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Anyone that knows me knows I have a deep, burning hatred for modern pop music. Now it’s not just blind rage, mind you, I have legitimate reasons of why I think modern pop music is shallow, vapid trash selling itself off as music designed to appeal to the masses. A note for those reading this, I am NOT saying that this is the case for all popular music, I’m saying that modern electronic pop music on the Top 100’s is lame, and we all deserve better than that nonsense.With that out of the way, let me lay out my reasons for why I think modern pop is boring, lame, and shallow.LYRICAL CONTENT:Alright, in any genre you’re going to have nonsense, that’s inevitable. But what I’ve noticed is that modern pop tends to have more repetitive nonsense, and in some cases, nonsensical flow, nonsensical poetry, about nonsensical topics designed to sell.Don’t believe me?Let’s look at the chorus of the top song of 2018, currently at the top of the Billboard Top 100’s. Ariana Grande’s “Thank U, Next,”:“Thank you, next (Next)Thank you, next (Next)Thank you, nextI'm so fuckin' grateful for my exThank you, next (Next)Thank you, next (Next)Thank you, next (Next)I'm so fuckin'...”Literally any idiot with a basic sense of English, and can write basic poetry can come up with something better than this. Despite this, Ariana can actually sing really well, proving there’s only so much you can do to polish a turd.What makes this worse, however, is that Ariana Grande DID NOT write these lyrics. Yes, in all cases of modern pop, including the ones on the Top 100, this song had SIX producers. SIX people wrote this, and it’s so damn repetitive, and lazy that literally anyone else could have done better with the same tools.Let’s compare this to the lyrics in the chorus of the top metal song of 2018, which according to Loudwire, is Judas Priest’s “Lightning Strikes”:“Walking through fire, fate's in my handsWaiting for lightning to strikeMan on a wire, bearing the brandWaiting for lightning to strikeLightning to strike”While it certainly isn’t poetry of the likes that would make Edgar Allen Poe proud, it isn’t as repetitively nausea inducing as Ariana Grande’s song. The title of the song is repeated THREE times as compared to SIX times in one chorus. What’s more, the writing is more intelligent, showing more of a sense of flow, and just repetitive enough that it’s catchy, not annoying. Not only that, but the whole album Firepower was written by the BAND, and produced by TWO men. As we can see, they did FAR BETTER than the producers of the TOP SONG OF 2018!!Well, what about other examples? Well, let’s go to the bottom of the top 30. The 30th most popular song on the top 100’s is Cardi B’s “Money”:“Look, my bitches all bad, my n---as all realI ride on his dick, in some big tall heelsBig fat checks, big large billsFront, I'll flip like ten cartwheelsCold ass bitch, I give broads chillsTen different looks and my looks all killI kiss him in the mouth, I feel all grillsHe eat in the car, that's meals on wheels (Woo!)”What in the hell is THAT?! And that’s just the first verse! While she does have good rhyming, there’s no meaning to any of it.Now let’s compare THAT disgrace to the 30th most popular metal song of 2018, which is from what I can gather is Rivers of Nihil’s “Where Owls Know My Name”:“And then I wished you awayI lost those memoriesOf the days we weren'tForsaken. Why don't weJust relax our eyesAnd fall into a dreamLet it take my mindWhere owls know my nameAnd it gets colder every day”Again, the metal verse shows more intelligent writing. And what’s worse, Cardi B’s “Money” had four producers and three songwriters, whereas “Where Owls Know My Name” had TWO producers and the BAND wrote the song. Again, they did a much better job.Modern pop music is literally an example of the phrase, “too many cooks spoil the broth.” While the producers may be talented, and some of the songwriters for pop artists sure know how to write catchy hooks (I will freely admit that), too many hands in the production leads to generic, vapid, and unintelligent lyrics.And this is without mentioning the biggest reason why I believe pop music is shallow.MUSICIANSHIP:In any modern pop song these days, I can only name a handful of singers that actually sing without the aid of lip syncing and autotune. Ever hear some of the Top 100 singers WITHOUT auto-tune? I can only count like four singers of the top 100 that can actually sing really well, those being Ariana Grande (proof that she tries her best given the nonsense her producers keep giving her), Lady Gaga, Demi Lovato, and Adele. The