Mini Thought - Is sex all there is in the music industry today? *Re-Upload*

(Written and published Jun 17, 2015)

As Blurred Lines comes on the radio for the umpteenth time I begin to think to myself: “is this all there is?”
Music today seems to be a restricted industry of songs limited to mindless sex to eternal love, with few without focus on these seemingly all important issues taking much hold within this world of endless streams of shallow sex based media and coitus fixated culture.
A mere glance at the charts would seem to support my worries. As I write this the top 20 singles containing 17 relationship based songs, varying vastly, from Carly Rae Jepsen’s really liking someone to the lyrics of Hey Mama discussing the “dirty rhythm” as they want it in the “worst way”.
Some may claim that music is about the art, but the fact that such songs as Blurred lines are doing so amazingly well continues to fuel this unrelenting torrent of generic similar trash – as the McDonalds of music – it is easy to churn out and even easier to consume without thought for quality or taste, clearly shown with this track from Thicke being the third highest selling singles of this millennium.
However, one could never deny there is enjoyment to be found in songs of love and sex, there are some truly great songs of this now all encompassing genre; Pulp’s “Common People” was both a protest of the class system and an amusing little romantic tale; “Whole Wide World” by Wreckless Eric, managing to be heart-warming yet feel original in its styling.
The over sexualised packaging that today’s music comes in seems to be taking an ever increasing hold on today’s society, the ever decreasing amount of clothing employed in today’s music videos being often seen as necessary to sell, yet think back to the then ground breaking extravaganza employed by Queen in their eternal success of Bohemian Rhapsody, despite the lack of sexual content it was mind-blowingly successful, their amazing music combined with the artistic visual being paramount to their legendary status.
So next time you tune in and listen to the latest heart throbbing sensation, take a minute and think about whether you are bored of hearing the same ideas over and over again, or whether you think music should be exploring more areas, like the classic Bohemian Rhapsody, and remember that music should be about quality and not rhythmic beats to club and gyrate to.