by Daniel Creil

Created on: December 10, 2008

Soul, pop, funk, jazz: these are the styles that help John Myer to show his skills of a musician of soul and heart and express his thoughts and impressions of his and our common experiences.

His song "Waiting for the world to change" is like a letter of confession where he admits the lack of his and our power to change something in our society and the world, and how wrong ideals have the governing powers and how they use their power on us.

"It's not that we don't care, We just know that the fight ain't fair" says John Myer.

As he continues to sing in his soft and soulful voice, he discovers and opens more topics for a debate.

He speaks about the role of television and TV channels, and the information that they keep locked in shelves of their bureaus. And how do they decide which information they will give to us today and which tomorrow? How much is left behind the LCD display and left unsaid?

Knowing the information is a form of power. John Myer says:

"And when you trust your television, What you get is what you got, Cause when they own the information, oh- They can bend it all they want".

We spend a lot of our time, watching TV and surfing the web. But we rarely analyse the information that we get there. Is it truth what they just told? How important is this information? Why are they giving to me exactly this information and not the other one?

He touches such sensitive topic as politics:

Now we see everything that's going wrong

With the world and those who lead it

We just feel like we don't have the means

To rise above and beat it."

And what is our world in all this? What can we possibly do to make a change?

It's hard to beat the system

When we're standing at a distance" He says.

So there is nothing we can do. We are small everyday people, we are so many, and we are guided by the few who have the power, influence and the money. We keep our mouthes shut, because we know we will need food to eat tomorrow and we have taken a loan that has to be payed every month during the next 5-50 years. We can not afford to pay a lot of our power and attention in expressing our thoughts and dislikes from what is happening around. We think to ourselves: "Yes, that was a bad decision that they made" or "This TV episode is sucking out my brains, they should stop its broadcast!". But instead of doing something, we remain still. We have a passive perception of the world and a feeling of being weak and not important.

But: "One day our generation, Is gonna rule the population" says John Myer at the end of his song. It is like a promise or wish for changes to come, that it is not so far away, and whatever current power is trying to do in keeping us away from the power, it can not last forever and some day they will have to give us a chance to get up and start a better world. To clean our thoughts and dirty minds, to get out of the bed and stop being lazy! To do something! To have a power and use it. To be able to spend few hours every week in making our society better without fear to get laid-off and stay without a job and salary.

So wee keep on waiting for this day to come.

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