I'll toss out three basic perspectives:
1) New music is great and those who disagree either don't know where to find it or have a generational bias
2) New music sucks but there's reason to believe it will recover and be great again
3) New music sucks and it's all downhill from here
I probably agree most with 2 but am nagged by the possibility of 3.
New music is great. If you don’t know that, you don’t know how to find it. Here’s a clue: you will not find great new music on commercial radio stations. You probably won’t even find it on satellite stations either.
Yeah, I have a lot of respect for Beato. I’ll have to check this out.
It’s like everything else in all of Western Civilization (as it collapses) - everything, everywhere sucks. And it is all downhill from here.
I have tried to listen to music from today, and there ste very, very few songs that I actually liked.
Most of the time, anything that’s made after about 1989 just pretty much sucks. But, then again, it’s just my opinion.
There’s probably good new music, but it’s not getting promoted by record labels because it’s not woke enough.
The record labels promote crap.
The Beatles wouldn’t make it today because they were 4 white guys.
Well there are a lot more “old” music compared to “new” music and it’s easier than ever to get it.
IMHO, New music, commercially produced, overwhelmingly, is not inspiring, is woke and does not stand the test of time.
I listen to a classic rock AM station on my trusty 1937 Zenith black dial tombstone tabletop radio that weighs in at around 40 lbs.
Is the new music music?
This is what people say to me all the time when this topic comes up. So I say, "OK-- Like what?" So they send me links and give me recommendations. And it always turns out that I don't care for it. Not that it not be considered "good music" to them or someone else-- EVERY piece or type of music appeals to SOMEONE (witness rap or electronic music or J-pop or any number of other things), but it doesn't appeal to me (and apparently not to a lot of other people).
I like old songs by old artists because (a) it is good music (creative in lyric and melody and well-performed or delivered), or (b) it is comparable in style to what I already love.
For me personally (for example), show me the modern day Creedence, or Chicago, or Earth, Wind, and Fire. Show me the artists that are making Steely Dan and Doobie Brothers type new material. Where are the heirs to the Motown, Atlantic, Philly, and Stax sounds? Not imitations or covers, but what that music would be if it had been allowed to develop and flourish? That's what I would call good music.
Write a good song, and you’ll fill the world with joy, even if you’ve written a sad song.
I’m actively trying to listen to new music. I’m lucky in that I have a kid and two grandkids. (Sunflower, from Spiderman into the Spiderverse, and “My Anxiety” are two of the theirs and I like them both a lot.)
But, even aside from that, when I go on Spotify I’ll ask for stuff like “music to clean house by” or something like that. So I get stuff that is new to me, at least.
We’re not in a golden age now, but there are still good, new songs being written.
Who listens to new symphonies, as opposed to works by Beethoven, Mozart, Bach, etc.
Rock and Roll has reached that point.
Beato is too boring.
But, that’s beside the point.
New music is horrible and dull.
Old music is new to youngsters who never heard it and compared to what the industry puts out is way better.
The industry is all part of the democrat mind control totalitarian machine. Social engineering and thought control matter, not music.
The secular socialist culture that The Atlantic promotes (the culture of death) is dead as a doornail. Just like all the crap foisted on us from the socialists elites — books, movies, magazines, news, all organs of culture — I’m not interested.
Thank you for posting.
BMK
As far as I can tell (assuming the stuff my gym plays is representative), the “new” music is anything but music.
Endless computer drum tracks along with shouting and chanting.
I guess I am one of the few who will mix Cab Calloway, Mozart, Bob Wills, Phantom of the Opera and Perry Como on my CD player, and spend the rest of the day in Hog Heaven!
Most of what I listen to in recent years is not in English. If I don’t know the words it is less distracting as I am writing software.
Also, it is new to me even if it is from the 70s such as from the Anatolian Rock Revival project (e.g. Baris Manco https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qfbepXqd3c ) or Zambian 70’s rock (e.g Witch and their ‘Lazy Bones’ album https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZV-4tW5lKY ) or newer stuff like Russia’s folk rock Otava Yo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HtvH34CmZY ) or the 3 lovely Georgian ladies of Trio Mandili https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDK9KOfknTw, or various central and eastern european bands, traditional chinese music, or mongolian throat singing, or whatever