Sing Till Your Lungs Give Out

I am going to admit an embarrassing fact. In 2002 I was impressed by Avril Lavigne's album Complicated. I was in my punk swing and I thought the song "Sk8er Boi" was catchy and had some good guitar in it. Much like my opinion of "Bring me to life" by Evanescence. Avril soon found her way to MTV and my following of the band soon faded away, along with her talent. I truly struggled seeing a female vocalist make her way through the punk-pop/rock scene like Avril did, but I have found proof that I am wrong. Let's just hope this group doesn't kick the bucket after one album.

The band that impressed me is called Paramore. The lead vocalist's name is Hayley Williams and this band already has hope because they didn't name the band after her. So their album Riot! has me impressed. Their hit songs "Misery business" and "Cruchcrushcrush" are impressive to me. Take a look and listen.



The lead singer's vocal range is impressive and although I have not read her wikipedia page, I hear on live105's morning show that she is 19-years old. They preformed at Not So Silent Night and impressed most of the audience members who called in to discuss the highlights of the show. I can't say if the band will last, because these days it seems like no one hangs around for all that long. But if Paramore keeps making music like the tracks on Riot! then I feel that Paramore fans will be happy for quite a while, while most people will forget about Avril Lavigne and her Canadian ass.

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Are You F@#$ing Kidding Me?

I try to keep from swearing in public and also not using vulgar language when I write, but I have just got to vocalize how much I hate censored music or "clean" editions. When you buy something in iTunes that is edited for adult content it puts a little [clean] icon next to your music. For music that has adult lyrics the also put in a [explicit] next to the song. But no offense to Apple, but that is the type of thing that makes a teenager listen to it.

I just recently got Sugarcult's album "Lights Out" and I was disappointed to find out that it was the clean version. I am 21 years old. There is no reason for there even to be clean versions of music available for me to search for. I want to listen in the original form that it was created, in all its obscenity goodness.

I do my online music shopping by getting ideas from Pandora.com which is an online music sampling space. They don't let you hear songs again once you have heard them, or let you choose songs for that matter.The Idea behind Pandora is to make the user experience music by breaking it down by genre and style of the music you like. Oh yeah, and they don't censor their music. With the whole Sugarcult thing, I was more disappointed than Chris Rock when he bought a clean Jay-Z album. Then again, being able to watch vulgar stand-up comedy acts, make people laugh like this one, (Only Click If You are 18+ years old. Adult Content)



How hypocritical of me to even give you a warning.
So again, the whole concept of cleaning up music confuses me. Kids are not listening to music and then going out and yelling obscenities because they hear them in songs. This is my same argument for video games. Kids are not going out and killing people with guns because they learned how to shoot in a video game. The thing is, everything a kid is going to learn is from the family and school environment they grow up in. So why the hell are we still putting warning labels and making clean versions of music? And don't even think of leaving me a comment about the warning labels on cigarettes. People who smoke choose to smoke also choose to cash their lease on life in early.