How Not To Blog ?

I'm convinced that my theory on why Google won't survive can also be applied to certain segments of society. Particularly, in explaining how the hell the lamest songs reach the top of the charts.

Unlike a lot of other people that claim they "like everything" when it comes to music, I actually mean it. I like jazz, blues, R&B, classical, a little reggae, rap, hip hop, some country, metal, a little punk, Latin, French, Polish, and Chinese music. I've got likes and dislikes in each. I think I know a good song when I hear it. Not much has changed in songs popular to each popular genre over the past few years. The best-selling pop songs today, for example, sound pretty much the same as did the popular songs from a few years ago.

There is, perhaps, no other explanation than that the songs touch a massive number of listeners at the right emotional angle. The songs elicit a useful emotional response for many/most listeners.

The same kinds of songs reach the top of the charts not because they're great, truly wonderful songs or so different than any other previous song. I think they are so popular because there are many people that are addicted to certain emotions that those songs are able to satisfy. The songs enduce the emotional response that a great number of listeners are actually addicted to. Thus, you will hear the same kind of song over and over again. The reason that the songs are so lame is because you've heard its like thousands of times before.

(If you're puzzled as to whether or not people can be addicted to certain emotional states, see the movie What the Bleep Do We Know?, or just pay closer attention to your own emotions once you have reasonably expanded your definition of what emotions are to include just about every variety of thought that you can imagine, to determine for yourself if I'm just talking out of my ass.)