Popular New Music is AWFUL Today.

[mai72]

We went from the Beatles, Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, The Who, Michael Jackson, Iron Maiden, Metallica, Nirvana, Sound Garden, 2pac, Biggie, NAS, OutKast too....

The Island Boys and Lil Xan.

What happened?

[The nameless Gamer]

Times changed. Much like the parents of the 70s and 80s associated rock and metal music with decadence and fallout of their value system. "I used to be with IT, then they changed what IT was. Now what I'm with isn't IT and what's IT is weird and scary to me. It'll happen to you..." (Abe Simpson).

[Sixtyfivekills]

Originally posted by mai72:

Lil Xan.

Dude how many "Lil"s are out there?

[Polverrati]

You're a little late if you think people still listen to Island Boys, now people just make fun of them for being weird degenerates.

[Xero_Daxter]

Not gonna lie but the song “Butter” by “BTS” goes hard.

“Smooth like butter. Like criminal undercover. Gon’ pop like trouble breaking into your heart like that!”

[captainwiseass]

The time of the Beatles was also the time of the Dave Clark Five. The time of Michael Jackson was also the time of Tiffany. The time of Pearl Jam was also the time of Hootie and the Blowfish. Bad music will always be with you.

[crunchyfrog]

You should watch Rick Beato on Youtube- a well respected engineer, producer and songwriter who has had hit records.

He lays it out as to why this is. And it's basically dow to corporations now owning all the labels. This means that they sign up artists on 360 deals (which are dodgy as hell) and this means that they get little control over what to do.

They're product and in the most cases, they get to sing a piece that some writer has written who they've never met. So needles to say it lacks any passion as you don't BELIEVE the singer, and is formulaic to the nth degree.

So it all sounds the same, all has a very banal and broing emote and is just disinteresting.

But that doesn't mean there isn't goo dmusic out there - you just have to dig deeper.

For myself, I count myself lucky. I grew up through the 1970s glame rock, prog rock, punk, SKA, post punk, new romantic, indie darlings like the Smiths and the Stone Roses, then acid house and rave and so on.

Not only that but I don't listen to radio or TV and havent' done in decades. I get my sources from live stuff and working at music festivals and word of mouth.

Working at Glastonbury every year gives me access to over 1000 artists each time. You can't lose.

[jamal69]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKfvkIAdyAY&ab_channel=TVFilthyFrank

[mai72]

Originally posted by captainwiseass:

The time of the Beatles was also the time of the Dave Clark Five. The time of Michael Jackson was also the time of Tiffany. The time of Pearl Jam was also the time of Hootie and the Blowfish. Bad music will always be with you.

Good point. Tiffany was awful. I guess the main difference is we didn't have the internet back then. Take for example the Island boys. They are doing weird stuff now just for internet clout and money. If they didn't have the internet they would had probably faded out much more quickly. They have ZERO talent.

[mai72]

Originally posted by Corthmic:

You're a little late if you think people still listen to Island Boys, now people just make fun of them for being weird degenerates.

My friends son was showing me their stuff. It is awful.

[Rumpelcrutchskin]

Originally posted by Sixtyfivekills:

Originally posted by mai72:

Lil Xan.

Dude how many "Lil"s are out there?

over 9000

[jamal69]

If some rappers name starts with "Lil" you know he is the rapper

[🍋 Lemonfed 🍋]

Iron maiden still made very decent albums in the recent years.

I even remember buying a Dream Theather album on google play music just before it's announced it's closure.

[IWUZHERE]

Commercialism sucked the market dry. Risk doesn't make money, and risk is the only way you get new and good music along with bad music. Can't have one without the other.

[TWPanda77]

Is that you grandpa?

[Angel]

It's a sign of (mental) age in terms of music periods preferences. Most people prefer an era of music and think anything else is "awful" but it's just subjectivity.

I knew a friend that said the same thing but likes Beatles and Rolling Stones even though he wasn't even born in that era.