Why contemporary music is such garbage (singer, band, indie, genre)
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It's those damn Scandinavians and their evil plot to take over the world by boring everybody to death! I knew it had to be something like that, it all sounds like the same bland, primitive, uninspired, no talent, regurgitated carp with a few different notes here and there. It sounds like a kid who just got music software and is cranking out the prepackaged simplistic ya ya wa wa tunes with a few notes switched around. The music is as phony and artificial as the performers themselves.
Contemporary mainstream pop music is garbage. There is plenty of great music available that is not on the charts. Why do we need to define music of an era by what's on the charts? Particularly in this day and age.
It's those damn Scandinavians and their evil plot to take over the world by boring everybody to death! I knew it had to be something like that, it all sounds like the same bland, primitive, uninspired, no talent, regurgitated carp with a few different notes here and there. It sounds like a kid who just got music software and is cranking out the prepackaged simplistic ya ya wa wa tunes with a few notes switched around. The music is as phony and artificial as the performers themselves.
That's nothing new.
Anyway, best to check out the "new music 2015" thread. You'll find a lot of new music you won't hear on Top 40 countdowns
Contemporary mainstream pop music is garbage. There is plenty of great music available that is not on the charts. Why do we need to define music of an era by what's on the charts? Particularly in this day and age.
Mainstream, not underground, is usually what typifies an era. I don't listen to Katy Perry or Beyonce or Justin Bieber. I'd like to be able to turn on the radio and find good current music, like I did in the 80s and 90s.
And here I was thinking it was that the music is performed by people who can't sing, play instruments, or write their own stuff in the first place.
There is plenty of good music out there. Turn off the radio and go on Spotify, YouTube, or any place where indies and unknowns are trying to promote their work or gain exposure. Join a group on Facebook devoted to finding new music in the genre you like. Look at who your musically inclined buddies "like" and check out their pages. Look at bands you like and see who has side projects, and look at the musicians in the side projects. Go on Instagram and find a lesser known band or musician, or an individual musician in a band you like, follow them, make a few comments, and pretty soon you'll have indies and talented yet-unknowns following you because they stalk other groups' accounts in the same genre and follow other groups' followers because they want the follow back. I found a couple of great bands that way. Or, a couple of great bands found me that way. There is nothing as cool as watching an indie band you started following when they only had about 200 followers grow more popular.
And remember: The music industry isn't what it was. It is really, really expensive to be your own person and promote your own work, so for the love of all that is holy, when you find a good indie or yet-unknown, BUY their work. Find it on social media, but then pay them for it. They can't promote themselves and they can't tour if they don't earn money from their music and merchandise to fund it all.
Mainstream, not underground, is usually what typifies an era. I don't listen to Katy Perry or Beyonce or Justin Bieber. I'd like to be able to turn on the radio and find good current music, like I did in the 80s and 90s.
I think people not really into music define musical eras by what's popular in music. I also think radio has undergone a huge change as well. Radio has become more narrowly defined in most cities. Only in cities with thriving music scenes like Austin, Seattle and Portland do you find stations that program outside of the charts. With the many and varied ways to consume music today. Why do people still turn to broadcast radio for it?
Contemporary mainstream pop music is garbage. There is plenty of great music available that is not on the charts. Why do we need to define music of an era by what's on the charts? Particularly in this day and age.
Yep, if you look for it you'll find it. Al Kooper has a blog called New Music for Old People which he also thinks older people who say "there's no good music nowadays" are full of crap. For those of you who don't know Al Kooper, he's a 71 year old producer and musician who has worked with the likes of Bob Dylan, Mike Bloomfield, Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Rolling Stones, Cream, etc and has appeared on hundreds of albums dating back to the 60s. He also used to teach at Berklee College of Music.
Each installment, he details a number of new songs, mainly by contemporary artists, that he thinks are worth a listen. Though it hasn't updated since April, still worth a look.
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