Come On Music Companies: Will You Never Learn?

               The Beatles. Queen. Michael Jackson Journey. Lady Gaga. Even Taylor Swift. Wondering what all of these artists have in common? Unlike most in today's music industry, they actually know how to write music that won't be forgotten. Music that will continued to be played, redone, and treasured for decades to come. Regardless of the incredibly vast amount of talent in our world, today's music industry is tainted with those who think that "Wake up in the morning feelin' like P' Ditty" is a great opening to a future epic song. Honestly? When we ask our history teachers why we are required to learn this pointless trivia, they respond with the classic: "so we can look back and learn not to make the mistakes of the past." Apparently they haven't picked up on this yet, but musicians: LEARN FROM THE PAST!
                Do you want to have a seriously epic song? I'm not talking about some song that's played on the radio for a few weeks, and people go through a short phase of liking. I'm talking about a song that is considered pure genius. One that will require the audience to think. One that takes dozens of listens to really appreciate its entirety. Songs that never go out of fashion. Songs that can sometimes even start a revolution. Look back on those that did these things. Think to the last time you screamed the lyrics to "Don't Stop Believing" with your friends. When you were pondering what the heck Queen is talking about in "Bohemian Rhapsody". How incredible you feel when Paul McCartney voice rises and rises until he's belting out "Better, better, better, better, BETTER, WAHHHH!" Fishes out phone and puts on the lighter app "Na, na, na, nananana!"" Can anything really compare to that? Even Justin Bieber's musical genius of "Baby, baby, baby, baby, ooh."
               If you want one a "Hey Jude", or a "Don't Stop Believing", you need one of two things. 1. Considerable rise and fall. As I see it, with most great songs, it starts slower and more toned down, and it escalates, until it reaches a point where the song is just about ready to blow you away; evident in "Hey Jude"'s scream fading into the na na na's. In "Bohemian Rhapsody" it's the same way, begins with this slow almost-ballad like thing, then it escalates into "Bezleehub has the devil put aside for me, for me, for me, for ME?!" The list goes on and on. 2. A storyline. A vast amount of my favorite songs of all time that I can never get sick of have a great story line to them. Not a "deep, look-for-the-meaning" type of thing, but like Taylor Swift's quest for her Romeo in "Love Story". Or the writing of the best song in the world in Tenacious D's "Tribute". And NO, Rebecca Black being super-duper excited for the weekend in "Friday" does not count.
             Don't put your talent to waste. Sing about what actually means something. If you're going to write a song, make it something that will be remembered. Don't get me wrong, I love the Justin Biebers of the world, but we need some music from this era that we can look back upon and feel proud that we had the privilege to live through that.