Column Chronicles: New pop-music movement ignored rules and purposes, part one

New pop-music movement ignored rules and purposes, part one

Frank Cotolo
August 15, 2024

Pop music movements do not usually change the way music is created but the greater community of existential pop music artists are threatening tradition. This year's all-of-a-sudden pop-music movement is called Ruin Rhyme And Reason (RRAR).

RRAR began in Belgium just after it was recognized in Berlin weeks after it was thought about in Vienna. Pop-musician Wilf Knap released a song that had no rhymes in its lyrics. "People are sick of rhymes," Wilf said.

The song is called WHIP ME OUT ONE. Some of the lyrics are:
I am defeated / look at my grin / laugh at my clothing / drink and get drunk until you cannot walk no more...

The song had huge sales and quickly it had many imitations. Yoseff Krugle released WHOOPS THERE GOES CORN with the opening lyric: What did you say / no one is on parade / bran muffins / colored chopsticks / all right...

"That was a big seller," Yoseff said, "and my next song will be more meaningless."

Yoseff released UGLY CRUTCHES and SO WHAT YOU'RE A FLIPPY RANGER the next week and millions were sold.

RRAR was catching on with the public but traditional songwriters are worried. "No more emotional lyrics? No more love songs?" said Wilma Wanna. "This movement will kill pop music and romance."

"Change scares people into bone plumbers," Yoseff said, "but they must elbow the rubber bands and execute random crickets."

A new band called THE UNDER BAKED GOODS surfaced and the RRAR audience increased tenfold. The group's album, titled TRUE OREGANO TURTLE SMELLS sold ten million copies. The title tune includes the lyrics: Sit and become an umbrella / eyeballs unite / rainbows blow / is that any way to perform a baseball / oregano / slash the wand / yip yip woopy loose manifold...

Wilma Wanna and others are defying the trend.

...to be continued.

Frank Cotolo can be found hosting the talk and interview programme Cotolo Chronicles. You can send him an e-mail at this address: frank@148.ca.