Why iPod and MySpace Can Burn in Hell....

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November 20, 2006

Myspace has ruined the Internet like the iPod ruined music

…but first, let’s deal with that iPod fiasco.

Kids of today, let me tell you about something that we had many moons

ago. It may seem like a foreign concept, but please take your Ritalin

and try to follow along.

Once upon a time, there was this thing called a music album. It

came in various physical formats including vinyl records, compact discs

and tapes. A ‘band’ or ‘group’ would make a collection of songs and put

it on an ‘album.’ When you bought this album, you could listen to the

whole thing. While not albums were great in their entirety, you got to

listen to all the songs until you knew them all – the lengths, lyrics,

bridges, choruses, hooks. You listened to the album as the artist

intended, because some albums had some sort of progression or story to

tell. Some bands even made albums that the tracks flowed together,

creating a soundscape – a soundtrack to life. It was sometimes a

rollercoaster of emotions, and often times you couldn’t imagine a pause

in the music. It simply wouldn’t make sense. It’d be like fucking a

girl and then stopping every 3 and half minutes to go pee. You’d

probably disappoint that girl more than you already did.

Back then, you’d say “I’m a Pink Floyd fan. I love the Beatles, Wu-Tang, etc.”

You categorized your music by the artist. The songs you liked were on an album.

Eventually technology got to the point where you would pick which

songs you wanted to listen to, randomly and at any time. This seemed

like a great idea, right? Well, much like watching clips of The Sixth

Sense that start with “Oh yeah, I’m dead,” it just didn’t seem right.

You were now controlling something that you didn’t create. You made the

Mona Lisa an Asian girl. No racism intended, she was an ugly white

porch monkey.

Fast forward to the end of the world – the invention of the MP3.

All of a sudden, you had a collection of ‘songs’ and no longer a

collection of ‘music.’ Your friends came over to your house and you

bragged about the size of your hard drive while your Ikea wall cabinet

stay barren. Several rock stars overdosed on drugs picturing you doing

that.

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The devil wears white

When the iPod came out, music was doomed. 10000 songs, you say?

That’s funny. I can only hear one at a time. Kids wore it while walking

– to the moon, apparently. Why would you need more than 80 minutes of

music? Where are you walking? All of a sudden you got this impulse

‘shit, I gotta hear this one song…’ over and over again. Da Mystery of

Chessboxing was followed by My Sharona. You were now ‘diverse’ and

‘worldly.’ You had white headphones because you loved 10000 songs,

motherfucker. You're bitchin'.

You should all be ashamed of yourselves. You’ve destroyed the music

industry. I listen to The Dark Side of the Moon. You listen to “Time”

and “Money.” You’ve negated years of hard work and talent. Why should

anyone spend years making an album when you’re only going to buy one

song from iTunes for 99 cents? That’s the only song people are gonna

hear anyway. They’ll skip right to it. Just make it track 1, save them

some time. This had led to artists putting out shitty albums built

around a couple of songs that will sell for 99 cents.

Remember Michael Jackson’s Bad album? Almost every song was a hit

because people couldn’t pick a favorite song and kept requesting so

many on the radio. What a crazy idea. Buy the album, learn to like it,

keep listening. The album sold over 30 millions copies at about $12.

You do the math. A massively popular song will be downloaded a few

million times, at 99 cents. After that, the kids latch onto the next

artist and you’re outta luck. It sickens me how many people downloaded

“Feel Good Inc.” and didn’t get the whole album. You suckers missed the

pop album of the year. You’ll do it again this year with Stefy. I

promise.

Millions bought the Aqua album in the 90s after hearing Barbie Girl

on the radio. They popped in the CD – what’s this? Candyman is a great

song? So is this one? And this one? Wow, I’m pleasantly surprised. They

started requesting those other songs, and they became hits as well. The

band must have been overjoyed. They made “fans” and not just

“customers.” If I sound repetitive it's because I'm on random and you

opted for the 1GB model only.

