These Letters Are Better Than Real Letters

The letters to the magazine at Nylon Guys aren't actually letters.  They're more like thoughts or inquiries and almost more enjoyable to read.

Usually, letters to the editor are people praising or criticizing the last issue of the magazine.  They may be nice for the people who write and receive them, but for the most part they aren't that enjoyable to read.  They're certainly not what people look forward to in a magazine.  

The letters in Nylon Guys magazine are actually quite funny.  For instance, from the March 2013 issue, "Dear Nylon Guys, Do any companies make a cologne that smells like cash?" from Dylan Freedbum in New York or, "Dear Nylon Guys, Someone said the word 'swaggy' to me the other day — just checking in for a ruling on that one," from Charlie Knowles in New Orleans.

Picking up an issue of the magazine, I actually have a small desire to read what some of these people are going to say.

Harry Styles could be the bad guy in the next Hollywood blockbuster

Harry Styles was granted the honor of winning NME Magazine's Villain of the Year award at the annual NME Awards.

Styles winning the not-so-coveted award begs the question, how much of the British music reputation has he destroyed?  Well, with a room full of rock's legends and hottest up and comers, such as Ronnie Wood, Johnny Marr and Palma Violets, the only thing to do is to give Styles the title.

Great Britain has a great reputation when is comes to its musical exports.  Everyone from the Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd to Elton John and Elvis Costello.  Now Great Britain has to claim One Direction and their nefarious leader Harry Styles as well.

(These three together just doesn't look right)

They have infiltrated the British and now American airways with their pre-pubesant harmonizing and shallow beats.  They've brought back a genre of music most people wanted to stay in 90's...the boy band.  Their main fan base consists of pre-teen girls with braces and their parents for concert ticket money.  Music critics have never taken to these types of groups or they don't even bother reviewing them because the overarching opinion is that their music is worthless.

To say that these boys come from the same place as one the greatest rock bands ever (the Rolling Stones) is difficult.  Maybe NME did have it right.

For a rock and roll award, when other nominees in your category are the Prime Minister of England and the Korean guy who sings Gangnam Style, you know it can't be good.

Who knows, maybe Harry Styles can get a movie contract for a new film about him plotting to destroy the music industry as we know it.

Future should have no future

Rapper, Future, is a little bit too cocky and arrogant for not having gone mainstream yet.  In an article for Complex Magazine the rapper talks about his music and second studio album, Future Hendrix, with a little bit too much confidence.

In his interview with Lauren Nostro he says, "Sometimes I've got to dumb it (his music) down for the fans so they can understand it."  I am only one person, but I was tremendously put off by this comment.  Out of sheer curiosity of what else he would say I kept on reading.  I came to find that he managed to make an even more pompous statement, " I understand why people want to imitate the things I do. They're dope."  I could be wrong, but I'm not sure arrogance and insults are the best way to gain more fans.

I had never heard of Future or his music before so to me the comments were startling.  So, continuing my curiosity I looked up his music with hope for some comic relief in his mediocracy.  After listening to three or four songs, I ended my research.  His sound is certainly not anything new or too innovative to warrant imitations.  I can't say it was bad, but speaking like you're above people will only piss them off not get them to buy your new album.

...And Future Hendrix...come on, no one will ever good enough to call themselves that.