EVERYTHING FROM USA

hifidelity67 said:

Like the UK or France etc. What's good or hows it called top air play, see I dont even know how to phrase it, on the radio where you are. I use Spotify, Pandora,playlist sites, n other places like that mostly so I couldn't say what LA radio plays a lot of .. yourlisten [Edited 9/8/15 19:04pm]

In Britain it's pretty much identical to the US, minus any country music. Fucking dire to be honest, hifidelity67. Can't remember the last time an interesting act or song popped up in the charts....

MotownSubdivision said:

Here in the states, most popular music is garbage.

That's always been the case. If popular music wasn't garbage, then it wouldn't be so
easily disposable. If the 60s, 70s, 80s, and the early 90s were so laden with so much
good music, then why didn't the taste for the music produced during these decades
last?

In other words, who throws out good shit?

duccichucka said:

Im in costa rica. Rhianna - Pitbull are huge.....

all you hear here is reggaeton and all that stuff that sounds like jlo....the curly fryz track would fit in perfect down here.

I asked my spanish teacher (24 y/o) costa rican if she knew who Prince was and she was like WHO?


I immediately sent her a tracklist from my phone lolololol

MotownSubdivision said:

duccichucka said:

That's always been the case. If popular music wasn't garbage, then it wouldn't be so
easily disposable. If the 60s, 70s, 80s, and the early 90s were so laden with so much
good music, then why didn't the taste for the music produced during these decades
last?

In other words, who throws out good shit?

Seldom do good things last. Lots of things have changed for the worst over time, music (specifically the industry that is in charge of music) is just one of them. Why does a McDouble cost less than $2 but a salad cost $5?

Why do good things seldomly last? What is truly good that is easily disposable, hmm? The
Beatles? They endure. Beethoven? He endures. Miles Davis? He endures. Shakespeare?
He endures. Moby Dick? It endures. The Godfather endures. MLK's "I Have a Dream"? It defi-
nitely endures.

Good shit that's really good becomes a classic. Good shit that's not really good becomes flavor

of the month, and pop music has always been a context in which flavor of the month has an op-

portunity to make some kind of mark....and then on to the next! Like I said, if pop music wasn't
made up of mostly bullshit music, then it wouldn't be cast away so easily when other new fads
arrived. Instead, most pop music is made up of mostly bullshit music, which is one of the very
reasaons why fads are constantly coming and going. So, don't act like this generation is any
worse or better than any previous iteration.

duccichucka said:

In my apartment it has been the summer of Steve Grand.

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terrig said:

I asked my spanish teacher (24 y/o) costa rican if she knew who Prince was and she was like WHO?


I immediately sent her a tracklist from my phone lolololol

Here in Mexico if ask to anyone who the hell Prince is, everyone will answer the same: WHO? nobody knows who he is here.

MotownSubdivision said:

duccichucka said:

Why do good things seldomly last? What is truly good that is easily disposable, hmm? The
Beatles? They endure. Beethoven? He endures. Miles Davis? He endures. Shakespeare?
He endures. Moby Dick? It endures. The Godfather endures. MLK's "I Have a Dream"? It defi-
nitely endures.

Good shit that's really good becomes a classic. Good shit that's not really good becomes flavor

of the month, and pop music has always been a context in which flavor of the month has an op-

portunity to make some kind of mark....and then on to the next! Like I said, if pop music wasn't
made up of mostly bullshit music, then it wouldn't be cast away so easily when other new fads
arrived. Instead, most pop music is made up of mostly bullshit music, which is one of the very
reasaons why fads are constantly coming and going. So, don't act like this generation is any
worse or better than any previous iteration.

I can't tell if you're agreeing or disagreeing with me with most of what you said.

I don't follow either. For one thing there's a whole bunch of popular music that has endured.

hifidelity67 said:

Like the UK or France etc. What's good or hows it called top air play, see I dont even know how to phrase it, on the radio where you are. I use Spotify, Pandora,playlist sites, n other places like that mostly so I couldn't say what LA radio plays a lot of .. yourlisten [Edited 9/8/15 19:04pm]

I live in Pitbull and FloRida territory,

babynoz said:

MotownSubdivision said:

duccichucka said: I can't tell if you're agreeing or disagreeing with me with most of what you said.

I don't follow either. For one thing there's a whole bunch of popular music that has endured.

What I said is so clear! If there is an example of pop music that endures for reasons not related
to irony, then it has endured because it is a classic. But the majority of pop music that charts on
the radio and Billboard does not endure because it is disposable. Our culture is one that does not
get rid of classics; but we do get rid of fads, even if they tickle our fancy for awhile. Most pop music
tickles our fancy for awhile, and then we get rid of it and throw it away.

So, Motown thinks that today, and in the States, most pop music is garbage; but, I want to also
add that most pop music from the 60s - early 90s (a forty-five year window that this board
obsesses over) was just as disposable. We know this because, outside of the classics produced,
nobody gives a fuck about the majority of 60s artists, 70s artists, 80s, and early 90s artists who
were popular, because ultimately, they were disposable.