Posted on 12/02/2021 7:26:02 AM PST by dmam2011
As I’ve grown older, I’ll often hear people my age say things like “they just don’t make good music like they used to.”
Why does this happen?
Luckily, my background as a psychologist has given me some insights into this puzzle.
We know that musical tastes begin to crystallize as early as age 13 or 14. By the time we’re in our early 20s, these tastes get locked into place pretty firmly.
In fact, studies have found that by the time we turn 33, most of us have stopped listening to new music. Meanwhile, popular songs released when you’re in your early teens are likely to remain quite popular among your age group for the rest of your life.
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" Luckily, my background as a psychologist has given me some insights into this puzzle. "
Luckily, my background in "COMMON SENSE" has given me some insights into this puzzle.
When there are JUNGLE DRUMS in the back beat, bitches/hoes in the lyrics, and "break dancing" (is that even dancing?) then it's just monkey jumping!
G&S songs are rapidly and somewhat rhythmically delivered dialog in a musical play. Rap is nothing like that.
Pantload.
Im not buying the crystalized emotion nonsense either.
The fact is that the music industry is intentionally manipulated and has been for a long time. Ive heard Eddie Trunk brag about his part in destroying the music many of you listened to (he refers to it as something like recognizing and facilitating the change in trends).
Most of you are too busy in your adult life to attempt to find decent music. The labels have to force a change from time to time to keep selling albums. Its all a manipulation.
Most of the kids that think they like rap literally dont know any better and when they are exposed to real music are shocked that something like that exists.
Sometimes it seems the intent behind the specific trend change seems to be for the purpose of irritating the previous group of listeners. For me the period of about 93-03 was just trash. Popular music was split into angry groups, angsty whiney groups, cRap performers, and formulaic top 40s with an eye toward pushing cultural subversion.
Then one day I realized that real bands and real music were still out there, the big labels just wont push it. No, its not "mere exposure", bad music is still bad music. Good music just doesnt have the same kind of financial backing. Its often forced to move out of the US but survives where American labels have a little less control.
Some of you seem to just like the worst music of your era, I dont know how to help. I havent intentionally listened to country music since about 82 so cant really help there either but I know some better stuff exists because the wife found that since Im chronically difficult to wake that irritating me to back consciousness with country music was more effective.
"The Kids" dont actually care who or what you listen to, thats mostly industry nonsense too. As noted by others, the music industry is losing control of their ability to control what we all listen to and often the kids like your input and your bands. Some are making good money emulating your bands.
Here are a couple of things for the rest of you that I hope might get you out there looking for more.
Real meaning and writing, story?
SABATON - Christmas Truce
Real talent, no machines, melody, message and some good sories?
Volbeat - For Evigt or maybe Volbeat - Leviathan. How about Lola Montez · Volbeat.
Heres a bunch of kids making buckets by emulating Led Zeppelin, maybe this is for you?
Then there is “The Scarlet Letter”, which would die if only teachers would let it.
I’ve been pleasantly surprised by 1920s and 1930s music.
Oh my sides!
Why did anyone bother to post after this truth?
And even among the Christian music industry, I can't stand that since the late 1990's so much of what passes for "popular" Christian music is basically highly repetitive, predictable crescendo "worship" music. For that I blame the Aussie invasion of CCM in the late 1990's. LOL
By the way, I didn't care much for Stryper in the 1980's (IMHO they were good not great). But they came out of retirement a decade ago and I like their new stuff. Like their Yaweh, Reborn, and their remake of Jesus is Just Alright.
But more than that I can listen all day to Petra's Graverobber, Lorid Is My Joy by Vision, White Heart's Heroes, Whitecross' In the Kingdom, or I'm Still Rockin' by David and the Giants.
Auto Tune has ruined most modern music for me.
If you haven’t discovered him yet, I highly recommend Rick Beato’s videos on YouTube.
“I am discovering new artists all the time.”
I saw John Prine on your list. He’s not exactly a new artist, having released his first album in 1971. Plus he’s been dead for over a year and a half now.
“The Beatles SUCK
The most overrated band in history.”
No, that would be the Greatful Dead.
True, but I discovered him from Sturgil Simpson covering him.
And he’s “new” to me.
Yes, but her songs are heavily influenced by '60's soul/Motown, such as "Rumour Has It."
What don't you buy about it? That you are imprinted with music at certain times in your lives?
Empirically, that is irrefutable, and I am pretty certain there has been research on that too.
Simple; new music ain’t.
I love encountering classical music that is new to me, whether it be from the 1500s or the 2020s.
I do not, however, like new popular music. The cut off for me with popular music is usually the 70s, sometimes 80s. This is not nostalgia, as I was not even around for it. But 90s and later is mostly garbage. I can appreciate that some of it is fun to move to (although outside of real hip hop dancers, no one does much to it other than bump and grind, which is exceedingly boring),
but it’s uninteresting musically and lyrically pure trash.
What do you mean by “new?” Perhaps you’re discussing genre. Some of the new ones completely suck.
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