Revolution

So, 'The Revolution'. Don't worry you haven't stumbled onto an extremist blog, I'm not calling for a political uprising or indeed any drastic action at all.
Instead my Revolution is centred around a typically adolescent topic. Music.
There are thousands and thousands of freaks, geeks and misfits out there and I have the great pleasure of being one. We don't fit the norm. We don't connect to the corporate produced music that smothers the charts day in day out. Instead we seek comfort with something entirely different. Our tastes span from indie, alternative, progressive, heavy, metal, punk, emo, anything you name it, yet we are all united by one common factor; emotion. With our music it doesn't matter how many columns the artist has had in the press, how revealing their outfit is, how white their teeth are or how much controversy they can cause to get more attention because this is all immaterial to music. Music is emotion. It has the ability to make you cry or make you euphoric. It's not the note that matters but the emotion being played out through it. When you hear Thom Yorke crying out that he doesn't belong here, or Matt Belamy declaring he's feeling good, Robert Smith promising he'll always love someone or Ian Curtis warning that love will tear us apart you feel that emotion. It reverberates within you and it is through this that you connect to the music and let it play through you.
We are the great unheard section of society. Sure we have various beacons of light that celebrate our music such as NME, Kerrang, MTV Two ect. but we still reside in the shadows.
For too long have we put up the same old processed beats in the charts with the odd flash of something great. For too long has our music been left unheard and unsung. If you like all the music in the charts then that's absolutely fine, whatever makes you happy, that's the only important thing. All I ask is that our music is celebrated as well.
This is my revolution. I will celebrate the music that goes uncelebrated. Music may be a business but lets make it an art again.
So yeah we may be creeps and we may be weirdos but we sure as hell do belong here and in the charts because where would music be without the true artists that we love?
Vive la révolution!