My sort of music, made the way it should be

WHO remembers the days of Queen, Michael Jackson, Pink Floyd, Elton John and many more undoubted music greats who used to be the frontrunners of the music industry?

These legends provided the world with original hits and albums that most people (who had a decent taste in music) enjoyed.

Some of the songs these singers and bands provided are still being played today, on television and radio stations, and the nostalgia hits hard for some people as they remember the days when music was good.

Those were the days.

These bands and singers all had one thing in common — the use of those things, you know, those things that you play with your hands?

I forgot the name; can someone help me? Yes, instruments.

It’s been so long since a modern band has used them, I forgot the name.

I play an instrument, the drums.

In the good old days of music, basically the only way a tune or backing track was made was with instruments, and that’s how it should be today.

Bands like Queen, Pink Floyd and the Eagles used these instruments to create aural masterpieces.

The drums and bass were the backbone of the band, keeping everyone in time and setting the style and tempo of a song, like Superstition by Stevie Wonder, or Michael Jackson’s Billie Jean.

The guitarist is the lead of the stage with very technical riffs and solos like the infamous solos in Hotel California by the Eagles and Led Zeppelin’s Stairway to Heaven, and the keyboardist complements the band with subtle, yet very noticeable chords like the classic tune throughout The Final Countdown by Europe.

The arrangement of the sound of these instruments is the backing track for the very talented singers of the band like Freddie Mercury of Queen and Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits.

Please tell me you have all heard of these singers and bands?

Can I mention that these instruments take countless years of practice and performing to get as good as these bands?

Yet, with modern music, people are able to sit on their backsides behind a computer and try to replicate the sounds of instruments, using their fancy audio software.

Now this really ticks me off. It frustrates me that people can do this with absolutely zero instrumental skill, and get paid millions of dollars for the garbage.

Anyone who knows me well enough knows that I hate modern music, especially rap.

You could go through my phone’s music library and you wouldn’t find any rap, dubstep, techno doffdoff wickawicka rubbish.

Now rap takes the cake for my hatred of modern music.

Not only do the backing tracks of rap sound as clunky and clicky as a fridge off the side of a cliff, the actual rapping sounds are as processed and monotone as those cheese slices you can buy from the shop.

Not to mention their fantastic vocal range and accuracy that these fantastic artists are able to achieve with help from their good friend, auto tune.

Google’s definition of music is ‘‘vocal or instrumental sounds combined in such a way to produce beauty of form, harmony and expression of emotion’’.

Now did I hear in that definition the use of computers and audio making software?

No!

So why do these producers and artists class their work as ‘‘music’’ when it isn’t even defined as music.

Now, before I keep rambling on about how rappers have no vocal talent, how the backing tracks sound like fridges off the side of a cliff, how rap isn’t even music, how it takes no instrumental skill to create tracks, how they make millions of dollars off their rubbish and how music will never be the same as it used to be, I will be sitting here quite happily listening to my brass band pieces and operatic songs like The Prayer by Charlotte Church, while the rest of society listens to their ‘‘not music’’ just to remain uptodate and relevant.