With all the advances in modern music, it seems as if it’s all going down the tubes.

With each day that passes, musicians and bands are dumbing down their songs for one stupid reason: making hits.

Every song that is heard on the radio nowadays carries the same content of a certain category, whether it’s about sex, drugs, money and other idiotic references.

A major culprit of this crime is hip-hop.

Recently, a song was released in which the lyrics read, “When we drink, we do it right, sippin’ on some sizz-urp.” Now, for all you Rhodes scholars out there, can you figure out what “sizz-urp” is?

Simply put, it’s cough syrup.

Actually, it’s cough syrup, mixed with Sprite and Jolly Ranchers for flavor.

This song is called “Like a G6” and it was recorded in under two hours by Far East Movement and music producers, The Cataracts.

Two hours? That just goes to show how little some of these so-called artists put into their music.

Many Houston, Texas rappers are now encouraging the use of drinking this mixture for its main ingredient, which is codeine, for entertainment purposes.

To that, I say, “Really?”

What is most surprising is that Pimp C, a rapper from the group UGK who would rap about this in his songs, died from an accidental overdose of this drink.

That being said, why would anyone in his right mind even think about drinking cough syrup just because he can? You have to have been dropped on your head while living underneath the power lines as a kid!

And just when you think songs could not get any stupider, recent jailbird Lil’ Wayne has come up with an absolute musical masterpiece that would make Beethoven, Bach, Chopin, and Mendelsohn all green with envy: “Gonorrhea.”

Part of the chorus of this completely moronic song reads, “I don’t want your gonorrhea.” What in the blue hell does that even mean?

Now, don’t think that hip-hop is the only culprit of this heinous crime. Reggaeton is also a contributing factor to this epidemic of stupidity.

For the last few years, a song has been on the market by an artist by the name of El Chombo. The song, entitled, “Chacarron,” has absolutely no lyrics.

It is nothing more than three minutes of the artist mumbling incoherently until the chorus, when he sings, “chacarron, chacarron, chacarirrirron.”

As catchy as it may be, it is a shining example of how the overall IQ of musicians is falling drastically.

The only solution to this problem is to, in the words of the great Jon Stewart, rally to restore sanity.

Artists need to make an effort to deliver a good message in their songs, perhaps a socially-conscious message such as 2Pac’s classic, “Dear Mama.”

If more music was like the works of the past, society as a whole would improve.

What ever happened to the good old days, the days of  The Beatles’ “Ticket to Ride” and Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven?”

These songs were the songs of a generation, songs so strong that they transcend time itself.

And now, all we’re left with is, “I don’t want your gonorrhea.”