Sheep...

In this country the celebrities and the innovators are completely different. The people driving this country forward are condemned to the shadows and limelight seekers find a way to get to the front of the papers.

The glossy woman’s magazines are full or the same skimpy woman replicated over and over again with the same repeated news story. Amy Winehouse gets on the front page but is not credited for her fantastic voice and brilliant song writing, it’s due to her "live fast die young" lifestyle.

The majority of youth follow with this, most wearing the same clothes listening to the same music and liking the same activities trying to become the generic person you see on the front of these papers and magazines.

The level of music being produced in the current day has also dropped dramatically. Its getting to the point where the majority of the music in the charts are from "here now gone the next day" artists with songs that have no great lyrical content or depth. It's now cooler to get caught by the police than to learn how to play guitar or write a song.

These ways don’t look set to change anytime soon either, they are in fact getting worse. With a lot the music that does in fact have the potential to be legendary being shunned off to the "different people".

So how did this happen? It seems like it was an all off a sudden change from what it was like in the late 90’s, well as far as I can see. So we need to promote the opportunity for teenagers to be different than one another and maybe we can achieve the youth culture of what we once had.

Tommy Wilson

Arrogance In A Bag

Johnny Borell is arrogant? Yes. Liam Gallagher is arrogant? Again true, yet Gallagher continues to be hero worshiped by his fans and glorified by the media yet Borell and his band Razorlight and continually dismissed by the media just because he thinks he is great. It should come down to the music first.

Now i am not comparing Razorlight’s albums to the initial three Oasis albums, far from it, but the fact of the matter is that Razorlight has created one excellent and two decent albums which are arguably better than most of Oasis's recent outings.

NME gave Borell grief for being arrogant and a lot of the readers jumped on the bandwagon and started to hate him. Its as if NME decides some of the kids opinions.

The arrogance of the person is a part of the person who makes them who they are, so if Liam Gallagher was not arrogant he would be a different type of front man and Oasis would be a totally different band.

Oasis seem to constantly get away with releasing mediocre albums, they have loyal fans but i do think if their next album isn't something special they may start to lose the legendary status they worked so hard for at the start of their careers.

Its about time people stopped liking bands and people because they feel like that's what they are supposed to do and start listening to the music.

Tommy Wilson