I fucking hate Justin Beiber.

Just something I was thinking about there. I've doubtless said it before, I'm saying it now, and I'll doubtless say it again;

I loathe Justin Beiber, for he almost single-handedly sums up everything I despise about modern music. It's as simple and as straightforward as that.

Music should be about talented artists, sharing a gift, whom hold a genuine, unbridled passion for creating a wonderful, unique imprint on the world of music, whatever the genre; the money and fame that follows should be a side-effect, a just reward, for the talent and quality shown by singers and bands. Instead, music is now (well, I say now, but the trend started a few years ago, sadly) about nothing but marketability,; some fat, balding, music executive and doubtless absolute wanker saw Justin Bieber and thought "HOLY SHIT I CAN MAKE A FUCKTON OF MONEY IF I USE THIS KIDS FACE IN CONJUNCTION WITH AN (at best) MEDIOCRE, GENERIC POP SOUND! AWESOME! TIME TO GO SNORT COCAINE OFF A HOOKERS ASS!"

Having the right sort of 'look' is now more important than, y'know, things like ACTUALLY HAVING SO MUCH AS A GODDAMN SMIDGEON OF MUSICAL ABILITY.

Justin Beiber, sums up the modern trend for marketability over having any redeeming musical qualities whatsoever. Seriously. Words cannot express how much I despise most modern music.

While I'm at it, here's a handy little test for you; have a wee listen, if you dare, to this terrible, terrible song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kffacxfA7G4)

Awful. Just awful. The same tired, shitty "OOOOHHH BABY GIRL YOU HOLD MY HEART I LOVE YOU LET'S BE TOGETHER FOREVER!" type of bullshit that gets peddled, year after year, for no better reason than it sells, complete with a cameo by some, at best, 'washed up on the shore', and at worst, 'was never near the fucking beach in the first place', no-mark rapper. It's just garbage.

Now, here's the test; compare that absolute pile of fail of a song with this belter;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGAGOXEFVb0
Brilliant. Haunting vocals, and a lot of love, craft, and thought has clearly been put into it, rather than some wanky producer throwing together a train-wreck of a pop 'song' (and I use the term loosely, since it's more akin to auditory rape than music) to brutally violate everybodies ears with.

If you honestly, hand-on heart, preferred listening to that train-wreck of a Bieber song over the other video, then you have failed the test.

You can argue all you want about the different aesthetic merits that music holds, and say things akin to "But Scott, that's just, like, your opinion man, everybody likes different sounds."

In which case, go and take a running fuck to yourself would be my answer. It's not even so much the songs that Bieber shites out onto the radio every so often that bother me, its the whole "talent is secondary to look" principle behind the thing that angers me. And it's not just folk like Bieber that annoy me, either. Don't even get me fucking started on girl groups; the concept of throwing together a few pretty, but ultimately tone-deaf and almost invariably talentless, women together and then asking them to make music pisses me off something rotten.

I can't be bothered with this shit anymore, I'm off to play fitba manager methinks. While listening to some *REAL* music in the background. Teckle.