Nowadays, people just download the singles because they “know” the

album is crap. Download 2 songs for 2 dollars rather than spend 12 on a

CD that must suck? Works for everyone except the artist. No one goes to

the concert. No one sings along with any other songs. They cannot

progress as an artist because they have no base. The artist then gives

up and ends up in sitcoms instead. You don’t notice or care because you

didn’t buy the album. Heaven forbid you missed out on gems that

could’ve been added to your life.

So fuck you, iPod, and your fucking random button. And all you emo

skater trash that want to be famous rockers – here’s a dollar. That’s

all you’ll make and it’s your fault. I’ll go buy ‘albums’ and become

fans of artists, not hard drives.

Which brings me to my main point after that short introduction:

I never thought that the Internet would become something that

pisses me off. I mean, there’s free porn, Wikipedia, and snopes.com. So

what went wrong? Myspace. Well, specifically YourSpace, since I would

never want to go there.

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Tying in with my original point, MySpace was invented for musicians

to have a centralized place to make pages about themselves. Sticking

feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken, and you are not an

artist. MySpace has destroyed the minds of the youth. It’s made them

have long-term memory that doesn’t last past a year. What the FUCK is

the appeal of MySpace? It’s just a page with pics of you and some shit

you wrote. What happened here? Put your iPod down and look at this

list. Tell me if you fail to understand along with me.

MySpace is just…

A Geocities site with less options.

Remember Geocities? No? That’s sad. How about these, then?

Angelfire

Yahoo!

Xenga

Livejournal

MSN Profiles

ICQ Profiles

Windows fucking notepad

You dumbass kids have discovered something invented 10 years ago –

and then it was better, and easier to use. I simply do not get what

happened here. Let’s look at Livejournal, which was the first step to

the end of the Internet.

Nowadays, it’s ‘cool’ to share your feelings. It’s cool to share

every moment of your life and discuss how many coolers you drank with

your ex-landlord on Wednesday, April 17th, at 8:32 PM while you were

“sad.” Back then, I’d have to crack into my girlfriend’s hotmail

account (I know your dog’s name, slut!) to see what she did. I loved

the pictures of other guys’ cocks in her inbox because she was hiding

it. Now all I have to do is go to ANY FUCKING WEBSITE and your fucking

lives will be all over them. I don’t WANT to hear about how much your

pussy smelled after 9:32 PM, Mountain Time, at 86.5% humidity while I’m

trying to download TV shows.

An example of 99.985% of the pictures you will find at MySpace sites

http://www.tommyv2.com/images/myspacedemo.jpg

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Witness my pain. I had a friend come over that I haven’t seen in a

long time. He asks me, “How’s your website doing? Did you write a new

blog?”

Blog? I write blogs? That’s funny, I thought they were articles.

Microsoft Word underlines blog BECAUSE IT’S FUCKING NUTS. I was going

to punch him in the mouth. I don’t tell you about my daily life and how

I feel because I’m not a fucking homo.

You remember Maddox? You remember how you loved to read his

“opinions”? Good luck finding them now, it’s hidden behind your 1300

pages of “OMG THE PARTY THIS WEEKEND WAS ROCKNNNNNNN!!!!!1111” at every

turn. You fucking kids have turned the Internet into a zoo. You can no

longer find an opinion, you now have 100 million kids’ every aspect of

their lives to wade through. I feel sorry for every writer in the world

– you now have 100 million more reasons to quit. Sometimes I get

depressed writing tommyv2.com knowing that it won’t get 1% of the hits

Joe Blow gets daily from his blog about his travels to Best Buy. He

can’t write, spell, describe or get creative – all he has to do is put

some picture taken by his $69-10-year-contract RAZR phone and he’s a

celebrity.

It won’t stop me though. I work my ass off to bring you

entertainment. I don’t write for you fucking

iPod-MySpace-Volkswagen-Apple-Spongebob-Subway crowd. I write for you

Star Wars Arrested Development Fight Club KFC crowd. And I love you for

being fans. I write for those smart enough to understand and appreciate

the work that goes into being consistent and entertaining.

So fuck all you kids, I want all of you to burn in hell. If you’re

one of those fuckers, please stop reading my site and go blog your

uncle’s dick.

