I wouldn’t mind if there was any decent modern music, but once everything became tinged with rap like sound and raunchiness, I tuned out of pop music.
I’m with you on rap and hip-hop. I don’t consider it music. But there really is a lot of good stuff out there now. The problem is that the industry is mostly one-hit wonders now, and lots of them.
Check out Phillip Phillips, or “Of Monsters and Men” from Iceland. interesting stuff, and no rap.
If it has a semblance of rap music in it I turn it off or change the channel. I was at the chiropractor the other day being treated in one of their rooms with heat and they had some rap music on and it was making me a nervous wreck having to listen to it and I finally uttered aloud dear God please turn that garbage off. Rap musicians can’t sing so they dupe suckers in with this blathering crap and within seconds he stops singing and I hear a woman actually carrying a decent tune. Turns out it was the Message on XM. It was Christian contemporary with a rap element, yuck!!! My wife listens to it and laughed loudly when I told her about it.
About the only thing worse than hip-hop and rap is current country music, hick-hop. It all sounds the same, drinking, screwing, partying and their pickup trucks. Give me Patsy Cline and George Strait!
I grew up having to listen to my parents music, 50’s-60’s-70’s. So I really like that era and most of the 80’s after that my interest drops off quickly. I do find it interesting that my oldest son in his early 20’s and my youngest son who is 15 love to listen to 50’s music. My 18 year old daughter is like my wife, she listens to all genre’s.
Agree.
I do stumble on something new once in a while that I like, but most of what’s out there is complete crap. I don’t find it pleasant or entertaining to hear cursing, screaming, misogyny, racism, anger, violence, and all the other things that the left accuses us of yet embraces in their “music”.
I rarely bother looking for anything new. The most likely place for me to discover new music is a soundtrack on tv or a movie. (Consdering how few movies I go to or how little tv I watch, that tends to be rare.) When I do hear something l like, I look for the artist and buy the album.