The Playing Field Ain't Level...it's STUPID

I felt like checking if Anne McCue's great song "Stupid" was on GooTube in a nice semi-bootleg live performance. Yep. Sure was.

But my joy was short-lived. I noticed the number of "hits" it had gotten. Around a thousand? That's all?

You mean, a video of one of the BEST songs by an indie-artist with more than 10 years experience and lots of CDs available and lots of touring...is at the same level as THIS asshole?

A guy who isn't playing a song he wrote, but just opening up an Amazon cardboard packet to show off the new Roger Waters DVD he bought??

A fat tub of shit who barely has enough energy to wheeze, gets virtually the SAME thousand views for whispering breathless piffle about a DVD he bought? He's not even high enough on the food chain to rate a free promo copy!

What's this mean?

It seems the Internet doesn't make people famous, just less important. It's a weird form of Communism, isn't it, where people who have talent and skill are competing with inane clods. There are the same number of people searching for solid, creative work as there are dimwits admiring self-important Lords of the Flies; gnat-brains who show off to dung beetles.

No wonder "reality shows" have replaced creative programming. The average clod would rather "Keep Up" with Kardashians as watch a skillfully executed mystery show, or even some spontaneous wit on talk show.

People are so isolated and idiotic they can't visit a friend who bought the Roger Waters DVD and share the viewing experience? They need a smug egocentric porker showing it off with his piggy hands and giving his utterly worthless opinion? People tune in shit like THAT as often as they do free-thinking and creative indie artists??

A thousand views is actually above average for the Gootube hive. I don't want to name any names, but it's damn pathetic when a briny genius who made 3 Mercury albums gets the same hundred or so views via camcorder footage of him in a club, as an anonymous mouse-like obscure Irish twat does doing a cover of Taylor Swift in her girly bedroom.

Supply and Demand? FUCKED. Everybody's in show biz, everybody's a star? Yes on the first part, no on the second. The 21st Century is Shite? ABSOLUTELY.