MySpace is just another fucking fad and will soon be as popular as having correct spelling and personal hygiene.
 
One thing I have to say to that guy is at least more people are actually BUYING the music and not just dling. I myself, still DL "illegally", and buy albums that "no one buys". That guy is fucking critical as shit.
 
I dunno about the Ipod one. I do still listen to albums using iTunes. It's not that big of a deal. But I definetly agree with the Myspace one. I don't have one and I never will
 
i couldn't agree with this guy more. i absolutely despise myspace, and think that it is a complete waste of time and space. why do these kids think that people care about what they do or what they look like? they need to know that they're insignificant and nothing but shit.

and i agree about ipods and itunes. i have a creative mp3 player, but i go out and buy entire albums and copy them to my creative. i don't listen to one song from each album, i listen to the whole damn thing. i have an mp3 player so that i don't need to carry CDs everywhere, and i have it is a backup in case my computer ever blows up. kids are so fucking stupid.
 
what a rant indeed, i am jsut done with the hole ipod thing, and now all that i can say as a defense is that if i like an artist, i buy the album, and i rarely listen to "shuffled music"...

but again, that is just me and i can understand your point...though, please dont stereotype every ipod owner
 
This guy is a clueless asshole. That whole rant is nothing but "FUCK YOU KIDS WITH YOUR CHANGE AND ATTEMPTS AT EXPRESSION! I DO THINGS THE OLD WAY WHICH IS BETTER BECAUSE I DO THEM AND I'M BETTER THAN YOU AND NOT GAY LIKE YOU ARE YOU HOMOS! GNAAA!" There are some legitimate complaints in there, but there are some very good things that he's completely missing. He's right about people losing the art of a well-put-together album, but most of the kids who listen to single songs would be the ones listening to the radio. People who would appreciate full albums then usually appreciate the full albums now. He doesn't address the fact that the internet gives people a much broader taste of the music that's out there. Something his albums would never be able to do. He also misses the new art of mixing songs. Now anyone can create their own soundscape or story in their own creative way, instead of taking whatever the artists gives you.

For Myspace/blogging:

People should write about whatever they want. If they want to write about their trip to Best Buy or their feelings, they should go for it. It's not Myspace's fault that they aren't creative and suck at spelling and grammar. This guy doesn't have to read it, chances are it wasn't written for him. It's sad that he finds joy in critiquing kid's shitty writing, then writing his own shitty article saying, "Heh, stupid homo kids and their homo feelings. I'm not a homo! Look how masculine I am by crushing their attempts at creativity!"

It's hilarious that this guy can't find Maddox anymore because, "The damn kids are clogging the internet tubes! I can't find my way!"
 
kind of aggree, like with Jack Johnson. He has so many amazing songs, but people only listen to his singles. I have like only full albums on my MP3 player. If you listen to some bruce springsteen albums he blends song mood into another song mood, like that crazy movie fantasia.
 
solid argument and article for sure. i laughed at the last pic, and the statement underneath it is so true
 
you should know that ipods also give the option of listening to a full album, and you can also choose whether or not you want songs shuffled or not. let people do what they want, dont be a neglejant(sp) asshole
 
it is true tho. when " what you know" by T.I came out i liked the song, then i downloaded his album of some site and a liked every song. Fuck that im not going to pay for anything and im still listeing to my ipod, im just saying that some of what he says is true.
 
myspace is soo fucking gay and i agree with him in every aspect there....however, artists still make a LOT of money from doing NOT a lot of shit, they put a lot into the album sure...but why the fuck do the god damn "dem franchise boyz" put out 1 shit song that all the queers dance to and they make a billion dollars, i saw them on cribs obviously. why should i give a fuck if 50 cent cant buy 5 more houses and a fucking private jet....there is no reason for a lot of the rich people in the world to be rich...i could write "its peanut butter jelly time" or whatever the fuck that shit was but im no goddamn millionare.
 
Agreed. Musicians are getting worse and worse today. They'll give a record deal to any pretty face that has a family member in the recording industry. Personlly a lot of the garbage music that is put out today doesn't deserve to be in an album. Popular music is changing. People today want to here music that is "new" and "fresh" (if you want to call it that). I really think artists today put out albums with only 2-3 decent songs on it, and the rest is just garbage filler shit.

