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The TRUTH Why Modern Music Is Awful
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Yes, my son introduced me to this guy a couple of years ago. Style is the second cousin to class | |
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There is more great music than ever; Hiatus Kaiyote, Anderson .Paak, Kamasi Washington, Thundercat, Rhye, Fleet Foxes, Bon Iver, Dirty Projectors, Jacob Collier, Vulfpeck, Cory Henry, etc. Like Quincy Jones said, the Beatles were the worst musicians. Sgt Pepper is overrated. It was made by a band that was falling apart, losing interest and focus, guided by an older producer who wanted to record traditional English orchestral music. This video is typical old people complaining, stuck in the past. [Edited 12/20/18 22:26pm] | |
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"more great music than ever"?? WTF? You've got to be kidding me?? Sure, there is good music out there and there always will be, but your statement is completely false and so is Quincy's statement about the Beatles. Their music will love forever whether the haters like it or not. The music you've mentioned above will die out quickly. | |
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Good night, sweet Prince | 7 June 1958 - 21 April 2016
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modified said: There is more great music than ever; Hiatus Kaiyote, Anderson .Paak, Kamasi Washington, Thundercat, Rhye, Fleet Foxes, Bon Iver, Dirty Projectors, Jacob Collier, Vulfpeck, Cory Henry, etc. Like Quincy Jones said, the Beatles were the worst musicians. Sgt Pepper is overrated. It was made by a band that was falling apart, losing interest and focus, guided by an older producer who wanted to record traditional English orchestral music. This video is typical old people complaining, stuck in the past.
Did you even watch the video? It's more than just "old people complaining"; the dude in the video is actually young but once again, I assume you didn't even watch it.
[Edited 12/20/18 22:26pm] And no, there's just more access to music than ever. Not more great music. [Edited 12/21/18 8:14am] | |
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I prefer to "live in the past" when it comes to music.Most of today's music is garbage.
As for Quincy Jones...he says alot of stupid things these days old age has made him crazy,lol
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Pop music is and what it's always been. It's geared and marketed to a 13 year old girl. And you know what? These kids out here LOVE it. Every generation always disses the music that comes after them, me included. But like the Dr GC so succinctly says, whatever the older folks hate...that's gonna be the next thang. | |
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modified said: There is more great music than ever; Hiatus Kaiyote, Anderson .Paak, Kamasi Washington, Thundercat, Rhye, Fleet Foxes, Bon Iver, Dirty Projectors, Jacob Collier, Vulfpeck, Cory Henry, etc. Like Quincy Jones said, the Beatles were the worst musicians. Sgt Pepper is overrated. It was made by a band that was falling apart, losing interest and focus, guided by an older producer who wanted to record traditional English orchestral music. This video is typical old people complaining, stuck in the past. [Edited 12/20/18 22:26pm] Agreed. So many more people creating music. Young people never had so many tools a their disposal. That goes for filmmaking and a lot of other professions too. | |
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mrwiggles said: Pop music is and what it's always been. It's geared and marketed to a 13 year old girl. And you know what? These kids out here LOVE it. Every generation always disses the music that comes after them, me included. But like the Dr GC so succinctly says, whatever the older folks hate...that's gonna be the next thang. I don't get how these "music today sucks" stories get by with comparisons of artists like the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Who, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, Jefferson Airplane, and the Yardbirds with obvious pop artists like Justin Bieber, Katy Perry, Taylor Swift, Miley Cyrus, Ariana Grande, and Ed Sheeran. Outside of the Beatles and maybe the Stones, none of those other artists were considered mainstream at that time. That's showing a musical bias. There were plenty of crappy pop songs and crappy pop artists in the 1960's and the reason we don't hear much if anything about them now is because they were crap. For every "Hey Jude", "Sympathy for the Devil", or "Purple Haze", you had stuff like "Louie Louie", "Wolly Bully", "Sugar Sugar", "96 Tears", or most of Herman’s Hermits' discography. Sure, it's okay to complain about Max Martin and the Millennial whoop, but how is that any different from Phil Spector and his wall of sound in the 1960's, Giorgio Moroder's disco sound or the LA soft rock sound of the 1970's, or the Stock Aiken Waterman sounds of the mid to late 1980's? Every generation has its own sound and rhythm,and this Millennial whoop is this generation's musical signature. | |
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mrwiggles said: Pop music is and what it's always been. It's geared and marketed to a 13 year old girl. And you know what? These kids out here LOVE it. Every generation always disses the music that comes after them, me included. But like the Dr GC so succinctly says, whatever the older folks hate...that's gonna be the next thang. Exactly. it’s about the “genre” there new classical music, new jazz music, new experimental music. Pop music has always been about the lowest common denominator. When the Beatles tried more adventurous music, it did not resonate as well with the masses. | |
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Destiny does not agree:
All you others say Hell Yea!! | |
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So great, that I have never heard of a single one you named. | |
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Music is subjective, of course, but I sure can't name 1/20th as many good artists who are out there today vs. any decade from the '50's through the 80's. | |
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Dude makes a lot of factual statements but at the end of the day, the music biz is run by a bunch of nonmusicians accountant types whose greed factor and list of minimum talent producers/dj's have worked in concert 2 suck the life out of music. The public has been bombbarded with nonsense and don't even know it.
