• What happened to real music?
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https://youtu.be/0TsqH5eDQV4
ya ayy yaa aayy. basically today's lyrics.
I don't think I've ever heard anybody sing so out of tune.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRQt8npURgk If I hear a DJ play this over a track one more fucking time I'm smashing his shit to pieces. They can't even do it in time.
Anyone who honestly thinks this should pull up the Billboard Hot 100 for the year they were born in (or any older year) and see how much fucking shit there is on there. For example, I was born in 1991. And while that list has some good songs on it (Everybody Dance Now, Unbelievable, Losing My Religion and I Touch Myself), it also has Bryan Adams's worst song straight at #1, the plague on music that is Vanilla Ice and a metric fuckton of artists and songs who've had no staying power whatsoever.
Id honestly argue that todays popular music is miles better than it was a decade or two ago. That stuff was borderline unlistenable.
Thing is in everytime up until lately pop music has been varied by genre. As much as linken park, papa roach and greenday were not technically pop, they almost certainly were in hindsight, they made charts and they were on TV every 2 minutes dependent on the channel. I don't think this happens anymore. I might be wrong, but all I hear is Afrikaan beats over generic pop singer #watever
I dont know what you mean by Afrikaan beats, but certainly theres been a little too much of the same electronic, trap influenced pop on every song. But if you compare Despacito to Humble to Thats What I Like to Redbone theres really very little that overlaps between all three.
Dude I swear Australians leave the vagina funny
We leave the vagina shitposting, just like Americans leave the vagina shooting someone
It's absolutely true that this is part of why this perception is common, but I really feel that music has been dumbed down since the '20s. In 1920, music was really jazzy and clever. I love to write music, and that old stuff speaks to me. Nowadays, we've just got shitty 3 chord tricks all over the place and it's a shame.
pop music has become more effective at appealing to what the general populace wants if you want more complex songwriting you'll have to look outside pop music
There are some really clever pop tunes though, like Lone Digger.
It's not so much what they want, it's just that you can't really go wrong with it. They are using inherently catchy rhythms, beats and vague all encompassing lyrics to make money. They literally can't go wrong with it. It's just a business. Of course there are still singer song writers, but the majority of the headliners in pop these days were chosen because they can sing. They are then given songs written by professional pop song writers to distribute for profit. It's not so much an art as it is just an industry pumping out product they know will work.
yeah what happened to the real music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7MBGpZK9wg
am I having a stroke
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i mean this really isn't any different than pop in the past. I mean shit, the sheet-music industry operated like that, most songs were garbage and written really quickly. but it was topical and relevent so people bought the sheet music.
That's implying Americans can even fit through a vagina.
In an age where radio is becoming less important and streaming apps take the front stage, how can anybody complain about what popular music sounds like. I can literally listen to anything I want, in any genre, anytime I want.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKOY94ANXEg
Back when "real music" was being made they would play real instruments. Everyone played their instruments differently and gave themselves a unique sound, but today with digital tracks being the norm (plus autotune) a lot of songs just sound the same now. Not to say all modern music is shit theres still some good songs being made.
The only music that matters
I've completely forgotten about these atrocities
There's good shit and then there's the mountains of shit that we'll forget about even a year later.
Strangely in a way thats how it feels. Most pop music or anything that is considered mainstream is pretty much this colossal mountain of bullshit and overused/reused garbage. Meanwhile underneath this mountain is caves and networks of small societies of different genres of music that are all connected and/or play off each other/learn from one another. Like they're small, but they're thriving underneath this mountain.
There's plenty of musicians now that I would consider doing important genre defining work, and still have the go to back it up and go beyond. Its just there is such a mountain of music now. I don't even pay attention to mainstream music because I have chillhop/synthwave/vaporwave/heavy metal.
Fucking amazing Ontopic: pop music is all about drops that lead to terrible annoying beats, loads of ay oh yo sup, saying each others names every damn time, singing in bursts like Aguilera does in her newish song, and best of all, gloating about having a lamborghini and this and that and everyone else is jealous of you and so on and so forth. Good examples of this: Minaj and her copycat stripper version, Cardi B. And fuck Maroon 5. FUCK maroon 5.
I think a lot of it has to do with the trash music disappearing over time. If a song has been popular for 30, 40, or 50 years, then it's probably pretty good. A lot of the bad stuff from those eras has already disappeared into history. On the other hand, the modern era hasn't been around long enough for that to happen. So we still have all the trash piled up on the good stuff. Give it time and the quality will last while the rest will go away.
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