I'll admit that I do like a lot of popular music that comes out. I like being able to go down the hall and ask other dudes if they've heard that new Akon shit. It's fun music, we play it when we party. Girls like it. etc.

Music is exactly what you want it to be. I don't need to some whiney bitch to tell me what kind music i should listen to or how to listen to it. I'll be quite honost I hate country music with a burning passion. But if someone likes that kind of music, I'm not going to bitch to them about it. It's their persoanl preference.

Times change. Get over it.
 
So is the radio the end of music? Cause they usually only play one of the artists songs at a time. They don't normally play whole albums "as the artist intended". What a douchebag. Myspace is very different from geocities. Geocities was a webhost with a pretty easy to use website creator. Myspace is a social networking website. They're different. Windows notepad isn't a website at all. Its a program. This guy is ridiculous.
 
most of you can't relate to this guy because you're all far to young to even know what he is talking about from the good old days. i don't hold it against you, i just wish you were old enough to understand this. artists have to allow apple to put their music on itunes because they are pretty much forced to if they want to make any profit. itunes is the staple in the online music purchasing business, if they don't have their songs there then they can't expect to make much from their album sales, because first no one buys albums anymore for precisely this reason and secondly, people download.

so really, where is the incentive to produce a good album. why does the jay-z kingdom come album only have two good songs on it? its because the album is built around those two songs. you're only gonna pay for those two songs and the rest is just filler. thats the problem. and like he said many bands have a soundscape to their albums, ie. the mars volta. only downloading roulette dares and the apparatus must be unearth you don't see the album for the musical story of his friend overdosing because you only got clips of the album. there was a time where you couldn't even rewind music, it was only fastforward, remember the 8-track? no of course not. you had to listen to the whole thing or be a genius to know when to stop it at the right moment. even the red hot chili peppers album stadium arcadium. its a fucking two disk album but people only download two songs those two disks. dani california and snow, so whats the fucking point for them to work that much harder to create two disks. you can all expect that is the last 2 disk album for rhcp you are ever going to see. if you don't fucking believe me type in stadium arcadium into the itunes music store and see the popularity of those two songs in relation to the rest of the album. great. 2 dollars for those two songs. so if thats downloaded 2 million times rhcp gets 4 million. if you bought the album then rhcp would make 40 million. look at those margins, are you really going to argue that this guy doesn't know what he is talking about?

geocities was the same thing, it allowed your own webspace, it didn't offer the same structure as myspace, but it was still the same thing. what is your url for geocities? www.geocities.com/yourname what is the url for face book? www.facebook.com/yourname

if you could create a word document and add
and title the notepad as .html then its the same shit. of course you would know this if you went to your computer classes back in highschool. oh right, you're all still in highschool so you havn't had that class yet.

 
why would i pay money for an album if i could just download it for free. if the artist is truly good they will be fine and make plenty of money for themselves.

why not have 10000 songs in your pocket? what is wrong with that? what is wrong witrh having a shitload of videos in your pocket?

fuck your rant and fuck you
 
Dude I hate calling you out, but I'm going to have to.

#1 "most of you can't relate to this guy because you're all far to young to even know what he is talking about from the good old days."

...I'm going to assume you are 22-23 at the most. Feel free to correct me if you're like 24 of 25 or something. Thus still placing your birth in the golden 1 hit wonder era that was the 80's. Then it wasn't until the 90's that you were probably able to actually appreciate music. Let's run off some 90's bands: Better Than Ezra, Fastball, Gin Blossoms, Marcy Playground, Third Eye Blind, Nine Days, Lit, Live, Eagle Eye Cherry, Dog's Eye View, Smash Mouth ect... Clearly those bands are still around producing great "soundscape" music. And while a lot of rap was decent in the 90's most of them were too busy trying to rip on the other guys across the country. Dude shitty musicians existed long before iTunes. iTunes didn't cause it. iTunes was the solution to it. Nobody wants to buy a Better Than Ezra CD just to listen to "Desperately Wanting". I think it's great. iTunes punishes artists for making shitty music.

