Melbourne I love you, but Washington?

Music is good. Music as an idea is good. It is a positive word that symbolises our imagination of and creation of sounds interrelating to evoke a positive response from within. Music helps to shape our model of the world; our percieved view of our own identity can often be constructed around our particular taste in music. We identify with singers, songwriters, guitarists, bassists, drummers and so on because it helps drive our youthful disillusions that we too can be somebody great. And also because we feel a foreboding sense of attachment to sentimentality. Thus we hold on to those artists and bands that impacted on people in such away that their lives were never to be the same.

Whether you listen to folk, rock, punk, reggae, or whatever. I'm talking about the songs that make you stop. The songs that make you close your eyes. Throw your fists in the air in time to the music. I'm talking about lyrics that are meaningful, or atleast passionate. I'm talking about people whose were driven to innovate. Artists who were drawn to change the face of music. Bands who were motivated to change the way people understood music. Music that evoked energy and life from within the listener. Who is doing that in Melbourne right now? Everyone is looking for the new sound of Melbourne. The next big thing.....??

People like to guess. People like to feel like they have some kind of knowledge that is unattainable to everyone else. People say that disco may be the new sound. Disco does not, and never will reach a large enough audience to actually define and reflect the identity of a city let alone a generation. There are all kinds of theorys out there... How about this one......

Look at yourself Melbourne. You decided to give up on thinking for yourself.. You only do what Triple J tells you to. Are you even aware that there are local radio stations. Have you heard of RRR? So you decided to forget yoursel because a radio station has forgotten its roots. Your fed bullshit songs like, barbara streisand and magic fountain and you lap it up. You actually call up and request to hear those songs again! Your new sound is Washington, Art Vs Science and other acts that lack back bone. Thats right! Here's your new fucking sound! Poetry-Gone. Innovation-Gone. Talented musicians like the boys from Art Vs Science have to resort to repetitive gimmik songs in order to actually make money. And musicians are actually caring about making money. The want to be products, they want to have there balls ripped out... And it works. Washington just made the record for selling out the most shows at the Corner. There you go melbourne- your new sound- CRAP.