I just made a tweet saying "I don't have the IQ to live in this world properly", and I really do mean that. It is so hard to run away from all of the pain and suffering that us young people will have to sort through, just due to the simple fact that the past three generations have ran up our credit cards before we got a legitimate chance to use them. Now it's our turn to sort through the mess, and literally create a whole new world out of our grandfather's corpses
Welcome to @)@), oops I mean 2002, uh oh 2020. There we go. Let's start off with the beginning of the year. This year started off super strong. The economy was blazing hot. It was a election year, so people had hope for the future of this country. I think Bernie was still a candidate for president. I was 21, so I was able to go to freakish pleasures for the first time. I danced with a girl for the first time. I still had my job as a waiter/bartender in Downtown Detroit. People still actually communicated fairly easily.
Shit, was that this year? Was that really 2020? It seems like you need a telescope to find the pre-March world. The Pre-COVID-19 world. Out of nowhere, the world flipped itself on its head. We were flirting with being a global planet pre-2020, but this virus has showed us how capable we are of being a global planet. And what countries actually give a fuck about their people, and not.
Take South Korea for instance. When the virus first started spreading, they lined up their citizens like the sheep that they are, and then they tested them in droves. I mean, within 2 weeks they probably had half of the country tested, and the other half under quarantine. I'm exaggerating here, but the Koreans were hella efficient in responding to a public health crisis. You know, I've always wanted to visit Seoul too, I personally think that Koreans are the cutest brand of people on this shithole of a planet, when you take the average of course. There are always exceptions, but I have yet to see an ugly Easterner yet. Ugly is subjective anyways, nobody is really ugly, I am just biologically unattracted to certain people tis all. But people in the eastern hemisphere are good to go in my book
Uhem, then you have us. It took us till like July to get a proper testing rhythm going, and even then the accuracy of the tests were dogshit. Plus I have heard on several occasions that people got the flu afterwards. Hmmmm. Very Interesting. Then there was the fact that testing isn't mandatory in the United States, but wearing a mask is. It seems counterintuitive to me. Its not like air droplets are tiny enough to go through the average masks that people are wearing. Its not like people have good habits of washing their hands. We're Americans, only Third World countries have to do stuff like washing their hands. It's not like people can actually implement social distancing policies effectively. What are you going to say to someone who is walking into your business (that is slowly but surely dying because nobody goes outside anymore) to patronize it? Are you going to pull out a measuring stick, and say "I know six feet, my cousin's six feet, and you don't look like my cousin right now". People can barely count in this country do you really think that they are going to follow something as arbitrary and subjective as a six feet social distancing policy? What if you miraculously get busy? Are you going to have people stand outside like its the St. Andrew? Its a joke.
Speaking of St. Andrews, RIP live concerts. I was going to see King Krule and The Chats in April, and Stereolab in May in Chicago. I could've lost my virginity at one of those shows. But no. Boomers had to find a way to fuck up yet and still another generation. It wasn't like Vietnam and Communism wasn't enough of a tax on us already. They had to mess up another four generations on their way out the door huh? I mean, it wasn't their fault, but when historians look back on the history of America, its gonna read like this: "Baby Boomers were the richest generation in American History, and they made everyone pay the price" Hire me BBC gosh darnit!
So no live shows means no subsistence for musicians, whose only possibility of making a living in the industry was to either sellout for music licensing and make shitty sitcom music, or to make real art, gather a fanbase, go on tour, and make some type of profit off of your talents. But now, we must bow down to the streaming labels. ALL HAIL SPOTIFY! Fuck spotify honestly. Fuck apple music too. Tidal is alright. They pay the most out of everybody and they are partially black owned. But even still its like an extra .045 a cent per stream.
Honestly, Bandcamp is where it is at. They actually have a "hey I worked hard on this piece of art. Pay here so I can make better pieces of art" button. Spotify is for podcasts people. Their head dick in charge had the nerve. The gall. The audacity. The gumption. To say that music timelines should be sped up to match consumer's tiny little attention spans, so that he can have more content to put ads on in which the artist receives no direct compensation for. Fuck spotify, honestly. I've been rocking with the youtube rabbit hole recently. Fucking with good quality music, such as 70s Zamrock (ur welcome), and Nujabes (2bl welcome). Not some shitty 1000 gecs, or a travisscott meal. Honestly, consumerism is gross. We need to bring back the bourgeoisie. That name is impossible to spell by the way. At least when Mozart was kicking it, he got patronized and his dick sucked for being a musician. Nowadays, the closing act is lucky enough to get a drink ticket.
Funny aside, when I was the lead guitarist for Olive, my last showed that I ever played was at The Shelter. Yes The Shelter, the underground facility right underneath St. Andrews Hall. They weren't very sheltering. They made us pay for parking in Downtown Detroit. They didn't hand out a single drink ticket. Their sound guy (as most sound guys) was a piece of shit. And I don't like to talk down on most people unless I absolutely have to. But yeah, they treated us like we were dogshit. I played on stage and the security lady told me that if I left out the door, then I couldn't get back in. What type of shit is that? Like really? I can see if it was a Pat Metheny concert or something, but like come on it was us, Legume, Brother Son, and some band from Alabama that I don't even remember.
So yeah, fuck capitalism. Fuck spotify. Fuck consumerism. Bandcamp is cool. COVID is bad. Not all bad, but most of these things need to be worked on.
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