Today's entertainment industry is on the decline. There aren't really many arguments that can be made against this opinion. For example, take one of todays most popular program's, the Jersey Shore. This show doesn't just show, let's be frank here, lower forms of being; it delights in them. A spray-on tan, breast enhanced, revealing clothing wearing, dance club hopping, hair-product induced Gomorrah filled with egos to boggle the mind, that frankly makes my eyeballs want to puke. It makes me wonder: what ever happened to the golden years in television? Back when the raciest thing on the idiot box was "The Fonz" kissing more than one girl in one episode of "Happy Days"? (even then they insisted that they were all Fonzie's girl friends because "kissing without a relationship" didn't exist back then). What happened to the days when being the good guy was cool and not the opposite? What happened to the days when John Wayne always brought the bad guy to justice? I yearn for good television in an age where truly all good ideas have been exhausted. But it isn't just in the television industry that this moral decline is occurring, the music industry is also traveling downhill.
In my personal opinion, today's popular music sounds like what would happen if you crammed all the cast members of "The Jersey Shore" into a cannon and blasted them into a synthesizer which was then blasted into and editing room with an electronic microphone, but that's just me. Today's music (much like its television) is focussed on sex. I won't go into any lyrics here, suffice it to say that if you've heard the music, you know what I'm talking about. Whatever happened to bands like The Beatles who said "I wanna hold your hand" ? Music also used to tell a story, but now it is little more than sentence fragments set to a tune with a beat. Mindless drivel that you can dance to, all sounding the same, like using the same reused dough cut with the same dull cookie-cutter. It saddens me on a level not known by many people today, who seem to be happy with the status quo.
Others seem to like this kind of programming and this kind of music, and they look at me as if I have lobsters crawling out of my ears and tap-dancing on my shoulders. Perhaps they're correct in their belief that their music is "good" whereas mine "sucks." Perhaps I'm just the weird one with the "old people music" and the "corny old shows." I believe, however, that I've simply come to expect a higher quality of entertainment than the crudest of humor and the cheap sex attempting to brainwash me like Goebbels or Pepsi cola.
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