rest sound wretched.Sure metal is full of wretched singers, but they make their voices work in the context of the music (Sleep’s a great example), they hire vocal coaches, they growl, or they work on it. Point is, while metal does have some awful singers sometimes, they aren’t trying to bullshit you into thinking they can sing.Seriously, this video shows some of the top pop singers right now without auto-tune, and I can only give a handful of great vocal performances here.Even if I give some of these pop artists their due credit, their vocals still don’t match the power of the likes of:Bruce Dickinson:Rob Halford:Ronnie James Dio (RIP):King Diamond:These are what I would consider as some of the best singers in heavy metal, and while King Diamond’s vocal technique is rather strange, remember what I said about strange vocal techniques in metal. He makes it work within the context of the music. And his vocal range is undeniable.All of these vocalists are achieving notes and a level of power that the pop singers just can’t hope to match.Well, that’s singing out of the way, let’s talk about the music itself.Ever heard ANY pop artist in the Top 100 that played a real instrument in their top songs, or better yet, HIRED professional session musicians to play real instruments? Not any of them as far as I can see. All the background music is is electronic music and sampled beats played on sampled drums that literally any idiot with a keyboard and a DAW (Digital Audio Workstation, software for recording and mixing) can write. I got some flak from my friends for this, but the MIXING process says nothing about the talent required to make electronic music. If you have the same equipment and a DAW, you too can write a hit, no instruments required!While metal still requires the instruments to be recorded and mixed by a professional, the engineers require the musicians to actually write the music, and PLAY IT on REAL instruments.Here’s Ariana Grande’s “Thank U, Next” without any vocals:There’s no talent required to make instrumentation like that. None whatsoever. While I do commend the engineer for their mixing skills, that’s the only good I can say about it.Let’s compare THAT, to the instrumentation of Iron Maiden’s song, “Powerslave”:Let’s see, real guitars recorded on real amps, good. A real bass player playing real bass phenomenally, and a real drummer, playing real drums.There’s no comparison here. Objectively real instruments are much more pleasing to the ear, at least for me.So now we can freely establish that pop music literally requires no talent to produce. All you need is a computer, mixing software, a microphone, an auto-tune machine or pitch correction software, sampled beats, and a lame, but somewhat catchy hook, and you too can write a top 100 hit.Let’s compare that to what it takes to produce a metal song:A computer, mixing software, microphones, a bass guitar, a guitar, real drums, musicians to play said instruments, a vocalist with decent technique, amplifiers so you can hear the aforementioned guitars, a DI box for both the bass guitar and the guitars (for reamping later, if that’s your thing), an interface with which the DAW can see the signal coming from the microphones, and an engineer that can record all of this and mix it.A LOT goes into the production of music, I won’t lie about it, but recording real instruments takes A LOT more effort on part of the musicians that are playing the instruments, and the engineers recording the musicians playing the instruments.With pop, anyone can do it. Playing real instruments is hard work, never mind the amount of effort to record said instruments.Since it’s hard work, and requires a fair bit of knowledge to do, it’s no wonder that pop musicians DON’T use real instruments nowadays. It gets in the way of the record company making its money.Funnily enough, it wasn’t always like this. Michael Jackson used to be the king of pop music. He could sing, was a great dancer, a great performer, and could write decent music. Rap wasn’t always like this either, I grew up during the Notorious BIG and Tupac days, where, granted, the rappers would sing about how rich they were, but they added in real topics that mattered into their flows. And when discussing the flows in those two rappers, let’s compare Notorious BIG’s “Things Done Changed” to the current song holding 30th place in the Top 100 Cardi B’s “Money”:“Things Done Changed” lyrics:“Remember back in the days when n---as had wavesCazal shades and corn braidsPitching pennies, honeys had the high-top jelliesShooting skelly, motherfuckers was all friendlyLounging at the