John Mayer Sucks

(Warning: The following is a rant. Reread Rule 4 from "Ground Rules")

I don't listen to much radio anymore; after years of banging my head against the wall from listening to truly moronic DJ's with routines straight out of the "having a case of the Mondays" script from Office Space and playlists that regularly insult the intelligence of even the most loyal "American Idol" viewer, I just couldn't do it anymore and respect myself in the morning. A lot of people have said that the iPod have contributed to the decrease in radio listeners because they can create their own playlists, and I know that's true for me.

Still, one of the shortcomings of my dependence on the iPod is that I do get somewhat cut off from the latest in music, what all of the cool kids are listening to. So when driving back to the house the other day, I turned on the radio in the car to the local Mix station. A catchy new tune came on by John Mayer, so I started to listen to the lyrics.

me and all my friends
we're all misunderstood
they say we stand for nothing and
there's no way we ever could
now we see everything that's going wrong
with the world and those who lead it
we just feel like we don't have the means
to rise above and beat it

so we keep waiting
waiting on the world to change

- Waitng For The World To Change, John Mayer

Jesus Christ, I thought Generation X was bad, but at least we invented the internet. When looking up the lyrics to this song, some college student actualy posted a comment that this was her generations "People Get Ready" by Curtis Mayfield, somehow confusing a genuine call to action during times of turmoil with some guy playing on his X-Box while waiting for war to end around him and peace to reign in the valley - Karl Rove isn't losing ANY sleep tonight.

SOME of us have even given up sex... SEX GOD DAMNIT!... to at least make an ATTEMPT to make the world a better place. In the meantime, there he is, plugging his freakin guitar into a goddamn $30,000 Volkswagon and singing songs about Jennifer Love Hewit's breasts, waiting... "just waiting"... waiting for the world to change. "Someday this generation, is going to rule the population." Uhh... not if you sit there WAITING asshole... possibly presented to you with the latest cardigan from the Gap. Not that I blame him on Jennifer Love Hewit; if I ever saw her breasts in person, I'd write a song about them too.

Not that I'm bitter.