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Only every once in a while does a band come out with music that truly inspires people. Some good examples of such bands are The Who and Rush, with recent additions such as Weezer and Oasis. In an industry filled with people who have lost all sense of what good music is and whose only goals are to make money and become popular, it has become hard for bands such as those mentioned above to be noticed. Lately there has been a serious lack of quality in the music that has come out. In the early 90’s bands such as Weezer and Oasis set a positive image of rock. Now, however with bands such as Korn, Limp Bizkit, and Slipknot musical quality has seriously deteriorated. It is my goal to re ignite the passion that once fueled bands such as Rush and Oasis. Only by making music that truly inspires people, using that music to make people think, and using that music to become successful I can achieve this goal.

Making music that truly inspires people is a difficult and arduous task for many reasons. The musical world today is full of solo pop artists, so called “boy bands”, and people who wouldn’t know what good music was if you dropped it on their head (yes I’m talking about all of the Britney Spears, Backstreet Boys, and Puff Daddy’s out there). While these people are often referred, to as the “best musicians and bands of our time” they should not even get credit for their music. If they were real musicians and bands they would write all of their music themselves, everything from the lyrics to the actual music. Having someone else write your lyrics for you is the lowest that any musician can stoop. To write a truly inspirational and meaningful song it has to come from the heart. Songs today such as “Blue”, “All the Small Things”, and “Break Stuff” have such trite lyrics that anybody who hears them should be repulsed, however the masses continue to listen to them because they are “trendy.” If you want...