What's happening to our music?

[chaosyoshimage]

Kids these days and their terrible music, back in my day we...blah blah blah...and I had to walk 15 miles in the snow...*snore*

 

[The Wykydtron]

Maybe i should try to get up to date with music so i can actually contribute to music threads...

Uhh i suppose Three Inches of Blood isn't relevant anymore i suppose? I still like them anyway, for what it's worth.

Nope, video game music continues to have the overwhelming advantage of being tied to "that awesome thing i did"


Singlehandedly defeating an entire near full health enemy team with an absurdly low health character has never had a better soundtrack. I'll be damned if i ever pull that off again though.

 

[CrazyGirl17]

I blame the popularity of tween pop, sub-par pop and the like...

 

[brainslurper]

All these damn beatles and rolling stones ITS JUST NOISE I TELL YA, YUNG FOLK HAVE NO TASTE IN MUSIC I TELL YA

 

[ToxicOranges]

Well, it's not particularly fair to say I like dubstep and that's a new and original genre (Been around since 2002 or so, people), but yeah, I'm happy with music at the moment, except for:

RAPPERS - godammit, someone please explain why this shit is appealing? Generally, you can't hear what they are actually saying, especially now that some rappers have the cheek to take dubstep tracks and rap over them - and then call it "grime". Yes, it is grime. It is literally grime. Can rappers all please go away? They are ruining all pop songs (Not all pop is the spawn of Satan, but my god, rappers are making it unbearable) and now they are creeping into my beloved dubstep

 

[repeating integers]

Well, an "OUR" implies a "WE".
"Who is WE?" Then becomes my next question...
The beauty of the modern age is that we access to so very much, that it becomes far too easy to drown in a sea of garbage. Now that we no longer need a "mainstream", nor truly have one, why not seek out the best?
http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2011/12/limited-edition-justin-bieber-vinyl/
This article explains my position better.
I suppose, if I were upset with the state of my favorite music, I'd merely go on the hunt for something better...

What a brilliant article. Favourited.

OT: What that article said. Charts are misleading. Also, today's music has given me Muse.



<3

 

[similar.squirrel]

People keep listening to the bits they don't like and whining about the experience, mainly.

 

[Hip Priest]

The chart music of every decade has tended to be dominated by derivative, commercial trash. At the same time, innovative and thoughtful music has always existed in great volume - you just needed to know where and how to look for it. Our era is no different.

 

[Fishyash]

Also I strongly disagree with you about dubstep, I fucking love the genera with all my heart. there's so much energy in dubstep that you simply don't get from other music, when a good dubstep artist drops the bass YOU FEEL IT and I love that.

Wait a second, I didn't catch from his post that he didn't like dubstep...

He said there's some dubstep he can't handle too well. There's a good chance that you have some dubstep tracks that you don't like. I don't understand how anyone can like every single track within a genre, hell you said it yourself "...when a GOOD dubstep artist etc.."

*end random attempt to argue with someone on the internet*

@OP: Yes something is happening to music. No it is not bad. Music has become more and more accessible in different ways. What's becoming popular matters less and less, unless you mainly care about money. Looking for the music you want has never been easier in this glorious era of internet.

EDIT: There's a link on the word OP? You learn something new every day (the @ symbol is kool).

 

[Sarmos]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rR94NDIfGmA&list=FLRWJpnzvosi77VGFj6blyww&index=1&feature=plpp_video

Getting way more kickass. This has to be one of the best intrumental peices I've heard in years.

 

[thefrizzlefry]

There is good music around, you just have to know where to look.
Also, you mentioned grindcore in your original post, and I don't think you're actually referring to grind. The big mainstream-ish metal subgenre right now is metal/deathcore, which is very, very different from grind. Grindcore is stuff like Pig Destroyer, early Carcass, Discordance Axis and Brutal Truth. Metal/deathcore is Bring Me The Horizon, Oceano, The Acacia Strain and that sort of thing, so yeah.

 

[Something Amyss]

This question can be summed up with the phrase "Kids these days."

For added pleasure, throw in "get off my lawn."

Listen, why spend your time policing other people's tastes? Taylor Swift may not be my cup of tea, but unless she kills my father, I don't really have a problem with her.

Music is going to get worse. It's either a function of society degrading or of your age. Scientists are still trying to determine which. Important ones. With lab coats and PHDs and stuff.

And at this point, I'm just going to mention CD Baby. They distribute a lot of smaller or independent acts, have decent audio samples, etc. They even have a search feature which, while no longer as novel as it once was, allows you to type in a band and find artists who sound like a band you already love.