barbecues, drinking brewsWith the neighborhood crews, hanging on the avenuesTurn your pages to 1993N---as is getting smoked, G, believe meTalk slick, you get your neck slit quick'Cause real street n---as ain't having that shitTotin' TECs for repSmoking blunts in the project hallwaysShooting dice all dayWaitin' for n---as to step up on some fighting shitWe get hype and shit and start lighting shitSo step away with your fist-fight waysMotherfucker, this ain't back in the daysBut you don't hear me thoughThings done changed”“Money”:“Look, my bitches all bad, my n---as all realI ride on his dick, in some big tall heelsBig fat checks, big large billsFront, I'll flip like ten cartwheelsCold ass bitch, I give broads chillsTen different looks and my looks all killI kiss him in the mouth, I feel all grillsHe eat in the car, that's meals on wheels (Woo!)”To really drive this point home, Biggie was 20 years old when he wrote “Things Done Changed.” That’s a testament to great talent and great songwriting.It’s clear that pop musicians cannot compare to music that actually had feeling and meant something. Now it’s all about how rich they are, how much sex they’re getting, and other nonsense topics, and they have reused these same tropes AD NAUSEAM. It’s getting old, it’s getting lame, and it sounds wretched.Pop music used to be fun to throw on at a party, rap music used to have some meaning, but it’s clear these two genres lost their way, and became a shell of what it used to be.Metal, on the other hand, I freely admit, does produce some nonsense that’s autotuned, played on sampled instruments, and sampled drums, that sounds retched and lame. Bands like Design the Skyline:And Asking Alexandria:These bands prove, that that lameness is starting to creep its way into metal. To fans of Asking Alexandria, if you think I’m lying that they are using pitch corrected vocals, you must be deaf, because it’s so blatantly obvious to hear. As metalheads, we shouldn’t allow garbage like this.But that aside, while there is garbage in modern metal, there’s also NUMEROUS examples of modern metal bands from all genres kicking ass and taking names, playing real instruments and giving off stellar performances. Bands likeKhemmis:Skeletonwitch:Holy Grail:Enforcer:Amon Amarth:Dark Funeral:Angra:And SO MANY others all show that metal still hasn’t lost its way, despite that bullshit starting to creep in. I’m sure there exists a pop artist trying their best to write catchy tunes but also trying do something unique and new, and playing music with passion and meaning. They likely exist, and existed before, so we know it can be done.I feel sad for pop music fans, they are being sold a shit sandwich and being told that they like it. You deserve better than that. Say no to this bullshit, demand BETTER performances from these artists. They’ve been selling you the same product for years now written by the same men, and sold as is.Don’t believe me? This article shows that all of your favorite modern pop hits were written by the same two men.Every song you love was written by the same two guysIt’s time to start saying no, and start demanding performers on par with pop music greats like Michael Jackson and Prince. Rap fans, it’s time to stop writing those vapid slant rhymes with no sense of rhythm or flow, and start demanding great rappers on the likes of Tupac and Notorious BIG, who had soul, passion, and KILLER flow and rhythm. You deserve better than what they’re selling to you.To all music fans, myself included, we should demand nothing less than excellence! Excellent performers, with exceptional talent in singing or instrumentation, writing exceptional songs. We buy the music they make, so I feel if we’re going to spend our hard earned money on a product, it should be worthy of our time.To summarize, here’s Glenn Fricker’s video on how the fans deserve better, and I agree wholeheartedly with him:THAT is why I find pop music so bland, so predictable, so devoid of any soul or taste that I can’t be bothered to waste my time with it. And what’s more, the songs at the top of the Top 100 are played EVERYWHERE. We are forced to listen to it when listening to the radio, shopping at a store, and at major sporting events.Metal, despite a few lame examples, has largely been devoid of that nonsense. We still have killer musicians playing with passion and soul, and giving real performances that can’t be played by a computer. We largely HATE unreal performances, and demand excellence from the bands we listened to, and it’s paid off, as Spotify showed that metal fans have among the highest loyalty to the