The travesty of the music industry today

A few minutes ago, Stephen and myself were flipping between MTV and [V] to see what pathetic music has been unleashed upon the masses lately (mind you, I never pay attention to TV or radio anymore ever since I left that industry last year due to this very reason, among others).

After being apalled by terribly named new programmes that shall go unmentioned, a VERY familliar beat came on as a new video played on MTV...


I thought "That sounds like Manson's version of Tainted Love... but... it's not... it's...." and Stephen completed for me - "OMG IT'S DEPECHE MODE!!!!"




Only... it wasn't.



It was a bastardisation of one of the best songs in the world - Personal Jesus by one of my FAVOURITE BANDS EVER, DEPECHE MODE!


I hope you get many royalties


You see... it was JAMELIA with some shit song called "Beware of the Dog". Not only was she sampling a Depeche Mode song, she was sampling the cover version of it by Marilyn Manson!!!


Ask anyone, I am a fan of covers. I can even tolerate sampling of a few songs.


But hey, when you rip off the idea from another artist who had a big hit - what does that make you?



A DISGUSTING DUMBASS



Some of you may recall a certain Barbados beauty named Rihanna who came out with that catchy and sexy song S.O.S. sometime last year - sampling Tainted Love (the Soft Cell version mind you).


Yum



Surely you remember that sexy beat, those suggestive dance moves... all of which were blatantly copied in Jamelia's video!!!


Ew



How ironic that she ripped off the video style, the sampling of a popular 80's song, AND chose a song that was also covered by Marilyn Manson (as he covered Tainted Love a few years ago).


<3



*shakes head*



Words cannot express how apalled and disgusted I was - and for so many valid reasons.

1) Sampling a contemporary cover instead of the original, then ripping off the style of song and video from someone else.

2) Singing "Reach out and touch me" in replacement of "Reach out and touch faith" - can you say blasphemous? I swear, I threw up in my mouth. A LOT.

3) Being a pom - she loses by default with this.

To further "illustrate" why this is the poster child for how shocking the music industry is today, let me enlighten you suckers out there who might think "Wow that song is really funky" and also you other dumbasses who might be just a tad smarter and go "Nah that song is sampled - that's Personal Jesus by Marilyn Manson!"




TAKE A LOOK...




Exhibit A: S.O.S. by Rihanna







Exhibit B: Beware of the Dog by Jamelia







Exhibit C: Personal Jesus by Marilyn Manson








And for historical sake...




Tainted Love by Marilyn Manson





Personal Jesus by Depeche Mode










Conclusion

Yes, beware of the dog... the one named Jamelia.