Peace up, A town down.

I've been listening to really bad music lately. Not because music in general has been bad lately but because I've been submitting myself to situations where I'm subject to poor music quality. I think we can all agree, that no matter how much you may love to nod your head like yeah and move your hips like yeah, it's generally bad music. Moving on from Miley is Ke$ha, who by all accounts is a self acclaimed boozed up whore, At the same time she is just the slutty-er, non-Disney version of Hannah Montana. Also she has a dollar sign in her name, which I think stands for "$he'll probably swallow." Her song blah blah blah, is a club favorite and is fist-pump-tastic but it's a song about how she doesn't care what you have to say and she just wants to bone in the back of the club. Maybe not the best music to submit your 12 year old to when you let her watch whatever she wants on tv. Just sayin. However, it's not just the ladies. Jason Derulo (In My head), Jay Sean (Down), Young Money (Bedrock) and more are equally guilty. Since the advent of auto-tune, (which I'm not totally knocking cause some of it's sweet), every hit single on the radio involves a guy with an auto-tune chorus trying to copy what Usher did in 2004 with the most epic club hit/epitome of dance music song, "Yeah!" Will everybody just back the fuck up off Usher for one minute? No one will ever top the greatest dance song of all time because it's like going back in time and killing your father before he's had time to do the deed. You would not exist without your father's seed and they would not exist without the likes of Usher.

In retrospect however, I'm not sure if I can tell if radio music was any worse when we were kids. Is Hit me baby one more time any better than Telephone? Or is Bye Bye Bye any worse than Carryout? (Which ironically still has my boy JT on the track.) I guess if I had to make any sense of this, it would be that Smash mouth's All-Star is really no different from IYAZ's Replay which is sad but at the same time maybe just proving that the more things change the more things stay the same.