Sucking Blood

Is it me? Am I just not feeling the vibe?
Or are Vampire Weekend the most over-rated band of all time?
I am hearing Paul Simon ripped off wholesale but then
Pop music is an exercise in barely concealed canabalism
I hear The Beatles, The Stones, The Kinks being
Rerecorded, repackaged, with 5.1 remastering
Are we living in an age of infinite musical regress?
I look at bands like Vampire Weekend and think: yes
When you are pandering to an amnesiac generation
Everything is new no matter how old it actually is
So music once the voice of a generation has become
A feedback loop of undifferentiated consumption
Sustaining the vampires at the top of the chain
For whom sucking blood is more than just a game.

© shaun patrick green 2011