Now I will agree that there are some musical groups that due produce creative, quality music. But it is your job to then support those groups you want to here in their full effect. And I will gladly support them too]. Put their shiny circular object into my ancient music playing device.

You have to rememeber that servies like iTunes are also convenient. When someone wants to hear something they dont have, they dont want to get in a car and drive to Sam Goodie. They can simply log onto their computer and get it.

#2 You have it wrong. The population doesn't cater to the musician. The musician produces music that caters to the population (if he wants to be successful). I am all in favor of musicians making individualized music. It's great if you like getting with your buddies and playing your hearts out. But you can't expect to be liked by everyone and be extremely successful. Why should I change my listening preferences??? Who are you to tell me that the music I like and how I like to listen to it is wrong?

My roomate has been playing in a band since he was a sophomore in highschool. He was one of those guys that was all "core" and they played only what they wanted to play. They didn't want to be "sellouts" and play "corporate music". They tried their hardest to be individual artists. Well guess what. Few people actually liked their shit, so they changed. Now they sound a lot like yellowcard, and they're harder stuff is a little similar to Rush. They are playing show after show now, and they're recording a full length CD.

 
I didnt read the part about myspace but I think your opinion on iPods

may be the most close minded and selfcentered argument ever. You say

people no longer buy albums. not true. when was the last time you saw

a poor rapper. Im going to make the assumption that you also feel rap

has destoryed the music industry. Argue with me times change

accomplished artists are still doing well and will continue to do

well. Album sales may be down but, if you are good people will still

buy your paraphanlia and will go to see your shows and its not like

albums have completely stopped selling as well.

ipods have

given people the ability to listen to any type of music they want and

also more than one type. Obviously a few people liked the idea. So

whats wrong with not being just and aerosmith or just a pink floyd

person. So why have more than just 80 minutes of music? Well

sometimes when im skiing for more than 4 hours I dont want to hear the

same songs over and over and over. even if im not skiing I dont want

to hear the same thing over and over and over. and why are the ipods

so big its stupid? no its not. I like having my favorite songs on

there and as new music comes out that I like (guess what I actually

listen to albums and I know im not the only one.) I like to put it on

my ipod so I can listen to it later.

And another thing. Because of the massive amount of artists out there today it is hard to categorize your music by artist. There are some very good artists and there are some very bad artists. When people think of a specific genre of music they are still going to think of the accompished artist in that category that has done well.

So why dont you blame this on all the musicians trying to get there name out there? and what about the ones that just want their music to be heard? The ipod and the internet maybe the best thing that ever happened to them. It has given them an affordable medium in which to promote their music.

Some people enjoy listening to albums and trying to pick up on the artists emotions and listen to the story they are telling. And some people just like to have something that sounds good and is stimulating. We live in a post-modern world and people are constantly searching for the next stimuli. Deal with it.

You make it sound like everyone out there is just listening to the music because it sounds cool and they are to ignorant to understand the underlying meaning. Well I hate to break it to you but you are wrong. If anyone is ignorant I think it is you for creating this thread.

And your rebuttal to this argument better be something better than you are to young to understand or you just wouldn't know.

 
a true musician is an artist. artists make art for themselfs to express creativity and glorify human expression. if they make music just for sale and others they are not artist or musicians and do not deserve our respect
 
you are not looking at it from an economical point of view for the artist. why should they put the time and effort into creating an album when all the customer is going to do is listen to two songs from it. where is the incentive? you might as well just release a 2 song album because it doesn't really matter anyways, when people hear the name of your album they are just going to think of those two songs anyways.

the last time i saw a poor rapper was the one that didn't sell out. the ones that rapped about what they wanted to rap about. not what the people at the label told them to rap about. it is sad that today artists have to cater to the population and sing about what they think the general population wants to hear. i would have to guess that the artist feels like they are tied down creativley which doesn't allow them to explore the music that they want to do. but thats the business.

