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Have you ever noticed that music sucks nowadays? Same with art. Why is this? I think it’s because every successive generation of music is inspired by the previous one (that goes for art too). However, not everyone takes the time to really learn the basics. For example 70s rock is inspired by the blues and early metal is inspired by a kind of mixture of classical and rock. Then the next generation is inspired by the previous and so on and so on, until you’re left with some bullshit like blink 182, or all american rejects.

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Lately i’ve been noticing an overuse of a little voice synthesis software known as auto-tune.  The first time i had heard this was on a song by Cher.  It has since become completely ubiquitous in modern music.  Especially amongst people who can’t sing.  I’m looking at you Kanye.

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Obviously something has been going wrong with our nation for quite some time now.  We’ve gone from the top position in nearly every category to middle of the pack.  Things such as health care and education in the United States have steadily declined.  Why?  How did we, the lone remaining super power in the world, become such a mediocre nation in so many ways?

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