StrangeButTrue said:

RodeoSchro said:

Do you think there are as many young musicians today who could play what most young musicians in the '60's and 70's could play back then?

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Oooh ooh I got this one. Your argument is flawed because they don't need to! Apple done fixed that.

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Do you think the young musicians in the 60s and 70s could digitally alter sound waves on their Macbooks and arrange them in a repetitive fashion similar to the amazing innovations of many of today's young "musicians"?

[Edited 12/20/17 13:07pm]

purplethunder3121 said:

nextedition said:

Didnt the older generation say prince playrled the devils music? Getting so tired of one generation saying the next generation sucks so much.

I doubt that. Prince in the eyes of some serious dudes at Warner was next Stevie Wonder. And Prince started his career with opening track 'For You' -- sincerity of that caliber you cant expect overnight + he had that aura of mistery and didn't give too much interviews, public appearances etc.

But problem with this topic, like with Cardi B and other mediocre phenomena of this era, is this changing world we live in. Older generation probably can cope with that...Technology, internet, streaming -- overall entertaiment industry. Maybe all that has a good side and it's a reflection of who we really are. For god sake, some statistics shows that 30 percent of all data transferred across the entire funkin Internet is porn. What does that say about us? Lil Pump is just another youtube passenger. It happens that he hits chart music. The real music lovers can recognize and dig deeper to enjoy songwriting skills.

Everything should b observed in bigger scale, look for example at growing k-pop industry - but lets b honest here, they at least look challenging, they have very competitive environment and pretty quality entertaiment... but still majority of that is repetative and not that good.

Hip Hop can b very diverse and creative but problem starts when every single teeneger thinks he can use it... and create something atrocious like gucci gang.

lastdecember said:

Who are these so called "stars" that is one thing the internet has done, it has actually given the illusion to many that they matter in the world when they don't. Who cares about lil Pump i mean really, recently there was some guy that died Lil Peep i think his name was , and yes it was sad he was on some medications etc..but the articles described him as a star and famous, I asked 20 people who work in the industry if they had heard of him and none have ever heard the name or knew what a Lil Peep was. He basically was getting hits on "Soundcloud" and free downloads etc...so naturally shit is free people are gonna grab it, but dont start thinking you are somebody. Thats why we have so many of these issues.

Thats overall problem with this virtual interent/information era, cuz youtube, magazines, trending, branding etc can be very selective. Ppl forget that, and naturally if you are focused on one thing, that one thing will become huge part of your world.

This is a great article that shows on new kids/generation example how society is really confused this days...

http://reason.com/archive...generation

Shawy89 said:

this is the new culture, the new trend

it's also a global thing not just usa

Grillz aren't new, they've been around for awhile now, probably beggining with people wearing gold teeth many decades ago. That's why I think hip hop culture has been adopted by many more different kinds of people than rock n roll did. There's nostalgia with I Love The 90s tours with old school acts like Salt N Pepa, Kid N Play, Vanilla Ice, Tone Loc, Young MC, etc. MC Hammer is in current TV commercials for 3M. Snoop Dogg & Too $hort have appeared on the daytime soap opera One Life To Live. Graffiti art has been displayed in museums. There's orchestras doing it.

You can hear it at a Renaissance Faire.

There's even KKK neo-nazi white power rappers, which is kinda ironic, like skinheads who listen to reggae & ska.