'Nuff said.
Posted on 01/23/2022 3:42:55 PM PST by Yardstick
Old songs now represent 70 percent of the U.S. music market, according to the latest numbers from MRC Data, a music-analytics firm. Those who make a living from new music—especially that endangered species known as the working musician—should look at these figures with fear and trembling. But the news gets worse: The new-music market is actually shrinking. All the growth in the market is coming from old songs.
The 200 most popular new tracks now regularly account for less than 5 percent of total streams. That rate was twice as high just three years ago. The mix of songs actually purchased by consumers is even more tilted toward older music. The current list of most-downloaded tracks on iTunes is filled with the names of bands from the previous century, such as Creedence Clearwater Revival and The Police.
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New music seems to be focused on urban customers.
'Nuff said.
Takes nothing to bongo demon sacrifice.
...“433” by the “composer” John Cage which consists of four minutes and 33 seconds of silence.
I love that one! I’ll listen to it over and over.
The local Lowe’s home improvement store was playing Buddy Holly the last time I was there.
I also do that, but I group songs by year. In the folder for 1950 on my 1950's flash drive, for example, you will hear Jo Stafford singing a soulful love song, Charline Arthur and Kitty Kallen singing dance tunes, Hank Willims, Tex Williams and Arthur Smith threatening Stalin with nuclear war, Ernst Busch praising Stalin, and a Soviet chorus celebrating the Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship and Alliance.
New music sucks. Period.
What new music can hold a candle to
ELO’s Rollover Beethoven (long version)
Rocky Mountain High
Angie
Knights in White Satin
Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on my head
Pretty Woman
The City of New Orleans
Me and my Bobby McGee
Blowin’ in the Wind
and on and on and on and on...
A guy did a cover of 4:33 and Cage’s estate sued him. He argued in court that his silence was completely different. I think the judge threw them both out.
On the other hand, “433” would be a great for use by restaurants that insist on playing background music. Then it might be quiet enough to converse while eating.
“But, then again, it’s just my opinion.”
And you just posted the real reason people are having trouble with today’s music. People do not listen to what they know is entertaining, they listen to what they are told to. Few have an opinion.
The music field is diminishing just like every field. And it is getting worse. It started in the 1950’s and has gone down hill from there. Give it time, it will all sound alike and you will be expected to love it. It’s all part of the indoctrination.
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Another thing - auto tune and looks over talent seems to rule the day. If you look good, we can make you sound good.
Mama Cass would get laughed out of an audition today because they can take a cute blonde and make her sound the same. So would Meat Loaf - who actually probably was on numerous occasions. Yet their voices resonated with people that didn’t care what they looked like.
Today’s music isn’t honest music. Maybe that’s the problem.
And gospel music as well. I have a theory that we don't see anymore soulful singers is that less of them have grown up in the church than in previous years.
I’ll also listen to Hrdza, Teraz My, Rokiczanka and a few others. I usually keep the videos off screen and just hear the music - for some unknown reason videos like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ts1ccVRwafA are just too distracting.
“Endless computer drum tracks along with shouting and chanting.”
don’t forget the wailing and screeching of female “singers” filtered through Autotune ...
There is a lot of good new music out there but you never get to hear it on the radio. Here is a band playing music which it almost 100% influenced by old music. The dead, Allman Bros, soul music for starters. They finally have gotten some airplay on xm radio within the last couple of weeks. https://youtu.be/ebaSPs_kTjA
Gospel for sure.
There’s a documentary on the roots of jazz gospel and Jewish cantor music are the roots and they are closely related musically.
Rock and roll comes from gospel, the blues also country- Appalachian which comes from the Scottish and Irish.
There is a whole series 2here young kids raised on HipHop react to their first hearing of songs like “House of the Rising Sun” or “Unchained Melody”. The reaction is pretty pleasing to a dinosaur like me. When they hear that voice coming out of a 22year-old Eric Burden or Bobby Hatfield hitting that note it’s like they discovered a new continent.
I’m guessing people’s choices are a vote. They vote for what they like best. That doesn’t mean other music isn’t good. It just means to them something else is liked more.
Also, the doorkeepers of the arts, including music, are all promoting ideological agendas. The old djs were more concerned with sound.
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