Music Banter - Fake Mainstream S-hit

Taylor Swift released 8 seconds of static only to have it shoot to #1 on Canadian iTunes. Now maybe Canadians have been slipping down the pole when it comes to musical taste--they gave us Bieber after all--but I really don't think even they would decide 8 seconds of static was the best thing they've heard--then again, maybe it is judging from how incredibly bad music has been since 2000 (1990 tbh).

Um, 8 Seconds of Static Put Taylor Swift at No. 1 on Canada

It's all fake. First this track was not "accidentally" released. All this was planned. It was just a way of grabbing Swift yet more publicity. And it was already decided that this "accidentally" released track would then shoot to #1 and --Hey! The brilliant Taylor Swift does it again everybody!!! What wasn't planned was the glitch that produced 8 seconds of static. I'm sure it embarrasses them that somehow this ended up reaching #1 as easily as a real song would have. But it's always funny when this stuff happens and exposes all the fakery going on.

I recall reading once about physicist Richard Feynman reviewing some science texts for some school district. At a committee meeting, he gave his opinions of the textbooks and how they could be improved. Then someone asked him about a set of three books that had been distributed to each committee member they wanted to use for some particular science class. Feynman replied that the pages were blank so he couldn't comment on them. This caused an uproar because, you see, the rest of the committee had already rated these three books and giving them a passing grade! Therefore, they said, it was impossible that the pages could have been blank or that wouldn't have happened. Feynman said his copies had blank pages.

A representative of the book manufacturer present at the meeting spoke up and sheepishly admitted the pages in ALL the distributed copies were blank because the company did not have the time necessary to layout the text but was bound by contract to submit three volumes even if the pages were blank so that's what they did. The committee sat there in embarrassed silence having graded three textbooks as satisfactory even though there was nothing in them. Obviously, NONE of these jerkwads had even bothered to crack these books open and flip through the pages in even the most cursory fashion.

So if you ever wondered why our formal schooling sucks, there you have it. It's run by a bunch of phonies who are only in it for the money and don't give a damn about doing their jobs.

Here in Detroit, during the time that the second Shuttlecraft flight was supposed to have happened, the early edition of the Detroit News contained a paragraph of how the Shuttlecraft lifted off flawlessly and "rode a brilliant plume of flame through the morning sky." The problem was, the mission was scrubbed due to bad weather. The News released this supposed eyewitness account hoping to beat its competitors to the punch and would have gotten away with it had the mission not been cancelled. So you can't help but wonder how much of the news you read and hear is just bulls-hit that never happened but they never got called on it. Fakery for the sake of money.

The New York Times printed quite a number of Jayson Blair stories before finding out they were faked. How many reporters have faked stories and never been caught? How many news articles have you read that made you mad or sad or angry or scared or happy that may have been faked in order to manipulate your feelings and therefore your core beliefs, your politics, your religion or lack of?

Why should the music industry be anymore honest? It shows how public taste is manipulated. The mainstream idiot was supposed to hear about this accidentally released Swift track going #1 in Canada and think, "Hey, I have to get that track! Fans in Canada loved it!" Well, they didn't love it because they didn't hear it. So how did it end up #1? Hmm, that's a good question, isn't it? Had the 8 seconds of static fiasco not occurred no one would have known anything was up.

There are no hits. It's already been decided before the song is released that it will be #1 if the artist is a big enough money-maker already. It tarnishes all artists including Elvis and the Beatles. We always hear how many hits they had but how many really were hits and how many were decided beforehand that they would be hits no matter what it sounded like or how many copies it actually sold? They knew you'd buy because they told you to buy it in such a way that you think it was your decision. It was decided for you.

This is the recording industry's steroid era (lasting several decades now). For those of you thinking pop music can't be corrupted or ruined--news flash! It already is and it always has been.

The only uncontaminated music is non-mainstream (NOT "alternative" which is complete garbage). If you listen to pop, don't ever think you know what you like and nobody else dictates your tastes to you. You are owned and everything you like you were told to like. And like the good little sheep you are, you complied.