There is nothing wrong with modern music, and it is a vastly better time for music lovers than the sixties, seventies, or eighties.
I guess if you mean big acts, well, their day came and went. There will be fewer of them and that is a very very good thing.
The gatekeepers are dead. Few will take up the cry “long live the gatekeeper” because a new one didn’t replace the old one.
Instead, the cost to record, engineer, and distribute music fell into a deep abyss. Anyone can make anything, and with a little effort it will be a polished anything.
Niche genre music that previously was not recorded now is. Acts from Sweden can distribute music intantly to Chile.
If your tastes were succesfully molded by the recording industry to mainstream pap all this is confusing and bewildering. But if you have broad tastes in music then today is wonderful and amazing.
One of the great things about YouTube is that you can discover a lot of great music from the 60s and 70s that was not very popular back when it came out, and as they say, if you’ve never heard it, it’s new.
The only thing I’ve seen lately even remotely interesting is Dark Americana:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86z2zPcX3mM&list=PLcjh5X1h22tiawLKXRI1XrHhltbcUxMX7
Even Bob Dylan has been picking up some of the style over the last decade.
I strongly disagree. While digital recording and YouTube allow African tribesmen to enjoy the latest Swiss yodeling, it is just a fact that the music made in the 60’s and 70’s by the giants of classic rock was quantum leaps above the quality produced today in both musicianship and innovation. This is probably in large part because music was a much larger part of the culture at the time.
No way. The creativity and originality of Rock 'n Roll, Blues, Country, R&B, and Jazz during the '50's,. '60's, and '70's was light years beyond anything today. Light years.
“There is nothing wrong with modern music, and it is a vastly better time for music lovers than the sixties....”
Yeah... RIGHT (insert eye-roll here).
Doubtful. The best, maybe is as good as the best was then, and today may not look so bad compared to the late 70s, say, but you don't have the heaps of talent in popular music than you had at other times (mid to late 60s, early 70s, early 80s).
You've got some unmemorable and interchangeable rock acts, and a lot of rappers, and neither group is aren't producing stuff with as much wide appeal as what the more melodic 60s, 70s, or 80s artists did.
I'd even say that today's rappers are less interesting and distinctive than 90s rappers were. Some may actually be more talented, but they don't make a splash the way the old school did.
I guess if you mean big acts, well, their day came and went. There will be fewer of them and that is a very very good thing.
Once again, I have to disagree. You have "big acts" now like Taylor Swift or Adele, but you don't have the hosts of second and third level artists scrambling to get to the top.
If you're talking about "rock" narrowly defined. Sure, the big acts are gone or are old men and new ones aren't coming up and making as big a sensation. But once again, it's those second and third tier artists that aren't making much of an impression on a wider public. The energy just isn't there anymore. Songs back in the 60s and in the 80s were a lot more memorable.
There is plenty of awesome new music. Yes, rock too. There always will be awesome music. Creative musicians stand on the shoulders of those who went before.