It's not unlike everything else in society. Only a small percentage of the public....say 5%, is aware. FOOLS multiply when WISE Men & Women are silent. | |
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My generation's music was better than yours aside. I think they make some pretty valid points here. They do a good job of breaking down the science to it. I always felt the best, most authentic musical expressions to be found off the charts anyway. Underground. | |
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Here we go a-fucking-gain.
A Cardi or Tekashi would have had to compete with authentic artists on a more level field and would have been blown out of the water. Now the hype machine favors fake artists who are much cheaper to produce much like reality shows are cheaper to produce than TV shows with professional actors. We live in a fake era where even the head of state is a reality show star....wtf do you expect?
As I keep saying until I am blue in the face, the public are the only ones who can stop the race to the bottom. The suits will keep feeding us shit as long as they can get away with it.
There are original young artists out there who don't get any recognition. Luke James Ro James BJ the Chicago Kid Jacob Banks The Internet
Just to name a few.
Prince was already an international superstar and a legend with an army of fans by the time he went to war with the industry but these young emerging artists don't have that kind of leverage. All they have is us so I suggest you get busy if you're sick of the brain rot. Prince, in you I found a kindred spirit...Rest In Paradise. | |
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Oopsie! Forgot to say that people should NOT comment without watching the video because it's very important to understand what's happening instead of just assuming it's an old person stuck in the past. That is not what this is. Prince, in you I found a kindred spirit...Rest In Paradise. | |
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Same. Live a little longer, and one sees just exactly how bad the music has become. As for Quincy, I tend to cut him some slack. He's not exactly crazy, but he is at that old age where he gives zeros effs about holding his tongue. The old can get ornery and refuse to have the same level of tact than they did when they were coming along | |
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I didn't see the vid, but IMHO, the reason is because computers and music software got damn cheap, and millions of young people got hold of them. Kind of, removed the need to actually, you know, sing, or....learn to play an instrument. Today's music doesn't sound...bad, it sounds specifically like it's computer generated. Just my opinion. | |
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That was kinda the point. Go listen to those listed artists and report back if I am wrong. Start here, a song that is better than anything produced in the 1960s, 70s or 80s - play loud, headphones: Also try King Krule, Moses Sumney, BadBadNotGood, Ibeyi, Little Dragon, Lorde, Kelela, Julia Holter, James Blake, Passion Pit, Solange, Frank Ocean, Alabama Shakes, etc. etc.
Thank you. Exactly. And it is not just tools in the technical sense. Kids now have so much information at their fingertips. They explore, go deep into music history, theory and technique - see scales and modes, circle of fifths on YouTube, etc. There is a serious jazz renaissance going on that is also feeding into pop music. Acts like Knower and Dirty Loops can superficially sound like millennial whoop crap, but are actually virtuoso musicians. For the record, I am old myself, pushing 50. I hope I still have a few decades in me. Why whould you want to live in the past? Prince's main problem was that he lost connection with what was happening sometime in the late 1980s, when he moved into Paisley Park. Consider this; why was Prince not a central figure in the neo-soul movement, for example? [Edited 12/29/18 5:12am] | |
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Why don't people support local artists? All you others say Hell Yea!! | |
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Exactly. | |
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Yeah, well around the time ...Baby One More Time came out, which many feel started the 'overcommercialization of music, hip hop was simulatneously just as commercial.
Who's to blame for that???? | |
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I'll tell you what music is awful, the backing music all the way through his video. | |
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babynoz said: Here we go a-fucking-gain.
A Cardi or Tekashi would have had to compete with authentic artists on a more level field and would have been blown out of the water. Now the hype machine favors fake artists who are much cheaper to produce much like reality shows are cheaper to produce than TV shows with professional actors. We live in a fake era where even the head of state is a reality show star....wtf do you expect?
As I keep saying until I am blue in the face, the public are the only ones who can stop the race to the bottom. The suits will keep feeding us shit as long as they can get away with it.
There are original young artists out there who don't get any recognition. Luke James Ro James BJ the Chicago Kid Jacob Banks The Internet
Just to name a few.
Prince was already an international superstar and a legend with an army of fans by the time he went to war with the industry but these young emerging artists don't have that kind of leverage. All they have is us so I suggest you get busy if you're sick of the brain rot. I'll say this though: quite a few one-hit wonders back then were actually talented in their own right. They just lacked the star power and/or identity to keep the ball rolling. That or in most cases, nothing else they made came close to being as good as that one song they're known for. [Edited 1/2/19 5:20am] | |
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When i first saw this video ...a couple of years ago or so, the first thing that came to mind was how simple-minded it was and narrow-minded it was. All popular music has found a sound and milked it to death Ragtime Country Disco Grunge Soul Techno On and on. | |
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[Edited 1/12/19 16:29pm] The Colors R brighter, the Bond is much tighter
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