My Generation

"I belong to the blank generation...I can take it or leave it each time." These are the lyrics to the song I COULD have used, but didn't, I used a really obvious song title by The Who, sue me. Fascinating. Yes, I am talking this about the generation gap I feel almost all of the time. I'm not saying this generation is BAD, I'm simply saying it's a bit shit. The music isn't particularly impressive, the television shows are bloody awful for the most part and don't even get me started on films! I can talk about all of that later on, but I do know that I feel very distant. I normally just frustrate people because I inadvertently insult them by scoffing at them when they say they love Pendulum's new song, or I'll say "WHAT?" when they claim the new Fast and Furious film (and there WILL be a new one) is "SICK MAN." It's not sick, it MADE me sick, but it's not 'sick' in the good sense. I also realised recently that I'm just a poor man's Charlie Brooker...so next week will not be a ranting blog. I plan to finish reading the fantastic novel Carrie by Stephen King. I will then comment on my enjoyment of it (as I have read most of it so far) and do a nice happy book review. If you don't like this sudden change in pleasantries...you know what you can do? Fuck off.


Firstly, the music. God it's bland. It's all "Spankin' ma bitch" this and "Pull my hair rude boy" that. I don't object to misogynistic music, I just don't prefer it to say the musings of Damon Albarn and Gorillaz (who by the way, to be a hypocritical twat, are this generation.) I do really really love N.W.A, but that's because they were original! And they were nineties, and hip, and funky and amusing. I mean, just listen to this song by them, off of 'N.W.A and the Posse'


N.W.A - Fat Girl


I mean, honestly, what's not funny about the lyrics "More chins than a Chinese phonebook!" Seriously, it's being offensive but it's meant in jest and it's done with style. Nowadays people sing about one of three things, 1) Which girl they'd like to bang and why, 2) How much they love a girl they want to bang (though they don't explicitly state that they want to bang her), or 3) How much they want to party (and in turn, bang a girl.) 


Can't you absolute morons sing about anything else? The worst thing is, no songs are ever original any more! I always think "How have SO many songs been made? It's amazing, all those different melodies, beats and lyrics." But it's got to the inevitable point. To make music, people are just so stupid they use other people's work and make something really shit.


Classic examples include, 


Jason Derulo - Whatcha Say (Original song sample, Imogen Heap - Hide and Seek) This example is actually quite catchy. 


Lil' Wayne - Some shit, but he used, and ruined The Verve's - Bitter Sweet Symphony.


Some other wanker ruined MGMT - Kids (Which wasn't that great, more annoying, but I have to say that because it came out in the last five years, and therefore is part of my generation ;). )  


The worst thing is, they usually use songs that have been made quite recently! At least use songs that nobody's heard of, so they won't think "HEY WAIT A MINUTE!" 


I realise that's only 3 examples, but I'm not going to do research, you get the point dick face. 


Even songs which are still shit, yet seemingly original turn out to not be. Take M.I.A with Paper Planes. Yep, the whole melody is just the intro to a Clash song. Well done there, raise a hand for originality. Then cut it off and eat it you copying bastard. 


Look the real problem with music is like with Skins which I discussed a couple of weeks back. People want to emulate it.  With the kind of topics they sing about now a days, NOT a good idea. Dizzee Rascal's Bonkers was meant to be satirical...but people want to "wake up to go back to sleep" How is that possibly a GOOD thing? I can't even express my problems with that one lyric. 


On to television...
Look I'll admit that a lot of television is GOOD quality. But this generation certainly dumbs it down for the average viewer. There's so much wrong with a lot of television, I don't even know where to begin. I suppose my problem is the news...all those shitty little bits where they ask the general public their opinion. I don't give a toss about their opinion, it's mundane, unnecessary and wastes my life. Thanks BBC News, if I die because of this, I'm sure you can report it and have people saying really pointless stuff, about how sad it was that I died. (Because everyone will say the same, they don't want to seem like tossers.) IRONY huh? A lot of people probably don't think that's a very good example, I'm pretty sure they've always done the ask the public bit...well...look. I don't like soaps, I don't like shit like Hollyoaks, I especially hate 90210. It's all the same route, materialistic bollocks that makes you feel that you're insignificant. 


And films....all I have to say is, I watch a lot of films, I learn about them, I know a lot of actors, directors and some soundtrack people. I'm a complete film nerd which is why films like Transformers 2 offend me so much. The first one was a vomit of noise combined with a twattish kid wanking over Megan Fox. Why would you want that again?! Apart from the Megan Fox bit...though, in all honesty, she's a bit too obviously hot. You have to be me to understand why that's a problem. Basically, most films are the dumbed down shit that's been made before. Why did you need to remake Nightmare on Elm Street? Only the first was worth laughing at, years later, when the special effects were so outdated, your nan thought they were silly. 


Look, the point I've been trying to make all along is, despite incoherently, is this. Music, film and television and all else connected with what we call this generation isn't terrible...I just feel we could do a bit better? I don't know if humans are getting more stupid, but it seems like it. I think we've made things too easy. It's easy to get a record deal if you're mediocre...just go on any of the numerous talent shows and have them suck your balls. Even if you don't win, someone will offer you a contract. 


Or, to be a actor, just talk in a real cockney accent and BAM! 


You're the new slut who will come and steal Marty away from Charlene and the whole of Albert Square will bang down your doors to get the baby back to give it to child services who are portrayed at being incompetent fools, when they're just trying to help, and you and Charlene will have a fight in the middle of the Square while some onlookers try to break it up, but don't try too hard because they want to see some action. *


*Plausible Eastender's storyline. 


The final point I need to make is, whatever it is that makes this generation so shit, sort it out. For my benefit and yours. Or just be like me, and complain about things pointlessly until your hair falls out and you die of some inane illness like constipation. Our generation has some good things too, I recognise that. Yet, it seems our greatest achievements in the last ten years have been Lady Gaga, the I-Pod Touch (which was shortly ruined with the ludicrous I-Pad) and ME. Just kidding, but keep up the good and push out the bad. We can do better than this guys...in fact, go on, go work on it now, be a better society for me.


Seriously, go away.