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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I quit listening to new music in 1982. When I listen to music it’s top 10 hits from the 70s. Everybody says, “oh, listen to this new song”. My inevitable answer; “it sucks”. I think autotune completely destroyed music.
I asked ChatGPT to write a poem making fun of one of my buddies.
I sent the poem to our group text
Within minutes another friend on that group text had some AI program turn the ChatGPT poem into song - 2 songs, actually. One was hip hop/rap and one was country.
Yes, musicianship is almost unnecessary now. Preferred, but not required.
They do. Really likable.
I must admit I really like this AI song....
I Glued My Balls To My Butthole Again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPlOYPGMRws
I just checked them out. You’re right, they are good.
Kiss Off!
Loved the Femmes. Had all their stuff on vinyl back in the day. Gave the collection away.
I notice he’s found a top ten song that actually has a key change — prompting him to point out that there hasn’t been a #1 song with a key change since 2009, a big change from prior decades when key changes were common in pop music. And of course this goes to his point that modern music lacks sophistication.
It’s been true for the past 10-15 years, including my kids and their friends.
They like some new music, but they seem to love music from the 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s.
When I was young, we didn’t listen to our parents’ and grandparents’ music.
But, young people today enjoy music that is 30-50 years old.
To think back in 1973, Mike Oldfield at the age of 19 composed and played every instrument on Tubular Bells.
When I heard of Sergio Mendes’ passing yesterday, I thought back to how that was the music my Dad liked, and liked it too. Still do. He had good taste in music for his time.
Watched rerun of Urban Cowboy the other night just to hear the soundtrack again.
Another good soundtrack movie is “Dazed and Confused”.
“Most of the male singers are whiny and sound pretty much the same.”
And that’s common for soundtracks for newer movies. The nasally breathy whining is intolerable. No depth to the voices.
Music is the language of the Angels. Think about it, the fallen angels are making sure that their language is what we hear not the beautiful language of those who stayed loyal to God.
And many of the female singers sound screechy to me. I literally cringe at them.
Yes to all of those.
In 1990, I was dating a younger guy who worked in my office. One day he came in and said that on his way to work he had heard a great new group! “Three Dog Night.” (He was too young.)
There are indications in the comment section of the YouTube’s you mentioned that indicate that the rising generation are beginning to suspect that life really was better back in the day that’s such a music could’ve been made, or could have existed. I’ve seen quite a few such comments by the Youtubers as well.
Most youth, today, probably don’t even understand so many of the words, colloquialisms, and, common sayings in the Beatles songs.
They aren’t teaching even basic English, or, assigning the classics, for reading, in most schools, anymore.
Maybe today’s music is written with text phrases/terms.
Not sure ... I listen to mostly decades old ++ music :)
“There is something very, very wrong with today’s music. It just may not be very good.”
Been that way for years...too many democrats.
Pre WW2 baby here.
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