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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Not so much that it sucks, it’s just that it’s nothing new. I’m sure today I can find a thousand guitarists technically better than Jimi Hendrix was. But they aren’t breaking any new ground, like Jimi did in his time.
I think another factor is the use of music for exercise noise, like while running or attending a fitness class at the gym. The instructors don’t care what the music is as much as they care about how many beats per minute, and they adjust the tempo to match the moves. This does not lend itself to creativity.
I watch reaction videos too and love to see the young ones enjoying my music - 70’s and 80’s. And you’re right - many say they wish they had lived then.
Jay and Amber seem like really nice people, too.
Amen, you said it so well.
The recording industry corporate scum have finally succeeded in making sure most rap music is cookie cutter dreck, judging from what I hear coming from vehicles in Pensacola.
Give me some Blood, Sweat & Tears, Tom Petty, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Robert Palmer, Heart, Carole King, Pink Floyd, Sting, Van Halen, Frank Sinatra, Elvis, Beatles and I’m good. ;)
Agree. Listened to a song called “Hey Everybody” by 5 Secinds of Summer, and immediately heard a mix of “Hungry Like The Wolf” by Duran Duran and “Driving My Life Away” by Eddie Rabbitt.
Although there is a LOT of talent out there, much of the music -- its design and lyrical content -- and the instrumentation sounds almost AI-generated (maybe it is!) ... pretty much the same.
Much like many "new" movies that are either re-makes or otherwise not so "original", creativity appears lacking.
The visual special effects in the movies and the quality of the HD+ sound is truly amazing ... but, perhaps because creativity takes hard work (or an unexplainable "cosmic" breakthrough), the movies and music often comes up short.
If you saw a Who concert in the mid 1970s, you would never forget that.
Yes, I can see that, but will there be any aging washerwomen left to enjoy it?
Vince Gill is an old guy, so I guess his music isn’t considered current.
He played a 4-hour show at the Ryman Auditorium August 1, started 8pm, finished at midnight. He did 41 songs. Best show I’ve ever seen, and that includes Stones, Petty, Allmans.
Among the many, many supporting musicians on stage, all talented, were Tom Bukovac and Jedd Hughes. Between Gill and those two guys, there was some flat out talent on guitar that night.
Thing was, I only bought the tickets because my wife is the Vince Gill fan. I could only name about two of his tunes. What a night, and what a bunch of great musicians.
I miss the Monkees.
The Warning are the best thing to happen to rock in this century.
Who would think 3 teenage girls from Mexico would be leading rock?
Three currently touring bands I’m into: Geese, The Heavy Heavy, and Twen.
Saw Twen two weeks ago and was blown away. Seeing Geese next week. It’s sold out. Geese is very popular these days.
All these band members are in their early to mid 20s and seem to respect what’s come before them, while adding their own fingerprints.
Shocked. NO.
Taylor Swift is a billionaire producing garbage.
Each generation for like ever has said the same thing. I do it too.
And yet I still find current music I find enjoyable and still hate a lot of it.
Wish I had the internet when I was younger. So much out there to explore so easily. Had to listen to college radio or go to the record store to find new things.
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