I agree with Shelia 100%. I've also agree with Kid Rock when he complain about THE same problem of the 2014 Billboard Awards. | |
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. Amen x 1000000 . A good reminder why I mostly listen to older music (with limited exceptions, including EDM/other electronica and alt rock). "I would say that Prince's top thirty percent is great. Of that thirty percent, I'll bet the public has heard twenty percent of it." - Susan Rogers, "Hunting for Prince's Vault", BBC, 2015 | |
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The music industry has never had this many options to choose the kind of music that fits any person's musical taste than ever before. The Billboard Music Awards and Grammy Awards represent the old guard of the music business. I hate performers that lip-synch and the crappy music made by artists who care more about their social media followers, bossip hits and branding, but in this day and age complaining about artists lip syncing at award shows is like complaining about the one large fast food chain in your neighborhood while ignoring the alternative healthier restaurants. There will always be disposable music but if more people actually bought more music from artists with actual talent, there would be no need for Sheila E., Prince and Kid Rock to bitch about it. [Edited 5/20/15 21:20pm] 3121 #1 THIS YEAR | |
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Kanye West is an idiot asshole, and there's nothing likable about him. | |
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1contessa said: Kanye West is an idiot asshole, and there's nothing likable about him. I and many others agree!!! | |
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You gotta be joking.Sure,every decade has its share of crap music,but back then,good music frequently ruled the charts.In the 70s,you had important,credible artists like Stevie Wonder,Carole King,Aretha Franklin,Fleetwood Mac,Santana,The Eagles,Bill Withers,Marvin Gaye,Curtis Mayfield,Earth Wind & Fire,Bee Gees,Parliament,Funkadelic,Elton John,etc...all making amazing,smart,thoughful music.And their music was the music that dominated the radio!! Nowadays,the radio airwaves are dominated by vapid,boring pop starlets,wannabees and lame hip-hop.Are you really trying to compare the 70s pop music scene to the CRAP that we have now?! | |
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. . The fact that a small but significant number of younger folk are turned on to older music tells you it's not a matter of the listener being behind the times... . Also, didn't Billboard have to create their "catalog album" chart because some older albums were outselling the contemporary "bestsellers"? I doubt that's all due to 40-somethings or older who are buying extra copies of Back in Black, The Dark Side of the Moon, etc etc. "I would say that Prince's top thirty percent is great. Of that thirty percent, I'll bet the public has heard twenty percent of it." - Susan Rogers, "Hunting for Prince's Vault", BBC, 2015 | |
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missfee said: No doubt she's telling the truth, but this is why I don't even bother to watch the Billboard Awards or any other awards show these days for that matter. And this is coming from an early 80's born Millennial. I'm with you on that | |
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I agree with both of you.. There's always been 'throwaway' 'non compelling' artists & music.. Back in the day you had to at least have SOME REAL TALENT! Today you really dont even need to concern yourself with talent if the package/look is right. That along with 'Computer Recording' IMHO has made this nightmare a reality.
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I've randomly selected the top five songs of any given year in the 70s and the 00s/10s and I hope someone can explain why the songs in the 70s are superior to those in the 2. "Dark Horse" - Katy Perry | |
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There's always been shit, we all know that. But come on! The total lack of record companies actually competing nowadays has been the main cause of the demise of good new pop music.
No competition creates stagnation. The charts have been a joke for years now with songs lasting years on the charts as no new shit takes it over LOL.... . The handful of record companies left are fine with this, but it makes the labels in general look lazy, uninspired and content which has created this situation we are in where there is a total lack of good new songs and good new artists coming through. . The few that get signed can't be blamed as they just do what they do, but A&R is practically non-existant now. . The possible new talent are the bedroom making musicians, but they won't get signed as there's hardly no one to sign with LOL. Plus, alot of them need that record label "polish" and "direction" that record companies use to give but simply don't anymore.
