Artistic Ruins (353 words)

Now a days every teenage girl thinks they are a photographer. Thanks to instagram and other social media aps, I believe people are truly convinced that they are photographers by the clicking of their iphone, added with a nice instagram filter, and wala! There you have it. They’re artists…..right….? No.

            I think people forget that there is much much more to being a photographer than the click and posting on a smartphone. People forget that real photographers now a days still have to print their photos still must know all functions of a real camera, all which take years to master. It angers me thinking that people look at it as a simple hobby they could just pick up quick. It’s not. There are schools for it… SCHOOLS. DEGREES PEOPLE! You can major and minor in this stuff. Now, I understand that you can major and minor in a lot of things but, please I’m begging people to take it seriously.

            Photographers work years to get to certain points in their careers. I would hate to see teenage girls ruin yet another thing.

            Oh yeah, and another thing that girls have also ruined is writing. They automatically assume that their fashion or whatever it is blog is serious literature that should be taken serious when really it’s just them usually whining or reposting pictures from tumblr, which pisses me off to the maximum. Writing is the key to history and I’ll be so upset if another thing is ruined by ignorant people.

Trappin' ain't cool (456)

Trappin ain’t cool.

Ever since my friends have started listening to trap artists like chief keef and lil durk they’ve thought it was cool to act tough. I think they have forgotten where they live and grew up compared to these artists. Now I’m not saying my friends have had it easy while growing up at all. I’m just saying that they didn’t grow up to hearing gunshots while waking up. Chicago vs. Cedar Rapids, two very different places.

For the first time in history there has been more current killings in Chicago than in Iraq or Afghanistan combined. Crazy. I don’t think Cedar Rapids could even compare, if we tried, but why would we try? L-O-L, not funny.

I think the type of music is starting to reflection our generation. We’re growing up to be a nation of wanna be thugs and I think it ruining us. Boys are growing up to music that makes gun play and gang banging look like a game, when I feel like the only person who realizes it’s not at all.

Now I know that not all people who listen to trap music think like this and even sometimes I listen to it myself but, I think people should just be careful of how they interpret music. It’s an art form where people are expressing their feelings and what they’re going through, not a guide on how you should live your life. I think talk about guns and people in prison is supposed to be un appealing, not appealing.

The fall of Cuder (411)

The man on the moons seem to be the peak of Scott Mescudis career. Now, that might just be my opinion, but facts show that he has not received the ratings or approval, which have seriously declined since he took a break of rapping after the man on the moons.

            When he produced WZRD. Skeptics came about that he wasn’t going to be good anymore, but I didn’t listen. I kept believing that the next album would be better. And now here we are at satellite flight, the 3^rd album released after the third man on the moon and the music he is producing is still not as good & he’s selling very little.

            This all saddens me. Knowing your favorite rapper is no longer producing what he use to is really upsetting. The music I have depended on for years, (since 2009) is no longer creating itself. It’s stuck. And I don’t think anyone knows really what to do considering even cudi who’s supposed to be making the good music can’t fix it. Sad, sad, sad.

            Now I understand that after Cudi had his daughter Vaida, he stopped smoking to completely be able to pay attention to her, Understanding. But I think if he wants to get back to the music he was making before he might just need to start. Maybe not as much as he was before but at least when he is making the music just to see if that could possibly help, just an idea cud!

            Over all, I still will keep listening to the music he produces because of how much I respect him as an artist, and I think a lot of people would agree with me. It’s like keeping up with an old friend. You don’t have to listen to it every day, or constantly be around it, but you gotta check up on it every now and then.