Fillers

I'm not in the mood for writing a proper post today. So feel free not to read it. I'm just going to talk about stuff and whatever. Like this band that I discovered a month or so ago called Streetlight Manifesto. They have a really great sound to their songs and their lyrics are simply stirring and refreshing. They're a ska punk group from New Jersey with a really prominent reggae feel to some of their songs. Their songs are pretty catchy and I like them a lot.

Last week I was walking down High Street during my lunch break and there was a proper crowd of people around the town hall where a man was singing Come Healing by Leonard Cohen, which is a favourite song and artist of my choir teacher. He had a microphone and stand set up and so many people had stopped their everyday lives to watch. It reminded me of youtube for some reason. Somehow he gathered all these people to him just like some videos go viral ridiculously quickly, when other buskers and singers scrape by with a few coins and a few interested viewers. I don't understand how this works. It feels like it's always the more professional looking and sounding of creators that get the huge amounts of viewers, even in real life. I just find it strange.

So apparently One Direction have a movie coming out or something? That's the news on Spotify. I seem to be relating everything to youtube these days because the first thing this made me think of was vlogging. I'm not a fan of One Direction's music and I always get a little tickle of irritation when I hear about celebrities releasing movies about their life. But it's not the fact that the musicians are sucking money out of their fans by providing product after product for them to buy. It's the fact that people continue to buy them. And I'm not innocent of this either. Well I am but if my favourite bands released films and everything I would want to see them too. I know I would, I'm just lucky enough, I guess, to like bands who don't drain their fans for everything they're worth. It saddens me though that we as people are so weak that we need idols to cling to and dream about. It doesn't feel like a healthy way to live our lives.

In conclusion: fuck. fuck fuck fuck. I honestly don't care anymore.