tigertot wrote:
Regarding the Brit Awards, I've heard Royal Blood & Foo Fighters, but how many of the other winners are actually musicians?
Its quite interesting really, because its often said that the music industry goes round in circles.... In the 70's, mainstream music had become stale and very, very poor in quality, then Punk, New Wave and the New Romantics came along, and for a short period mainstream music became bearable.... That then faded away and was eventually replaced with the worst era in music ever, the late 80's, when utter rubbish like Wet Wet Wet, Simply Red, Phil Collins and rock groups with bubble perms were forced down people's throats and they sold records by the bucketload.
Eventually, people saw the error of their ways, and even that bastion of sh!te, Radio 1, began to sack that lot off, as Madchester, Grunge and Britpop brought a whiff of 'cool' to the mainstream.... Sadly, that faded away, as talentless gimps like Robbie Williams jumped on the bandwagon and with the introduction of the glorified karaoke that is X Factor, we now find ourselves with the awful situation we are in right now, where somebody as bland and boring as Ed Sheeran is seen as cutting edge...
Hopefully, if history proves correct, we should pretty soon see some sort of shift change in the music scene.... However, it will require mainstream radio to show some balls and rid itself of the collection of chancers who currently infiltrate the airwaves, and instead find presenters who actually believe in the music and are not just in the business to be matey with the One Direction's and Sam Smith's of the world... People like Nick Grimshaw, Scott Mills and Fearne Cotton are absolute poison in this respect, with their constant promotion of the X Factor glitterati and their ilk.
Of course, there is still great music to be found if you mine a bit deeper than the mainstream, but as for the Brits, for the foreseeable future, they will only get a lot, lot worse.
