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!
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.
Political control and corporate sanitization killed the soul of music.
It is a myth that all current music sucks. There are more great bands out there than I have time to listen to.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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?