Sunday, 7 August 2011

IF THEY WERE STILL ALIVE

The reality is that we are not promised anything on the planet, though we are given a limit in time to create something amazing that may outlive our own existence, our purpose is to most likely just share knowledge and experiences. We are faced with a few interesting moments, when death takes an artist, one of the most recent episodes called the "27 club", which refers to the loss of many genius musicians that where at the shocking age of 27. From Jimmy Hendrix to Kurt Cobane from Janis Joplin to Ms. Whinehouse the crisis to overcome the struggles of success with a drugs or a drinking is a band aid to their personal issues. The band aids of our time is sending the patient away to a 4 star resort to get them help from staff that pampers, perhaps cuddles their patients, in an institution that resembles a Fairmont Hotel rather than a Hospital. As momma Whinehouse cries out "don't by my daughters album as she will use the money for drugs!" We await the crash of the star which we admired and then slandered all in the same breathe. What if these artists, and those artists that also had a great impact on the world through the art of music, was timeless and everlasting? Recording songs has always been the archiving of our soul, like the paintings in an art gallery. With the breeze from our past we sail to our future and look to reflect no more! Only to hold our memories in our hands once again! Tupac to Biggie took the spirit of hip hop to the extreme and it has touched every generation til the day, Big Punisher to Old Dirty Bastard hmmm was absolutely inspiring and innovative enough to allow artists loose themselves...an angel like Aaliyah to the true life dialogue from the OG Nate Dogg...the wave of music moves forward, drowning in the system of 9 to 5 dependents that made dreamers and rebels.