genre.https://insights.spotify.com/us/2015/04/02/loyalest-music-fans-by-genre/We created a mutually beneficial relationship with the artists we enjoy. They write music we like and demand from them, and in turn, we support them by downloading their music, and buying real copies of the albums or some of their merchandise. If they release bullshit, we don’t buy that album, and we rightly call it out as not deserving of the badge of excellence. When they release killer albums, we buy it in several versions, buy merch based off that album, listen to it over and over, and when the band tours to promote it, we buy several tickets to see them live, and for some people, they’ll follow the artist across the country to see them live.As such, these artists are staying relevant FAR longer than any pop artist, with huge ravenous fan bases.Icons like Iron Maiden and Judas Priest have stayed relevant for close to 50 YEARS since they formed, and are still producing awesome music. That’s a testament to stellar songwriting and stellar musicianship.Pop music fans, it’s time you get some real musicians, it’s time to start demanding better, because you deserve better.Rap fans, what the hell happened?! What’s this mumble rap garbage with nonsense lyrics and no flow? It’s time to start demanding better, because you deserve better. Rap has always been something I appreciated because of how great they were with lyrics and flow. There are modern MC’s out there spittin’ fire, yet we have shallow, vapid shit like Lil Yachty selling millions?! Time to start saying no to this shit and start supporting MC’s that have killer lyrics, killer flow, and killer rhythm. I know it can be done, as modern MC’s like Tech N9ne, Jedi Mind Tricks, and Immortal Technique exist.Remember guys, MACHINES push sound, they don’t make music. PEOPLE make music, and that’s the way it should be.NOTE: I am not saying that all pop music is trash, far from it. There are some great pop artists that prove they are beyond the nonsense. What I’m saying is the crap we’ve been fed from the Top 100 modern pop artists is not deserving of the praise its getting. It’s lame, it’s weak, and we all deserve better.EDIT: Edited for sense of flow, and to give a shout out to rap fans. I personally know many fans of hip-hop that feel as I do about this.

For me, the undoubted best live Zappa albums are the ones from 1974 with the lineup that became known to fans as the “Roxy band” because it appeared on the live album Roxy and Elsewhere which was released contemporaneously instead of later on.The best representation of this band was on the album You Can’t Do That Onstage Anymore, Vol. 2: The Helsinki Concerts, which had a smaller band than the Roxy gigs but one that was tighter from having toured for months. One of the tunes from those Helsinki gigs, “Inca Roads,” first appeared in edited form on the brilliant 1975 studio album One Size Fits All.Why this band? It was the peak combination of staggering musical talent and individuality. The band included jazz keyboard great George Duke, versatile reed player and vocalist Napoleon Murphy Brock, tuned-percussion (vibes, marimba, tympani) virtuoso Ruth Underwood, drummer Chester Thompson (who would go on to be the touring drummer with Genesis), and others. Previous Zappa bands had talented musicians, but not at this level. Ruth Underwood was my particular favorite, a truly unique and underappreciated musician.I prefer the Helsinki concerts to the Roxy ones because they had more emphasis on the music and less on the jokes, banter, and “audience participation.” This may have been because Zappa felt that the Finnish audience didn’t understand English or some of the uniquely American cultural references that he’d use in the U.S.Subsequent Zappa bands also overflowed with monster musical talent, but this band was really allowed to express themselves while later bands were there more as musical robots to do Zappa’s bidding and play his difficult compositions at the fastest possible tempos. (Zappa eventually discovered digital sampling synthesizers like the Synclavier and stated that he preferred them because he didn’t have to bother with human musicians.)I prefer this band over the late 70s band that someone else mentioned with Terry Bozzio on drums, Adrian Belew on rhythm guitar and vocals, and Patrick O’Hearn on bass. Undoubtedly those are all fantastic musicians, and I agree that Zappa was a better guitar soloist by then. But others in that band started down the “technically superb musical robot” path of Zappa’s later bands; and I’m not a big fan of the poo-poo/wee-wee and sexist humor that began to take over during that period.

