Am i the only one thinking, or wondering, what has happened to music? I am not a music expert by any means, but it is very important to me because of how deeply i connect with it. So its like a friend... and i'm worried.

Being a teenager and having not lived through the golden ages of music, there is no way for me fully understand what is going on. When i look back to the classic rock bands or people (Jimi Hendrix, The Mammas & The Papas, AC/DC, Santana, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Grateful Dead, CCR, Kiss, Alice Cooper, Ozzy Osbourne, Journey, Kansas, BOC, The Guess Who, etc....) or when i think of classic rap/hip-hop/motown(Grandmaster Flash, Run-DMC, Michael Jackson, LL Cool J, Coolio, Tupac Shakur, B-I-G, Dr. Dre, The Temptations, Stevie Wonder, Diana Ross, The Supremes, etc...), i feel bad for my generation's depravation of real music. Music that comes out these days only has one of the three components for great songs, if that.

A song needs 3 things to be cream of the crop:

1. A beat that people connect to and can dance to
2. guitar riffs and/or wicked shredding
3. a message you can connect with

Music these days seems to have only one of those three if they are lucky. Most songs just try to sound "preeety", and because of the lowered standards for music they get away with it. I do not know of many people in my generation who can name a real reason why they liked a song.

Music is heading downhill at an alarming rate. If you are someone over 30, or have knowledge of classic music, please..please.. go edjucate someone about real music about how it sounds and what it does. If you're under 30 and have no knowledge of classics, i plead to you... check out some of the artists i have listed; i promise if you have even a small hint of an ear for real music, they will not dissapoint.