Music Defines Your Identity

Myspace in your space
Facebook is a new place
Dip divin’ socializin’
I’ll be out in cyber space
Google is my professor
Wikipedia checker
Checkin my account
Loggin in and loggin out
Baby I want it..
Now!

As The Black Eyed Peas clever band have noticed... we are the NOW generation. I am as much NOW as I can be. I am a material girl longing for endless zeros on my bank account. I am a facebook addict -  the 'being on-line' temptation seems  irresistible to me. I know what defines the person I am in the eyes of NOW GENERATION. NOW GENERATION is exposed to the perfect matches. How could Fergie and her lovely guys forget about the most essential part?
It's MUSIC.
We are the 'music-conscious' generation.

Let's assume that you're a trip-hop fan. You love Portishead, Hooverphonic, Massive Attack, Tricky, Lamb, etc. Your thoughts are pleasantly flowing while listening to this kind of music. You're the type of demanding listener. Focused. You receive the telephatic message from the artist. His vision in your mind. Yeah, that seems mystic.

And now. It's natural that you want to share this feeling. Lying on your bed, looking at the ceilling with this thrill in you chest when you find out again how much these lyrics reflect your life.Yeah, it's already under your skin.
So, you take your cute boyfriend's Ipod in your hand in order to check if he shares your passion.
Imagine your disilusionment when you encounter such ambitious masterpieces :

Don't worry. There is a way to avoid such unforgivable mistakes in the nearest future.
We are the NOW generation. We look for the perfect matches.

Just log in at www.last.fm -  the web site which creates your music profile by scrobbling the tunes that you have listened to on your PC and mp3player. Not only does this great tool specify your music taste but also suggests new artists that suit your taste. 

Finally, last.fm provides you with PERFECT MATCHES. You are now able to find your  'music soulmate' ! Isn't it terrific?
Music defines your identity.Don't you hesitate to share it!
Remember the old saying?

Never frown; you never know when someone's falling in love with your smile

Let's update it.
Scrobble your Itunes, you never know when someone's falling in love with the melodies in your head.

D.(investigatorka)

how to lose your brain in 5 steps

Sunday. In most cases it is a free-of-any-important-work day and an excellent excuse to lie down in front of a TV watching ‘some good stuff.’ If you expect (naively) to watch ‘some good stuff’ on MTV channel, then you will be not prepared (and therefore more prone to it) for the crap, that this music television is offering us (as the break between the ads). I’ll present you a short guide of the most idiotic, brainless, and, at the same time, the most popular shows appearing currently on MTV:

1) My Own… - To this program people come with mental disorders (in love with a famous singer) who pick their ideal ‘sweetheart’ (ideal - namely Justin Timberlake, Britney Spears, Doda, etc) from the bunch of unknown youngsters resembling him/her (in about 0,01%). What is really funny is that they absolutely believe that this Chinese boy  is almost like P. Diddy and this little chubby girl is a next Ciara. But (!) it is not that easy to pick one lover – the participants have to go through different competitions, show their videos (where they explain what is so special about them), and finally sing something. While the first parts are almost bearable, the last one is a rape for your ears and eyes. If you like going to extremes, this show is for you.

2) Date My Mom. – An ideal show for desperate singles who search for their new never lasting love by sending their mothers on the date instead of themselves.  It is a show for different nationalities and orientation, the only rule is: your mother has to be more crazy than you are. Actually, after watching one episode I got the impression that it was the mothers that were desperately looking for a new date, rather than their children. Anyway – in both cases the image of a child-mother relation got twisted – you can no longer tell who is more mature. 

3) A Shot At Love With Tila Tequila. – Tila Tequila (a famous individual of whom you have never heard before) is rich and ‘beautiful,’ and desperately looks for romantic love (she’s bisexual). So she invites (or I should rather say that MTV invites) a group of men and women to her house, and organizes competitions that would help her to pick the right man/woman. Every week the elimination takes place where she has to eliminate one girl and one boy (“Obviously, you are not in love with me!”) and where the rest is drinking tequila shots. And the prize for the winner is.. simply Tila Tequila. 

4) My Super Sweet Sixteen. – If your parents are wealthy and have no idea what to do with their money and golden credit cards (how many ponies can you simply have?) then call MTV and ask them to film your birthday party – preferably your Sweet Sixteen. Spend all you daddy’s cash on ponies, cars, pink dress, dresses for your friends, the most expensive hairdresser in the whole USA, and, most importantly, for your PARTY (with fairy tales, with Moulin Rouge motif, with go-go dancers, with famous singers and with the most expensive gifts ever). “My party is the best!” if not – you do not count in this world.

But the winner is..

5) Jersey Shore. – What is a recipe for the most famous TV show? Pick 4 girls and 4 boys and send them to the house in Jersey where they can party all the time, and document every day of their visit. After one season (3 months) of their stay you get as much spicy and controversial moments as you wish. So what you get is drinking, drinking, sex, partying, kissing, sex, drinking and so on. Sometimes they go to work, but it is the most boring stuff (not suitable for the MTV) and can spoil the whole show. In the end they have all became celebrities, guests on important parties and they earn money just because they can. For nothing.  

About Going Postal

Everyone knowns that MTV is no more music television. Everybody also claims that it feeds us stupid shows and went away from its' first mission. But did anybody interested what does MTV really lack? I know you didn't , so I did the work for you. Not so long time ago -- yesterday evening I sat down in front of TV, prepared a huge doze of patience and chips, took a pencil in my hand and prepared a short list of what makes me going postal :

1. The Journalism 
Unfortunately, today's MTV program does not base on any kind of journalism. I wonder when was the last time when I saw anybody who works in there. Maybe those people do not want to confess that this is their job? I really feel like somebody is sitting on the other side of the glass monitor and plays music that even he is not interested in. Some kind of robot. Anyway, MTV offers no more programs about music, no interviews or even artists plans. You will not get a chance to find out if your favorite band prepares new album, but you will definitely see them smoking joint during the party. This is not a journalism, this is bullshit.  Such type of "news" could be found in any bolivars magazine. But the big media should be based on the work of journalists -- looking for information, trying find everything the audience wants, preparing authorized information. There are even less and less shows where even presenters are needed. This television seems to become more and more impersonal. 

2. The only one perfect kind of music
MTV plays the only right kind of music – music for the masses. During two hours of watching video clips, I was not able to see anything that I wouldn’t had known before. Pop, electronic, rap (?!), pop, electronic, rap. It offers very  narrow range of music, though it claims to hit the youth target.
Someone on the other side seems to forget that there are more than three kinds of music. And MTV- as a channel offering the boarding of music horizons, should especially promote new music movements (for example Trip Hop). It is getting more and more closed and makes the potential viewer more and more bored.
 
3. Reality shows
I do not understand what is going on with this trend. Really. I suppose that such TV shows bring the solution for  people with problems, the psychoanalysis is out!. Examples: Are you looking for a friend? No problem, join Paris Hilton's My New BFF. No one wants to party with you? Jersey Shore!  Do you feel alone in live? A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila or –so greedy— A Shot at Love with the Ikki Twins.   Reality shows are just a waste of time and waste of words, so no comments. 


Results? Impersonality, the boredom and peeping are not a formula for a success. 
These are my really subjective feelings of what MTV lacks. Do you agree with me? Or maybe do you found something different? Write, I will gladly argue : )