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That's because record companies took control, and the marketing chokes out any new talent. They sell visual aids, the music is manufactured after the fact. The only way natural talent lives is on local stages & YouTube if you're dying of cancer. Free market is dead. So enjoy your Taylor Swift & Kenny Chesney tickets.
People who make these bold proclamations about all music made after a specific, arbitary date are just looking back on the music they grew up with through rose-colored glasses.
For instance, the OP describes modern rap as loud, incomprehensible nonsense. As long as we're generalizing entire genres here, how is that any different from the grunge crap that flooded the airwaves in the early-to-mid '90s? The only difference between Kurt Cobain mumbling nonsense behind loud guitars and Future or Desiigner mumbling nonsense behind loud trap beats is that the former is considered "real music" by fawning rockists.
Just go back and look at the charts pre-1995 and you'll find plenty of crap. Grunge, hair metal, Celine Dion, Bryan Adams, Vanilla Ice, MC Hammer - and that's just the early '90s.
Good music (and bad music, for that matter) is made every decade, every year. You just have to be open-minded and willing to look for the good stuff instead of waiting for it to come to you.
So right. I see so many of the folks I graduated high school with constantly posting crap from the 80's and whining about how music will never be that good again. Really? I loved me some Motley Crue when I was 16 but I can barely make it through a whole song now. You either continue to grow and change or you get stuck in the past. Sure there are some groups considered classics that really never get old (Grandmaster Flash, Run DMC, Led Zep, The Who, etc) but most stuff has an expiration date to everyone except those who get stuck in that timeframe. Even so, the stuff that has an expiration may be good for a few years.
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[–] gosso920 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
That's because today's music ain't got the same soul.
Source: Bob Seger
[–] 2drunk ago
You just need to know where to look.
@HenryCorp
[–] antiliberalsociety 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
That's because record companies took control, and the marketing chokes out any new talent. They sell visual aids, the music is manufactured after the fact. The only way natural talent lives is on local stages & YouTube if you're dying of cancer. Free market is dead. So enjoy your Taylor Swift & Kenny Chesney tickets.
[–] BoiseNTheHood 1 point 1 point 2 points (+2|-1) ago
People who make these bold proclamations about all music made after a specific, arbitary date are just looking back on the music they grew up with through rose-colored glasses.
For instance, the OP describes modern rap as loud, incomprehensible nonsense. As long as we're generalizing entire genres here, how is that any different from the grunge crap that flooded the airwaves in the early-to-mid '90s? The only difference between Kurt Cobain mumbling nonsense behind loud guitars and Future or Desiigner mumbling nonsense behind loud trap beats is that the former is considered "real music" by fawning rockists.
Just go back and look at the charts pre-1995 and you'll find plenty of crap. Grunge, hair metal, Celine Dion, Bryan Adams, Vanilla Ice, MC Hammer - and that's just the early '90s.
Good music (and bad music, for that matter) is made every decade, every year. You just have to be open-minded and willing to look for the good stuff instead of waiting for it to come to you.
[–] 6192895? 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
So right. I see so many of the folks I graduated high school with constantly posting crap from the 80's and whining about how music will never be that good again. Really? I loved me some Motley Crue when I was 16 but I can barely make it through a whole song now. You either continue to grow and change or you get stuck in the past. Sure there are some groups considered classics that really never get old (Grandmaster Flash, Run DMC, Led Zep, The Who, etc) but most stuff has an expiration date to everyone except those who get stuck in that timeframe. Even so, the stuff that has an expiration may be good for a few years.
[–] VoutGuy 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
What are the last songs from that era you enjoy?
[–] MCVoat 1 point -1 points 0 points (+0|-1) ago
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