The lact of new acts, along with the awful way radio is run and segregated are 2 of the main factors as to why pop music these days just seems so horrible and "narrow" now. Very little variety compared to say the 80's. . There's still good pop music, but compared to the past, it's noticable how few and far between genuinely good pop songs are these days. . Example being a song like "happy". It deserved to be a big hit, but it was so big and got played for so long because nothing that good would replace it LOL. Back in the 80's, that wouldn't of happened. It would of been a hit no doubt, but it would of moved along alot quicker also. . Today's radio being scared to play new stuff just tops off the stupidity of these mass media controlled stations and record companies. All this and more has created a general decline in pop music based mainly on the sheer number of actual new music released to top 40.
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CynicKill said:
> It was. He was obscured from view because of massice pyrotechnics and smoke. And huge chunks of audio was blank because he failed to appear at a dress so ABC didn't know what he was gonna do and just said F-it! Here is what we all missed out on. BTW kanye is pissed at the censors. [Hook 1: Kanye West] All day, nigga, Sucks. Didn't he get booed? | |
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I was done with Kanye when he started "scream-singing..." "Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato
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purplethunder3121 said:
I was done with Kanye when he started "scream-singing..." Sad | |
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I agree with Sheila inasmuch as I also believe the craft of live performance has become sadly small-minded over the past couple decades or so. Ὅσον ζῇς φαίνου
μηδὲν ὅλως σὺ λυποῦ πρὸς ὀλίγον ἐστὶ τὸ ζῆν τὸ τέλος ὁ χρόνος ἀπαιτεῖ.” | |
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duccichucka said:
Get off the crack. Music sales are at a all time low for a reason. | |
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In my opinion,all of these songs are better than anything that is currently on the charts right now."Shadow Dancing" was actually the very first 45 single that I bought come to think of it,1978 is my favorite year for music.Those Bee Gees songs are excellent!!
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see,that's the thing....I disagree with that opinion.I remember in the 70s,good music was dominating the charts.I know that "good music" is subjective,but come on....look at some of the most successful albums of the 70s.I'm talking about Innervisions,Songs In The Key Of Life,Rumours,Saturday Night Fever,SuperFly,Breakfast In America,and on and on.The cheesy one-hit wonder acts were around,but there was so much GREAT music on the charts,we could tolerate stuff like "Play That Funky Music",lol.Nowadays,it's all reversed.It's the horrible stuff that gets all the attention and airplay.The artistic,thoughtful music gets left behind. | |
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and you know darn well that a classic album like Songs In The Key Of Life puts any current album on today's charts,to shame | |
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The music industry may not even exist anymore by 2025 I think it has ten years to shore this stuff up before it all collapses against uts own weight Its very sad and disconcerting the pathvmusic and entertainment has traveled. Great music made a huge difference in my life The industry knows its running on fumes | |
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Agreed. I just find it hard 2 believe that somehow the industry has been laid 2 rest. I'm speechless right about now. FOOLS multiply when WISE Men & Women are silent. | |
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duccichucka said: I've randomly selected the top five songs of any given year in the 70s and the 00s/10s and I hope someone can explain why the songs in the 70s are superior to those in the 2. "Dark Horse" - Katy Perry [Edited 5/22/15 8:33am] | |
