generation nothing

thast my new tag for the new 20 somethings and where the {censored} are they? in the 60's it was 20 yo providiing the sountrack to teh protest of the {censored}ed up situations in amerika. now is more {censored}ed up than ever but all i can tell is old bands takign the torch. from green day making their FIRST punk album [american idiot] to even of all people smashing pumpkins with their new one with songs like united states.

where are these 20yo douchebags and their outrage at this inept adminstration and the molestation of the consitiution?!? musicians uslaly played a part in providing the feul for the fire in soundtracks for the protesting life, but now they are vacant as this adminstration has broken every law and turned amerika into a wasteland of {censored}.

what the {censored} is going on?

i watched earthlive bull{censored} and it was all old people playing... are they still supposed to carry the torch of rebellion? its so sad for me to see that the invincible youth is nowhere to be found. basically sheep of the man when they should have more than enough ammunition for their music to feed the rebellion against all that is evil with the current adminstration.

im saddend by live earth today. im saddened by the youth today. bunch of {censored}ing sheep. they should be ashamed of themselves.

Oh it's out there, but no one wants to hear it. I recorded a very awesome grungey rock band on tuesday with a great vocalist who often has something to say about the state of the world in his lyrics. It's still there, but I guess perhaps in such an industrialised music scene it's not a safe investment for struggling labels where taking risks isn't part of the equation anymore.

yeah, but are they getting people riled up?

oh, and can you give me a link? i would love to hear it/

on another note, rage against hte machine got back together because of this... still music from the heyday of the 90's.... while i LOVE blasting RAGTM on election day, we need more than that.

They haven't put it up on myspace. I just recorded one song for them for a local TV appearance. Though I'm often recording the vocalists other projects. Maybe I can email it to you if you PM me? *shrugs*

in the 60's it was 20 yo providiing the sountrack to teh protest of the {censored}ed up situations in amerika. im saddend by live earth today. im saddened by the youth today. bunch of {censored}ing sheep. they should be ashamed of themselves.

The 'heroes' of the sixties put Reagan/Bush in power in 1980... and set the stage for all the atrocities that have happened since. Also, don't forget that they raised the youth of today... before retiring to their McMansions and spending the majority of their time on the golf course.

What? I'm tired. Anyone got any weed? I want to get {censored}ed up!

By the way that whole college thing everyone told me about when I was younger didn't work out.

I got something to say, but so does all the other 300,000 song writers here in Nashville. How many in LA, NY, Chicago, ATL, etc...

Besides, I'm busy trying to find a new girlfriend that meets Avril's standards.

that is true... the greatest irony of it all, hippies into yuppies who basically destroyed western civilization.

still, where did the youth of today go? are they so apathetic they just dont care anymore? if i was young and full of cum, i would be raising more hell than anyone of this current 20something generation.

They don't have the demographic weight that the baby boomers did in the 60s. That was a tidal wave of idealistic youth whose numbers and economic power could not be denied. That's not the situation now, even with the "echo boomers."

And yes, the "children of the 60s" are in many cases an embarrassment for selling out.

There are bills to pay, {censored} that.

Well the market is saturated... But that applies to anyone wanting to take up music now, and it's probably a lot harder to get in for older people.

The other statements don't make any sense at all.

Well hey, a lot more people died in Vietnam. I guess comparatively some think that this war hasn't gotten out of hand because the death toll simply hasn't gotten as high.

I think different..... I just don't get any joy out of political activism. A lot more of this demographic is independent and alienating with it's opinions, so you get a lot of people in this age bracket who don't want to protest and agree with the administration... Rather than a majority of the youth feeling one way.

I actually agree with that.

Times are different my friends. I`m what you would call a Generation X-er. For some reason we got the tag as slackers but not sure how. My wife and I have had to work up to 5 jobs at a time to have the same "luxuries" our folks provided us with 2 jobs. The record labels have also changed and its no longer about artist expressing themselves, labels want a sure thing and political music is not that. Yeah, I`m glad RATM is together again but the last time a band changed the political landscape, I think it lasted for the length of a song.

Twenty somethings these days, IMO are looking to get there act together in their careers and politics is some BS left to others. The cost of living is so high, there is seriously no time to "waste" on starting a revolution. Just my penny.

EB

Perhaps they're posting on the Political forum. Try looking there. Please.

Of course, there are quite a few people who were 20 year-olds in the 60s that had kids born in the 80s, but these are more the exception than the rule.

The 20 year-olds of the 60s raised kids who are now 40 years old. It is the 20 year-olds and 30 year-olds of the 80s that raised the 20 year-olds of today.

this isnt necessarily a political thread... although it seems so on the surface. music used to be rebellious towards "the man". that has disappeared and all they try to do is please the man while he mocks them on stage for whatever reason and they take it up the ass like good little sheep.

as for vietnam, there was a draft... i can understand that upping the ante. now they just privatized the army costing us billions of dollars that THE 20 SOMETHINGS WILL HAVE TO PAY FOR!!! they have stripped the bill of rights, molested the constitution, mocked the democratic process, committed treasonous acts, lied to the people... and thats just the government. how about big business raping and pillaging the world in their greed leaving a toxic wasteland THEY ARE GOING TO LIVE [DIE] IN?

what im saying is im noticing that it is still artists from Gen-X and up that are STILL trying to say something while these little bratty kids just sit with their thumbs up their asses.

i hear ya on that... im in the same bracket. although it seems opposite of our generation being called slackers, i kinda liked that at the time because a good number of us [at least that i knew] refused to buy into their yuppie bull{censored}. so maybe we were "slackers" because of that.

and thinking back, i knew more kids wheni was young where it was only ONE parent working, and they still had it better. there was a few articles about that a while back.

i havent however had a "real job" in many many years... but i have had to bust my ass to get paid and i never get to sit around and just collect a paycheck either, but i go crazy living in that corporate work enviroment where mediocrity is king.

Not much to add but your spot on. Instead of blaming everybody else, youth needs to stand up and say FU or trust me that gap between the ones in power and the common man is just going to get wider and wider. Hell we all need to stand up and say FU.

That's one good thing about politics in America if enough people care and vote the politician's will will jump through hoops to get the vote.

I do agree with you but does that that justify doing nothing? I could blame a lot of {censored} on the generation before me but at some point we need to take responsibility and stop blaming everybody else. I know a lot of people in their 40's and 50's that do not fit into the "Mcmansion" mold.

Alphajerk, here's the myspace of that band I was talking about, they just made it then haha.

http://www.myspace.com/facepollutionband

Brainwashing. The current culture you refer to is the most media saturated generation yet. They get 'em from birth and stamp their mind. More media = more brainwashing and propaganda. How many years have the nations of the world been engaging in espionage and subterfuge? Think about it.

i dont doubt it. they are the most apathetic sheepish mindless {censored}twits i have ever seen so far... i dare any of you in this age group to defy my thoughts of your lame ass generation.

I already have Atleast in regards to myself and some of those around me, though about most others I'll agree.