He would be incredibly weak, of course. Who would suggest such a massive nerf?what a cute smile. Why would you do this to him? The poor thingHashirama is the only important character with wood release, and not does he only have terrible morals and did nothing good for the story, he’s also weak.Think about it. How did Hashirama die with such a powerful healing factor, and such immense strength? Answer: He never had it.The “immense strength used to capture the tailed beasts” is propanganda spread by the Hidden Leaf to ensure control. All Hashirama did was simpluy ask the beasts to be a slave of humans, and they simply agreed! Dang, talk no jutsu sure is useful. Wasn’t so useful when Kakuzu 360 no scoped him with a tomahawk made out of paper money.Madara was a weakling too. He couldn’t even throw a stone to the other side of river!My daughter could do that, and she hasn’t even been born yet! Honestly, Madara and Hashirama are so wanked.bUt WoOd ReLeAsE iS pOwErFuLdo you see that? An american(who aren’t known for their physical fitness) 6 year old could break wood. What’s stopping someone with actual chakra?Wood is weak. Don’t let Hashirama wankers lie to you. If wood style’s most prominent user is a wanked weakling who’d be fodderized by 15 year old girl in Finland, someone who is actually strong and capable, like Kisame, has no need for such a useless ability. Honestly, the insult!Not only that, but Kisame’s incredibly strong water ability would just make the already incredibly weak wood style weaker!Evidently increasing the water content of wood by soaking wood samples in this way lowers the stiffness and strength of the wood. When dry timber has its water content increased to the levels found in green timber, the cell walls fill with water. This causes the cell walls to expand and a dimensional change occurs. Water’s presence dramatically softens the cell walls. The hydrogen bonds between different polymer chains in the crystalline cellulose microfibrils can break. Hydrogen bonds form with water instead, as it is a small, polar molecule and so can get in between the polymer chains. Stronger hydrogen bonds are formed between cellulose and water than between cellulose and cellulose, making hydrogen bonding with water more favourable. This softens the cellulose microfibrils as they are no longer so strongly bonded to each other, making it easier to untangle and hence stretch the fibres. This leads to a decrease in the stiffness of wood.As water is expanding the cell wall, there are also fewer cellulose microfibrils per unit area. Hence the strength of the wood decreases as, for a given applied stress, the load per fibre is greater. This makes the fibres more likely to break, leading to a crack in the wood sample, causing earlier sample failure.The graph below shows how the compressive strength of a sample of Scots pine changes as the water content increases. Under compression, there is a very marked weakening effect as water reduces the bonding between fibres, making cell walls easier to buckle.Source - Water's effect on the mechanical behaviour of wood.As you can see, Kisame’s capable water style would make the weak wood style even weaker! Instead of wasting his time for a stupid operation to inject some random old man cell’s who died years ago, he should just train his water style so he can match the strongest water style user of all time — Chojuro.Just look! The most talented Otsosuki of all time—Urashiki, was trapped by Chojuro. True power was shown here.Think about it. Why on the planet would the most talented Otsosuki be the weakest? No, Urashiki scales massively above the likes of Kaguya, Isshiki, and Momoshiki. They were never once considered talented, and are probably at the bottom of the Talented List of Albino Aliens, or TLAA.Chojuro, almost killed the top alien on the TLAA without tailed beasts or being the reincarnation of Ninja Jesus. Truly exceptional. Chojuro simply let himself get knocked out by Momo so Boruto could shine. What a nice guy. It’s a shame Boruto was such a disappointment when he did all those nice things for Boruto.If you can reach the top tiers with just water style and a weird looking sword, Kisame could’ve easily negged the entire shinobi alliance when he was revived. Sadly, Kisame’s DNA got eaten up by his own sharks so, sadly Kabuto didn’t let this happen.TL:DR? Kisame is not so weak that he depends on weakness to grow stronger like Fodderito and Foddara. He just deserved more time to practice his skills.