The loonies think they're taking over

I was watching Television today, The New Music on Muchmusic to be exact, and they were talking to The Academy Is. The Academy Is was pointing out the obvious trends in music, and relating the music that they, and Fallout Boy are playing, akin to what Nirvana and Pearl Jam were making, and that the bands that are coming out like them now, are sort of making the new movement out of the (this is a rough quote) "Avril format songs", and the "Pearl Jam soundalikes". They're saying that they're breaking away from the machine and that they're somehow creating some new thing.

Here's my problem. First of all, if anyone says they're creating a trend, then they're probably already in the thing, they just don't realize it. Do you remember ever hearing any of the bands in the whole "Grunge" thing ever say to an interviewer "Hey, we're making this force in music that can't be stopped. Look out for us."? No. Because they were too busy making the music and not caring whether they were being labeled as the next big thing. They were there to play.

This band here says that they're going to change the style of music today, they're going to change up the radio and blah. That's a very big thing to say, considering that they're naming Fallout Boy as one of the main acts in the movement. Does that really, truly make sense? I could find about five other bands that are making the same music as both of these bands, because everything now in mainstream is a nice carbon copy of everything else. That's not a movement. That's what ends up creating a movement. That's what led to a shift in the early nineties, and all of the other times that mainstream needed a kick in the ass.

I guess they are kind of right, they're adding to the sludge that is current format-boring music, and in turn, at some point they'll be another name in the list of bands that got thrown to the wayside when this new musical goliath comes out of nowhere and shocks the industry.

Sure, we need it. And I'm glad they realize it, but bands like that are not it, because they're already fucking everywhere. What they have to do is realize it, and THEN they might actually help. Because right now, I'm more happy to say that I don't listen to the radio. Make the bands hear themselves and their clones. Make them wallow in it. Maybe someday they'll realize how their idea of new things was getting automatically tossed into the questionable pile.

Someday everything will be okay again, just for a little while, but right now is not it.