Crappy music covers

[jamesthedog]

It's bad enough that whenever you turn the radio or TV on, you're bombarded with crap urban music these days (why is this rubbish so popular?), but the amount of artists who are adapting, sampling or using "hooks" from older songs to boost their tracks seems to be ridiculous. They're taking good songs and using them to draw attention to their own pieces of crap- songs that would be completely bland and unnoteworthy if they weren't using these samples. I know sampling is nothing new, but at least in the past it was used tastefully in dance music, rather than being used to pep up crap pieces of urban/r'n'b/rab rubbish. Over the past few months I've heard loads, and today I've heard "You're Not Alone" by Olive being used as the hook for some dreadful rap piece of crap, I think by Tinchy Stryder, but I'm not sure (it may well have been N Dubs, Flow Riders or whoever else is pumping out this crap these days- I don't pay full attention to what the DJ is saying- I assosiate the names with the music, but not the songs. It all sounds the same anyway.). This sort of rubbish is the reason why no-one cares about the charts any more, it's all trash.

Maybe it's time for me to change what radio station I listen to in the car. Trent FM is full of this rubbish, but then I can't think of any other station that's any better- all the other commerical stations are playing the same rubbish, Radio 1 has been shit since the late 90s, Radio 2 doesn't play my sort of thing and neither do any of the other stations like Virgin, and Magic and Gold are too set in the 60s and 70s (I'd prefer a station that's mainly 80s and 90s music).

Comments

[bruno-meles.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a CD changer might be a good idea! As for me, I barely listen to any kind of music. I have no idea why...

[james-2001.livejournal.com]

I barely own any CDs, and I haven't bought any for years! Prefer to spend my money on other things to be honest. My car only has a tape player anyway!