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i've been noticing more and more that artists in the past ten years are writing more and more concept album's about the fall of the world.its everywhere in all forms of art painting,comics,music,movies.and the hard part is that i cant honestly disagree with what they have to say.i dont know, i may be paranoid but it sorta worries me

I wouldn't say they're writing about the fall of the world so much as they are expressing their distaste of the state of the world in general - it's definitely not a new thing for artists to take a political stance or to be dissatisfied with society, but it does seem to be an ever-increasing trend these days, especially among those who never usually expressed a strong opinion either way in their work.

Considering the current state of things, I'm not too surprised, but I do fear that artists have started using everyone else's agenda as a way to get their own stuff out there. This isn't new, either, but now it's become so commonplace that it's generally accepted.

To elaborate a bit: As much as I love the Smashing Pumpkins, I'm a little worried about their upcoming album, since it seems to be yet another "America is going down the tubes lolz war lolz global warming lolz Bush sux" thing. Although the few songs I have heard are surprisingly good, Corgan's previous albums were mostly about failed relationships and hating Jesus or something. Until he got with Zwan and wrote a bunch of happy songs about Jesus. Anyway, I'm glad he's doing something different (which will probably end up being completely awesome), but it's still weird that he's putting out a whole album dedicated to... well... this.

Yeah, I'm hoping that the album ends up sounding good, too, though most of what I've heard sounds like the stuff on Siamese Dream and the heavier stuff on Mellon Collie (which is probably my favorite next to Adore). I liked some of the songs on Machina, but most of them were pretty blah to me.

I think I totally de-railed this thread. Whoops. sweatdrop I would get back on topic, but I don't have anything else to say about it at this point!

I was excited about it, but then I saw that there would be different versions of the album released for different stores (one of the songs gets replaced with one of two (maybe three?) 'bonus' tracks) and, well... rolleyes Oh, Billy.

Its called current events:

Iraq War
Darfur Genocide
Global Warming
AIDs epidemic

ya know, all that horrible stuff we hear in the news.