Saturday, 24 May 2008

Taking Them Down A Peg

Now, I'm not one for excluding anyone from creating music, sounds, noise and releasing it into the public domain, nor am I against anyone attempting to contribute to the industry surrounding all these individuals making music, sounds and noise. Perhaps though, there should be a far more even playing field for everyone to engage on.

This means NO MORE records from the likes of Scarlett Johansson, Aygness Deyne, Paris Hilton and whoever else already has a career and wants to inflict their musical tastes on us. I also resent articles written about famous musicians daughters being in the industry = Scarlet Page is NOT the fucking best photographer in modern music. She photographs boring bands in a completely bland way. Why the hell are we celebrating he-- oh, yeah. Because she was born from the loins of the guy who penned Stairway To Heaven.
Well then, the day Scarlett Johansson gets on the cover of NME is the day music di-- shit.
Okay, the day someone named after a fruit gets famous for being related t--- hang on, there's at least two of them.
Erm...the day bit part actors get hyped to the extreme in bands with stupid names is-- ah, that git from Peep Show.

These are all sticking points for me. I'm not particularly vehement against them of course - as I explained above, I'm not AGAINST these people taking part. Perhaps, though we can reserve the pawing, worshipping and column inches for actual musical relevance rather than celebrity status. Is this too much to ask? I suppose the other problem is musicians being thrown into celebrity status. Perhaps they should be banned from tabloid front pages too. I'm all for that.