I wish more music addressed our emotions directly.

Stupid music, the dreaming youth, and ways to overcome insanity.

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So much music these days is hypersexualized. Really, how can you explain songs like WAP any other way? That song is appallingly stupid and yet it won extreme notoriety for advancing pop music to a shocking new level of blatant sexual appeal. I’m here to say there is a more subtle work of deceit in the midst of this passing fashion.

Maybe pop singers and lyricists see a world that utterly fails to deliver any kind of honor or integrity. Maybe lyricists write these songs in response to the conditions of living in modern society. Maybe, deep down, these lyricists know that our world is broken and it’s only going to get worse.

Let me explain:

I know you don’t hear about it on the news, but the youth today are in serious trouble. They, like every generation before, want to make this world a peaceful, equitable, and honest place to live. Nevertheless, at every turn, they are shot down in their dreams for a better future. They see that every president we have is an idiot, that big corporations rule the world because they own the world, and that their parents, teachers, and bosses are as flawed or more flawed than themselves.