[1Old Pro]

The music industry is a wasteland compared to those artists from our past.

Yep, I could see it coming in the mid-80's when RAP was added to music awards as if it was good music. I knew for sure that it was over when RAP was winning awards. Political correctness helped kill the music industry.

[jpl]

I knew for sure that it was over when RAP was winning awards. Political correctness helped kill the music industry.

The music executives are far worse than just politically correct, they're utterly deranged. They think a child molesting freak like Michael Jackson still has credibility for crying out loud.

[YankeeReb]

Yep, I could see it coming in the mid-80's when RAP was added to music awards as if it was good music. I knew for sure that it was over when RAP was winning awards. Political correctness helped kill the music industry.

Finally someone has said it!!! My sentiments exactly. I have a rule about listening to CD's in my car (the only place I really listen). If there's no tune I can decipher, if I can't understand the lyrics or if the lyrics are about rape, cop killing etc.. I won't allow it on my CD player.

[Wolfstar]

The pseudo-black stylism that includes screeching, trilling, 20-notes-per-syllable, falsetto and other vocal gymnastics crammed into virtually every song by even the few gifted singers around today is a huge turn-off to me. The purity of the music is buried under the weight of such vocal theatrics. Sometimes simple and understated really are better. It also doesn't help that so many "artists" these days can't sing a note, so they rely on recording studio wizards to manufacture their voices. No matter who the "artist" is, they all wind up with the same mechanical sound. And it doesn't help that all the female vocalists look like cheap hookers, and the males look like the broken-down winos I'd see on the Bowerie in lower Manhattan when I was a kid.