The Irish Times<\/a>, Hammett recently went so far as calling the current state of pop music \u201ccrap.\u201d Below you can see how he got to that description, citing his concerns with the perfectionism and the like that modern technology has instilled in music at the cost of its soul:<\/p>\n\u201cI started off learning off records, just trying to develop my ear and learning songs and guitar solos from playing records over and over again. It\u2019s a monotonous, tedious process, especially with the records. But I learned so much. And all my friends were doing the same thing. We didn\u2019t have tablature, we didn\u2019t have music books. All we had was our ears and the albums. And it was a real challenge because if you got three different guitar players together and said, okay, play \u2018I\u2019m The One\u2018 on Van Halen\u2019s first album, all three guitar players would play it differently. There was some charm to that.\u201d<\/p>\n
He went on to say:<\/p>\n
\u201cI kind of lament those days when people had to really struggle to learn, because it\u2019s all in the struggle. And it\u2019s all in the determination and being inspired at the same time that forces you to come up with your own stuff and eventually your own sound and style. I just worry about, how things are so perfect these days, the musicianship. It\u2019s great that all these guitar players have all this vast knowledge of technique at their fingertips. I wonder where it\u2019s leading to.<\/p>\n
I hope it leads to a better quality of pop music, popular music, and just a better quality of songwriting. Because right now, songwriting and pop music is crap. I\u2019m hoping that all these great musicians who can teach themselves through the internet step up and put all that great learning and all that great inspiration into creating new stuff, new songs, the future of music, and at a higher standard than what it is now. Because I\u2019ll say it again, K-R-A-P. Crap. Sorry for all you pop fans out there.\u201d<\/p>\n
Swifties may want to put down their pitchforks for the time being however, as Hammett choosing to spell out crap with a k suggests that his ire may be mainly reserved for K-pop music, that or he is a particularly bad at spelling. Of course, unfortunately for Hammett, while his comment may shield him from further Swfitie retribution, K-pop also has an extremely large and passionate fanbase that won\u2019t take such an apparent slight lightly.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett set off some controversy this month when he was spotted wearing a shirt declaring…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":758915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75,92830,7874,7223],"class_list":["post-758914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-kirk-hammett","tag-metallica","tag-taylor-swift"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=758914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/758915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}