Posted on 09/07/2024 11:40:36 AM PDT by DallasBiff
On warm summer nights, the park across the street from my house is filled with people playing dribbling soccer balls, playing volleyball, or engaging in aggressive games of Spikeball.
Nearly all of them will have music playing through Bluetooth speakers, usually from the Spotify Top 100. And if I’m honest, none of this music is any good. All I hear is mumbled lyrics tunelessly rendered (well, except for the overuse of Auto-Tune) and beats so quantized that they could be substituted for an atomic clock
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Neil Young is my favorite.
I know I'm a stupid boomer, have fun itis Saturday
Just Listened To The New Spotify Top 10…What is Happening?!
- Rick Beato
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtUgtIoNGns
Part of the problem is law and lawsuits. You can find a few notes in any new song from some other song at this point.
Most of the male singers are whiny and sound pretty much the same. Music itself used to be creative and unique. Today’s music is boring!
Nobody listens to new classical music. They listen to Beethoven and Mozart.
It’s the same with rock music. People want to listen to The Beatles, Stones, etc.
There is a popular young couple on YouTube that gives reactions to old songs that their viewers recommend. The thing that constantly seems to amaze them is that the artists of yesteryear actually played their own instruments, didn't have to rely on autotune, sang with heartfelt emotion, and had meaningful lyrics. They often say they wished they had lived in those times.
I spoke to some college kids of my friends, and all of them said that all of their friends at college mostly listen to 80s Alternative.
I was riding along with them and they put on The Violent Femmes first album, we were all singing along, it was a great time.
It used to be that artists would borrow thoughts and ideas from the very best and craft new music, building upon great.
Ever since copyright laws have become so stringently enforced, music has deteriorated.
It's forced composers into "New Music", "EDM", etc. - to the point where it's just noise.
Modern culture is on its way down from what was once masters practicing their respective craft.
If you had a song in the Billboard Top 10 in the 1970’s, it meant that hundreds of thousands of people spent 69 cents or more on the 45 RPM version, and hundreds of thousands more bought the album for $5.99 (LP) or $6.99 (tape)(if you were an established act).
Now, there is such an established catalog of good music in high quality recordings for 70 years, that many stick with the old (or buy/download more of the old), and the new has to just go with a passing fad of a sound or lyric. Plus, there is hardly any “mainstream” music any more. The sub-genres are so numerous, they have pushed out the old Rock/Pop/Adult Contemporary/Country-Western/Jazz. Record companies like making music cheap. Less talent/more auto-tune, more images (visual appearance is more important than singing talent. True since before the days of Johnny Bravo, moreso today), fewer real instruments and more computers, etc. AI will take this to the next level, and I am sure a contemporary version of “It Was Only a Passing Fancy” will hit the Spotify Charts any time.
Button pushing hacks.
I also point out that you can tell the difference between a song that came out in January of 1967 vs a song that came out in December of 1967.
Now I couldn’t tell you if a song came out in 2024 or in 2000. There’s been no new ground broken since then.
Nick and Lex?
Political control and corporate sanitization killed the soul of music.
Frank Zappa said that what happened is that the “young, hip guys took over the record companies”, and that they were the ones who could judge what people wanted, whereas the old cigar-chomping execs were more willing to take a chance on experimental music, even though they didn’t get it.
It is a myth that all current music sucks. There are more great bands out there than I have time to listen to.
Please provide a link
I subscribe to Nick and Lex. They seem like nice people.
Two forms of music that absolutely stink: grunge and rap.
Innovation, creativity, and quality in music died in the 1960s & 1970s...
Innovation, creativity, and quality in science died in the 1960s...
The government acquired complete control of the Nation’s education systems in the 1960s and 1970s and converted them to indoctrination centers...
Draw your own conclusions...
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