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MotownSubdivision said:duccichucka said:I've randomly selected the top five songs of any given year in the 70s and the 00s/10s and I hope someone can explain why the songs in the 70s are superior to those in the00s/10s:(my source is the Billboard Hot 100 chart)19711. "Joy to the World" - Three Dog Night2. "Maggie May" - Rod Stewart3. "It's too Late" - Carole King4. "One Bad Apple" - The Osmonds5. "How Can You Mend A Broken Heart?" - The Bee Gees1974 1. "The Way We Were" - Barbra Streisand2. "Seasons in the Sun" - Terry Jacks3. "Love's Theme" - Love Unlimited Orchestra4. "Come and get Your Love" - Redbone5. "Dancing Machine" - The Jackson Five19781. "Shadow Dancing" - Andy Gibb2. "Night Fever" - The Bee Gees3. "You Light Up my Life" - Debbie Boone4. "Stayin' Alive" - The Bee Gees5. "Kiss You All Over" - Exile20021. "How You Remind Me" - Nickelback2. "Foolish" - Ashanti3. "Hot in Herre" - Nelly4. "Dilemma" - Nelly/Kelly Rowland5. "Wherever You Will Go" - The Calling20111. "Rolling in the Deep" - Adele2. "Party Rock Anthem" - LMFAO3. "Firework" - Katy Perry4. "ET" - Katy Perry5. "Give me Everything" - Pitbull20141. "Happy" - Pharrell Williams 2. "Dark Horse" - Katy Perry3. "All of Me" - John Legend4. "Fancy" - Iggy Azalea5. "Counting Stars" - OneRepublicGood luck, you intrepid soul(s)!Because the artists of the 70s were musically talented in some way and had something to bring to the table whether it be singing, songwriting, producing, instrumentation, dancing, or a combination thereof. They all had paid their dues or were payig their dues andhad to prove themselves worthy of success in order to make it which is why today's artists and their music don't have a snowball's chance in hell of holding a candle to thwir predecessors. Today's artists are mostly industry products that are pushed by their labels artificially as some major force and "the new (insert name of musical legend here)" via implication or blatant explanation and not coming within a square mike of living uo to the hype. While artists of the 70s had to invest all thwir time and effort into just being a relevant act in music, most of today's artists are being hailed as an all-time great for simply debuting. One hit song that won't be remembered after 2 weeks somehow makes them worthwhile. Ariana Grande came out just 2 years ago and was already being called the next Mariah Carey. It's all marketing these days and some people are smart enough not to invest in this cheap ploy the industry uses like toilet paper. Today's top stars would be lucky to even have a career playing in bars much less opening for the top stars of the 60s, 70s, 80s, and even 90s; there's just no comparison. MJ on his worst day could embarrass Justin Timberlake at his best. Prince eclipses Bruno's entire career so far in just one album. Beyonce couldn't hope to outsing Whitney Houston. Gaga, Rihanna, Miley, Nicki, and Katy combined have less starpower than Madonna. Marvin Gaye had more soul in one strand of hair than Robin Thicke has I his entire body. George Michael makes Justin Bieber look like Justin Bieber. Practically every female pop star today owes their careers to Janet. Stevie Wonder outperformed every artist that paid tribute to him at his own show and can still bring it live at the age of 65; something these young, cookie cutter, manufactured clowns infesting the charts couldn't do on their best day. There's just no comparison. Sure, trash has always been on the charts but in the 70s there was an equal ifnot greater amount of good music alongside it (music still celbrated and wnjoy and revered today, mind you). A good amount of crap from the 70s craps all over the crap from today and wipes its ass with the parts it just so happened to miss. Mainstream music today is a joke; plain and simple. ______________BRAVO!!!!! | |
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Graycap23 said:
Agreed. I just find it hard 2 believe that somehow the industry has been laid 2 rest. I'm speechless right about now. Absolutely | |
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Badass performer She needs another album reminiscent of her Glamorous Life - Sheila E years She #ICON, but the album is just not reflective of the Sheila E I jam | |
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da '70s were the golden age of solid albums/strong as hell album tracks sure there were some silly songs getting the number 1 spot in da '70s, but there were HUNDREDS of GREAT songs that made the top30 and THOUSANDS that were never released as singles; Elton John's Tower of Babel was never released as a single and that song ALONE shits on ANYTHING released after the first half of the 00's (in my opinion, the last "good" era of music) judging an entire decade just because the number ones is all kind of biased/ignorant nowadays singles are just bottom of the barrel and the albums are a CHORE to sit through; I literally CANNOT hear an ENTIRE album of ANY post '90s new artist, Adele's 21 being the exception... [Edited 5/22/15 12:47pm] | |
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What about djs? All you others say Hell Yea!! | |
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