and why would i blame this on the musicians trying to get their name out? i don't really care what they do, its their choice to put their music on itunes or whatever. you seem to miss what my arguement is about. my arguement is with the itunes single song download function. i don't think i am being ignorant, i would rather call it looking at with an economical critique from the perspective of the artist.

and no i don't think rap killed the music industry, mtv did.

 
im young, yes. i cant really relate to what hes saying. but when you say that theres no incentive for artists to produce a good album, not one with 2 songs and the rest just filler, your wrong. people hear these songs, maybe buy the album, maybe download it. i know that if an artist makes a sick song, i look into their other shit. i like it, i go to concerts. bands do tours. to make money. if they make a shitty album, nobody will want to go to their shows, they will only make money for those 2 songs on itunes. plus the few people who actually buy the albums. i buy an album, upload it to my ipod. i know what your saying though, and it still makes me kinda mad that people who like the music dont support it properly. but what can you do?
 
that post pissed me off so much. the ipod had nothing to do with people only downloading one song. napster, and limewire and the likes are what lead to that. just because its popular to knock the ipod/itunes does not have a thing to do with it. At lest theyre paying for one song now instead of none.

as far as myspace goes, why are you pissed at them? they managed to create a product that people enjoyed using and are making a killing off of it. Geocities was not nearly as easy to use as myspace/facebook. anyone can sign up for those and have fun with it. sorry you think youre so superior becasue you know how to code a site and they dont.

and yes i had a geocities, and yes maddox was humorous, but its another generation doing another thing, thats all it is.

 
yeah..... ipod realy fucked things up... i go over to a party and there like 3 kids just sitting there lisint to there ipod... i have never had an a ipod or a myspace.. and yes there are a clusterfuckin the youth into a a " connected media isolation" if you get my drift
 
dude, whoever wrot that has a fucking sandy ass vagina. I read this book once, where Nancy Drew went to the beach and got sand in her shoes. Maybe that is how you got sand in your vagina??

Don't hate on the ipod, cause you can't tell me that u actually liked carrying around a fucking huge as walkman or cd player, which by the way could only play one album over and over agian.

What u r hating on is music downloading. Get that straight. I steal single song off the internet all the time, but if I like the single, I will actually go buy the entire cd.

By the way, pink floyd is like the only album tha u get a genuine experience from listening to the whole thing. Yeah ur posed to listen to the whole album cause it flows, but really, I can only listen to it like once a year cause its played out. U can't tell me that you will buy ad listen to the new Paris Hilton album cause that's the way its supposed to be listend to?????

FUCK MYSPAce. It is gay and for pussy ass emo bitch who should just cut themselves and cry in the dark.
 
i dunno i get pissed at shit when some fat fuck cuts infront of my on the slopes and almost takes out my whole family cause hes got ipod so fuckin loud he has no idea that there are other people.....

myspace... its just showing how shitty the human being is getting.. all we crave are words... words with no voice or soul i mean aim and text mssg ar bad enough.. but i have heclked at for "not: having a myspace or playing wow my hole life.. i mean newschoolers is in the same boat as myspace .. but at least people have some common idea here. i dunno i had a freind that was way to much about myspace and met chicks and fucked them and then got conned in to rasing a black baby... i mean.. myspace is bad.. like its the perfect place for chimos to pick up 12 year old girls... i know some cannot handle 5 minuts without it.. but its this false unifacation that myspace brings.. theis pesudo meeting ground... but its not.. its just more and more hyprocsy.. im sorry.. but myspace is killing the world..... got eat some shurbert
 
here is the deal: some artists really connect to people through their music. said people will still buy the album to put on their ipod.

kids still listen to albums. me and my friends do at least.

the ipod has simply shown what humans need: variety.

people listen to 10000 different songs because they want to. because a person isnt just into one band. they are into MANY. we are multi-faceted beings, and one album will not fulfill our needs.

and the thing about myspace... fuck that. myspace is what you make it. there are alot of opinions on myspace. and yes, there is alot of garbage, but whatever. there is alot of garbage in real life too.

if you are depending on the internet to fulfill your need for meaningful human interaction you are a pussy. if it bothers you that much, get into daylight and talk to real people.
 
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