Pop music will kill our culture.

A few months back, the interwebs were a' twitterin' about a possible quote from Justin Bieber, where in the pop star states; "I feel like the Kurt Cobain of my generation, but people just don't understand me." To start off with, what a remarkably stupid comment to make, especially for a pop star. Here are a few examples of where I believe they both are the same;

1.  They are both Pisces.
2.  Both have recorded music.
3.  They both died young.
4.  ???
5.  Profit.

Now of course, I was forced to avoid obvious similarities, such as both have 2 eyes. We don't need the list any longer, now do we?
 Now is a good time to point out that this quote is probably not true, and simply made up by the Bieber Report, what I believe is a Justin Bieber fan magazine/article/thing.

Oh, and scratch the third point, that is only tentative.



Picture courtesy of The High Definite (http://www.thehighdefinite.com/2010/09/quotes-from-this-morning/)

Now on to my next point of popular musicians pushing their way into an area of art they don't belong, I introduce everyone reading to the fabulous new Musical Insturment Museum in Scottsdale, Arizona!

Personally, I found much of the museum quite interesting, although with no real vested intrest in the items on display, I did find a slight bit of boredom in a few places *cough* Asian music *cough* However, despite all the wonderful items on display, I was quite shocked when I came to the end of the "Famous Musicians" section when I discovered a guitar from the Jonas Brothers. Now normally, I would only mildy rage over this travesty of modern music, but what really gets to me is that of all the insurments on display, of Santana, of John Lennon, of Eric Clapton, only 1 insturment is signed. Three guesses whose, first two don't count. Thats right, the Jonas Brothers are so pretentious, they believe that a museum wants their signed 2007 Les Paul Junior. Good going geniuses, no one cares about your horribly put together Disney-based-purity-ring-music or your crappy guitar. When music history is taught in 30 years, historians won't look back to Disney pop stars and think "What a glorious movement they started" they will think "Ugh, people BOUGHT that???" However, I am a fair person. I give everyone the option to choose for themselves, are these 2 songs really deserving to be on the same loop?


P.S. Feel Free to not listen, you already know the answer to my question.

The amount of pretentious snobbery among these musicians who are not only pop stars, but made by the Disney channel, is tremendous.
In other news, my post for Wednesday (which will be more timely placed on late Tuesday night, time constraints prevent me from doing the same for Monday) will be Aviation based, as to appease what I think is the larger portion of the people who could possibly read this. So all 3 of you will enjoy my post for Wednesday.

The beginning... and a7x

Hello to anyone who might decide to read, or just myself to look back and laugh at myself when I gain more wisdom. I plan on posting one of these at least 3 times a week until I decide its done or it depresses me too much when I realize no one reads it. For today's post, I've "reviewed" a relatively new album out, Avenged Sevenfold's Nightmare.
When I first heard the song "Nightmare" on the radio, it sounded like every other a7x song I had heard. As in, it didn't interest me in the slightest. However, recently, as I heard another song from the album, "Welcome to the Family," I began to show a little more interest, and then, upon closer inspection, found "Nightmare" was the number 1 song on the Billboard 200 in August. After buying the album, I've put it in my (small) list of albums I am willing to leave in my car to listen all the way through.
My favorite songs off of the mixed album are "Nightmare," "Welcome to the Family," "Fiction," and "Victim." "Fiction" and "Victim" are two of the slow songs on the album, and surprised me when I heard them. For an album that has really heavy and fast songs on the radio,  half the songs on the album were a welcome break from break-neck paced metal. "So Far Away" opens up to me similar to a Metallica song, making me think it was a cover, but I have yet to substantiate that idea. (I'm sure if you care to hear Metallica's music, you'll figure out what song it is, and if you don't like Metallica, you won't care anyways, so I won't bother sifting through a bunch of music I dislike to reference it properly).
All in all, this album morphs together really fast and hard songs and slow and beautiful songs. To any metal fan, or alternative rock fan, or, apparently, a large portion of the country, I would recommend acquiring this album.