Music these days...

[CCU Norman]

there's tons of good music out there, you just have to know how to find it. hint: it's not on your car radio

https://youtu.be/A0Gs4xGw1Eg

Yeah...

[cardiackat88.]

Music today isn't as god awful as anything from 2001-2008 time frame.

I absolutely hate the 2000's hits on Sirius.

Maybe it's because it reminds me of being a teen all over again, but regardless the tunes absolutely suck ass to me.

[SmootsDaddy89]

Music has hit an all time low. I can appreciate popular music from literally every decade over the past century except for this one.

Of course there are exceptions, but in general the music reflects the youth of today, and it isn't good news. Materialistic, shallow, entitled.

lol okay grandpa zod

[rayzor]

Music has hit an all time low. I can appreciate popular music from literally every decade over the past century except for this one.

Of course there are exceptions, but in general the music reflects the youth of today, and it isn't good news. Materialistic, shallow, entitled.

i see some of the same things in the shows my daughter likes to watch that are considered kids shows. lots of over-the-top sass and disrespect. we've really started cutting back on what she's allowed to watch and trying to get her outside as much as possible. unfortunately i know that most of her friends at school have the same kind of attitudes and they are feeding off of each other....and she's only in 2nd grade.

 

but then, at least as far as music goes, the 80's had a lot of shallowness to them coming out of the disco drenched late 70s. and then they moved to a lot of emo crap in the 90s because they mostly had parents that were self-absorbed and more interested in their careers and their happiness than their kids. when those kids became parents i think they may have inherited their parents self-absorbing tendencies, but tried to overcompensate by spoiling their kids and created the shallow and entitled kids we see today.

 

i do think that there is a break in that and quite a few people are trying to go back to more what we might consider more traditional family settings or at least trying to get back to a simpler more family focused type of life. it's going to be hard because i think we've all gotten addicted to getting more and more stuff.

 

[Jeremy Igo]

I think you are right. Current day is a lot like the 80s. Excess, narcissism, materialism. It was garbage music then and again now.

The good news is something new and better will come along soon and squash it.... Hopefully.

[Kramerica]

tame impala and mac demarco have been two of my favorites recently

You heard that new track "Eventually" yet? Hot damn.

[pantherphan96]

[Jangler]

Oh yeah Rihanna is a singer. I thought she just showed her tits off for a living.

[Liminy]

And please nobody come in here telling me rap or electronic sh*t is "music." It's not. 

 

Please tell me how you can say electronic music is not music, this is a piece of electronic music.

[FuFuLamePoo]

you guys are listening to the wrong rap.... check this out by sosa

 

[Darth Biscuit]

Oh yeah Rihanna is a singer. I thought she just showed her tits off for a living.

 

That is ok too.

[Captroop]

I think you are right. Current day is a lot like the 80s. Excess, narcissism, materialism. It was garbage music then and again now.

The good news is something new and better will come along soon and squash it.... Hopefully.

 

Ugh, I'm not sure I want to experience the digital age's answer to "grunge."

[frash.exe]

Cracked nails the social phenomena of old people saying everything sucks nowadays, including music.

http://www.cracked.com/article_19722_7-scientific-reasons-youll-turn-out-just-like-your-parents.html

Oh and if you have a shred of understanding about music theory, Rihanna is terrible no matter what age group you are a part of.

[Lumps]

Sigh...what ever happened to dedicating years into an instrument or voice lessons?

Now all you need is a computer and a 'beat' and the masses eat it up. What a joke. It's comical to see any argument of talent in this thread.

Music is not the same as performing/acting, music has nothing to do with visual aesthetics or 'hotness'; I think many of you are confused.

Many rappers, RB, and pop music today are performers/actors/computer producers not musicians.