The Northern 📍

  Yesterday. All my troubles seemed so far away.      Sampling on songs is one of the greatest game-changers in all of music history. Seriously. When you sit and think about it, it’s absolutely mind-blowing.        I always remember an interview I once watched with Prince. He said that songs were now samples. And that samples, would soon be taken of samples, making songs nothing more than samples of samples of samples of songs. Try saying that one three-times fast, eh? Regardless- he was right. Music has now become nothing more than a repeat of a repeat of what somebody else once wrote. There’s no fighting change- only embracing it.      Honestly, it is what it is. I suppose one could argue that true talent is fading, and now music is simply a by-product of production within the machine. So be it. That is the future of the world. software running the entire show. I feel like if you can’t beat them, you might as well join them, eh? ...

Sometimes I feel like, I don’t have a partner. Sometimes I feel like, my only friend. Is the city I live in, the city of Angels. Lonely as I am- together, we cry.      What a song. What an album. What a band. The depth of music and lyrics are something which very few artists can come close to today. Which is astounding, if you sit back and look at it from a clear-eyed view. Art- Music, Movies, Books, etc.- Are meant to improve over time, as we as humans evolve. Yet, when we take a moment to sit back and look at the overall landscape of the arts environment we currently find ourselves in- it has not. In fact, I would argue that is has dropped in quality like nothing we have ever seen before. I would argue that the overall composition of music, cinema, books and all other forms of content, have become plagued by something destructive. Some sort of disease, which has put society into a strangle-hold. Something that is slowly gnawing away at the very fabric of all which we ho...