if hadouken is the best anyone can come up with then we're fucked. they're the fucking friday night project of music, jesus christ. the jimmy carr of cutting edge. when did everything become so watered down? insipid versions of everything half decent, but with this meaningless spray on coat of originality? who the fuck are these kate nash, just jack, T pendajo white boy mockney fuckers? i swear drama schools have come up with some new scam for pushing fame hungry brats - get them a myspace account, get their picture taken, and call your mate daffy james who studied sports science and taught PE for a year but now works editing youthpush at iD, permanently fucked for ideas, with no interest in music but ALWAYS needing new faces to fill gaps in advertising. done deal.
it's all a scam, it always was, it's hardly like it matters, but for some reason it ought to. who cares if justice had 'help' writing their album, or if some other ed banger retards use premixed cds for their dj gigs. it's not like you give a shit. so what that diplo has been playing the same set for the past year - you didn't have to see it twice. it doesn't really matter that the nme letters page is written by nme journalists - you're not reading it for real discussion, or insight into anything that matters. it's just a good way of staying in touch with what's 6 music shockwaves indie shitting downloads hot. the fact that NME is owned by a company which publishes music is inconsequential, since in the pocket journalism and big business honk out at you from every neon spattered fucking page.
i hope you live in the provinces, and i hope you have some good friends you've known for a while, and that you start making music together and enjoy it. don't move to london just yet. don't let your band get caught up in egos, video commissions or personality press before you've written a decent song. christ knows it happens too much right now. a lot of stuff i really dislike probably had the chance to be great, if only the band had took a little time and put a little more thought into things. writing your album in the studio sucks. being told to scrap it and write a hit sucks. having no awareness of your responsibility to yourself, and to music, and to the people who're going to buy your record sucks. don't pass shit off on people as something you've worked hard on.
cause it comes down to this - making music and getting paid for it is a priviledge. it's what a fuck load of people dream of. if you have even the slightest bit of talent, if it's not just going to be a carpet bomb campaign of style articles, paid for spots on myspace and canny self-promotion - then you owe it to the world to get your shit together and do something decent. it can be fun and throwaway or it can be sincere and beautiful but don't just make dross cos there's enough of that already. see ya!
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