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[Reid]

This is a short example essay I wrote for Writer's Craft class;

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Music is not as good as it used to be. The markey is hungry for authenticity but what we get instead is filler. It's like wanting a steak and settling for a scrappy fast food hamburger.
Rock may just be the most blatant offender of this. Starting out it captured the essence of the blues: music that put a finger right through you to touch the soul but at some point it lost the ability to do just that. The early rockabillies didn't quite capture the emotion but they started the ball rolling in the right direction. See, it was probably artists like the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, the Allman Brothers, Sly and the Family Stone and Cream who brought the essence right out and really made it happen.
Then came the late 70s and the 80s -- a veritable feudal age of quality pop music. Nirvana got us back but their only lasting legacy seems to be exactly what Kurt never wanted -- a bunch of clones trying to do everything like him except for the music important part; change music and make the real actually popular. Now, I'm not saying that there's always been a wasteland . . . it's just that we need to get a new savior of popular music. For every Britney, Christina, Hilary Duff and 50 Cent we take about ten steps backward. It looked like, for a little while, music in the mainstream would have rescued by hip-hop but goddam they even found a way to prepackage that and suck out it's soul.
Everyone's faking it now. Fake bands that try to capture real rock by shitty stage jumps. Fake souls singers that try to prove their legitamacy by ridiculously long and unnecessary notes. Fake rappers that see music as nothing more than a business with which they can not only aquire more wealth but also make generic songs about exactly that same topic so as to further increase it.
What we need to someone or a few people to give the music world's collevtive heads a shake. We need to remember why we'd want to listen to anything in the first place -- for enjoyment of the art.
Music videos are 95% mind control garbage or shameless self promotions and advertisments. What can breathe new life into all of this is nothing more than reality -- just that!
Forget the plastic guitar solos or the remix of the remix of an already sampled song.
Give us something genuine! No more pretense! The money and following of a band that does what it wants to, regardless of where it could fit into will be the Messiah of the oh-so expansive, hedonistic filth plain that fills our radios and televisions today!
That's it . . . . All the solution I can think of.
I'm finished with this for now to go listen to Primus.

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Copyright, etc to Reid McCarter
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It's not the greatest thing and I usually don't post here (because I'm scared of releasing stuff I spent a lot of time onto the Internet) but I thought this one might be good at least to warrant a bit of discussion in all of it's awkward, unedited glory.

[Piggle_humsy]

Well I'd grade this:
A+++++++++++++++++

Absolutley Spot On!!
It's like you took the words right outta my brain!
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It's like one of those speeches that goes down in history!

Piggle
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