I wanna be a rockstar!

It's not hummable at all. But then most music today is not meant to be. It's really about grind and grunt and 'let it all hang out' in more ways than one.

But hear Nickleback's Rockstar - it's a cool number, actually something that one can listen to, understand, smile and say, 'cool, dude!' Very nice number. It's a tongue-in-cheek look at how rockstars live, how we (a lot of us, not all of us) aspire for that kind of lifestyle and how money and fame have a seedy underbelly.

For instance, here's a sample of the lyrics:
I'm gonna trade this life For fortune and fame
I'd even cut my hair And change my name'
Cause we all just wanna be big rockstars
Live in hilltop houses driving fifteen cars
The girls come easy and the drugs come cheap
We'll all stay skinny cause we just won't eat

So far removed from 'boys lying on the rock, looking at what I got - D.E.L.I.C.I.O.U.S.' or some ugh!stuff in the name of lyrics that some lady called Fergie is dishing out.

Anyway, music is changing like never before and melody is being re-defined as we write. Everytime I think of a Beatles number or a 'Bohemian Rhapsody' or even Tracy Chapman or Dido, I somehow feel so fuddy duddy - the kind that'd be better off at the Natural History Museum. Techno is so in and house and lounge and oh I don't know the gazillion genres that are ruling the airwaves seem so far removed from what I like. Imagine listening to Jus T or Justin Timberlake as he's better known as, in the morning at 7.30 am (do cut some slack here for a bit of exaggeration , give or take 15 mins ok?) shrieking 'Sexy Back'. God! Save my poor old Soul.

I'll take succour in Hootie & the Blowfish singing Hold My Hand:
With a little love, and some tenderness
We'll walk upon the water
We'll rise above this mess
With a little peace, and some harmony
We'll take the world together
We'll take 'em by the hand

Hold my hand
Want you to hold my hand
Hold my hand
I'll take you to the promised land
Hold my hand
Maybe we can't change the world
butI wanna love you the best that, the best that I can, yeah

(Hey, World Space's Voyager is playing a new song from Nickleback's latest album and the song's called, 'If everyone cared' - how apt).

And so the ferris wheel of music continues to go round and round and round and round.

Music anyone?