Music at its best...or worst?

A thought occurred to me as I was driving home thirty minutes past curfew flipping through the only three acceptable radio stations my town has: mainstream music has become a pandemic, and not in a good way. On two of the radio stations tht claim not to be "corporate" radio, the same song was playing. And to make it worse, the song was Lady Gaga's latest.

"Let's have some fun, this beat is sick. I wanna take a ride on your disco-stick."

First of all, is she (though that pronoun is debatable) allowed to make such an unveiled reference to a penis? I remember when 'mix your milk with my coco puffs" was extremely controversial. And now she can come in and say 'disco stick'?

But back to my original thought: "Are people really so musically brainwashed that the only thing they will listen to are radio stations that play the same songs on a loop?"

Why not through in some music that is actually played, not computer generated and digitally altered? For example, what ever happened to music that actually meant something.

Like the Beatles. They got it right: "All you need is love", "I wanna hold your hand", and "In my darkest hour, mother Mary, come to me, speaking words of wisdom, let it be."

Like Belle and Sebastian. They will never conform. I can always count on them to create powerful, poetic lyrics and couple them with chilling melodies. "Elope with me, Miss Private, and we'll sail around the world. I will be your Ferdinand and you my wayward girl. How many nights of talking in hotel rooms can you take? How many nights of limping around on pagan holidays?Oh, elope with me in private and we'll set something ablaze. A trail for the devil to erase." Beautiful.

Why can't the radio stations play more songs like those?