Every Time I Die Front Man Laments Over The Destruction Of The Music Scene

In a new blog on Alternative Press, Every Time I Die front man Keith Buckley talks about his feelings regarding the new crop of bands on this year’s Vans Warped Tour along with the new trend of swooping haircuts and neon tshirts:

It has given kids a focus, an place to assemble, an anthem and much like religion, it has given them a unifying symbol and convinced them that the more people “hate on it”, the more right they are in standing tall in the face of opposition. But what they don’t explain is that “outsiders” don’t hate a lot of music because they don’t understand it.

They hate it because they are smart and the music sucks.

The problem is that kids here at the Warped Tour don’t know that half of these “bands” play to an iPod track or that most “artists” don’t even write their own songs. They don’t realize that the singer of Never Shout Never is just a poor man’s Justin Bieber or that most of these “moshcore” bands that use 808’s to really BEEF UP their bass tone are the most recent manifestation of nu metal. Really guys? The dude from Milli Vanilli KILLED HIMSELF because he was so ashamed at being outed as a phony and yet on a daily basis I walk out into the crowd and hear autotuned vocals in a live setting. What the fuck has happened to us? Don’t we want more than this? Music once made me want to play music. Now there are days that it makes me want to never listen to it again.

The full blog can, and should, be read here.