Once upon a when corporate interests were playing catch up to a rapidly shifting evolving thing that they wanted in on so they could package, market and profit from its imagery. It had an edge, was appealing to the kids and carried the element of the subversive that was needed since rock was dead and nothing white could step in to fill the absence.
What we're looking at now is a hollowed out from within, zombie minstrel that is designed as a marketing and promotion vehicle of the lowest possible vibration to infect the impressionable via tales of self destruction and conspicuous consumption. The 90s weren't sunshine and rainbows. In many respects things are far better at the moment but the music itself has become insanely corrupted and two dimensional as that is the message they wish to send and, slowly but surely, people will resonate to this. New standards are being built. A different kind of unfeelingness that is the same one that separated us from the oldheads back when we were jits.
Same game, new players. Identical tricks but fresh eyes dont realize this...
Or maybe my old belt doesn't like these new onions and I should go find a cloud to yell at. It may be this but I'm quite sure what I said hits it on the head because the beast kills whatever it touches and people will line up to be eaten as they do whatever it says for their moment in the sun and chance to wield influence over those who feel as powerless as them.
