for who else cares. There's the 'adult contemporary' for the suburban white 'soccer mom' urban families, the 'Christian contemporary'
pop with a high JPM ('Jesus Per Minute') ratio, the
Hot Dance (the higher BPM the better), 'contemporary country' (a bastardized genre run by the '
hat acts') and other Pure Pap For Non-People.
2.
Trash Pop stars are often here today, gone tomorrow. They get famous mostly because of their videogenic looks.
3.
Trash Pop is so stupid, anybody can assemble it. I'm no songwriter but you could put some LSD or XTC in my drink and I could write better songs than that when I'm stoned. You probably could too.
4. I visited Niagara Falls, NY last year and while the historical sites are still worth checking out, the falls view end is all douched up. $8 burritos, cheap souvenir shops selling cheap junk, parking meters taking $2 change good for 45 minutes tops, 'family-oriented'
money-stealing tourist traps galore and an outdoors PA system belching generic stupid
trash pop music in the air - all over the fucking place.