If you want to find new music you like, it's not all that hard. There's probably a TON of other sites you can find like that (Though I've never wanted or needed another one). So even acquisition of new music shouldn't be hard.

Myself, I could probably live off my collection at this point. I've got a ridiculous amount of music, most from CDs I bought in the 90s. Give me the Beatles or Queen or the Who and I'm happy for hours. If I need new music, I can find it. We're in an era of unprecedented access in terms of promotion of music that's not top 40. You want some Johnny Cash-styled country? I bet you can find a ton of it. Or a few hundred pounds, at least.

 

[DarkRyter]

Not enough bass.

Today's music definitely needs way more bass.

 

[Something Amyss]

EDIT: There's a link on the word OP? You learn something new every day (the @ symbol is kool).

You put @ in front of it. @whatever gets linkified. It's actually kind of annoying with the quote feature, but hey, what do I care?

 

[RoBi3.0]

I'm a musician and aspiring music producer and I'm generally not the kind of person who would nitpick at any type of music genre. I'll listen to Faith No More one second, then Tech N9ne the next. However, I'll listen to some of today's punk and pop music and I personally can't say that it appeals to me at all.

I know music is supposed to evolve and it'll never be the same as it was in the past, but are we heading for darker days in our music? The easiest difference to see is probably in country. I know people like Taylor Swift are taking the 'Carter Family' style and running that into the ground, but I don't hear any country stars that sound anything like Conway Twitty, Johnny Cash, or Roy Clark anymore either.

To my utmost chagrin, punk kinda changed for the worst too. The punk that some people show me sound like a weird mixture of boy-band pop and some mutated form of punk. I liked it better when an Acid Punk Rock band like The Offspring dominated the scene, had an undeniably catchy rhythm, and actually kept true to the punk rock genre.

You'll get some changes in other genres as well. The metal genres has screamo and some grindcore bands, rap has Lil Wayne, and then there's some dubstep that I really just can't handle too well. There are plenty of other crappy artists that ruin those and more genres, but I don't want a brain hemorrhage trying to remember people I don't care about.

So tell me what you think, Escapists. What's happening to our music?

Your getting old. lawlz

 

[repeating integers]

Not enough bass.

Today's music definitely needs way more bass.

See: the song I linked (well, video'd) in my previous post here.

 

[xplosive59]

Not enough bass.

Today's music definitely needs way more bass.

Yeah, as a bassist myself its annoying that there are very few good basslines in modern music, go back to the early 70s where prog rock reigned supreme or even the 80s and 90s and my god there are thousands of fantastic basslines, modern bassists just seem to follow the guitar instead of doing there own thing, apart from a few bands like Obscura, BTBAM, Muse (kinda) and Apokefale (very very obscure band).

 

[kittii-chan 300]

I'm terrible at expressing opinions so here's part of an interview with pretty much exactly want to say:

Cannabis Culture: A lot of that passion is lost in the music industry today. Many people aren't following their passions, or even asking themselves what their passions are.

Daron Malakian: Everything is put into a cubicle and sold and marketed a certain way, and we've become a number and a statistic to people who sell Coca-Cola and hamburgers and clothes, or whatever the hell they sell, and music has become one of those things that has fallen into those categories.

System of a Down was playing clubs in the late 90's, and we were playing packed houses, and labels didn't want to sign us. I had people come up to me and say, well, the black people won't understand you, and we can't sell you to the white people because you're Armenian. I've actually had that said to my face! And that just showed me where it's all at. So we've just done it the opposite way.

The way I've approached my song writing has been completely, like, I don't sit there and listen to the radio, and say, hey let's see what's playing on the radio so I can play a song that matches up to that. You know, you shit what you eat. When someone is crying, someone is crying. You can't market that.



And that's what art is, someone showing his or her emotions. So all I've done with my song writing is be honest: cry for real, laugh for real, get angry for real, say things that are honest in the song?and people are listening because everything else they are getting isn't as honest.

CC: The word that comes to mind is regurgitated.

DM: In the 60's, songwriters and musicians were respected as artists. Music has now become separate from art. Music is music and art is art. For god's sakes, they'll call Paris Hilton an artist if she puts out a record. So you know, that's where you are. What happened to the John Lennons, the David Bowies, the musicians that were innovating because they were being motivated to innovate? People respected what they did because they weren't clumped in with Pepsi. Yet.

CC: It had been said that people aren't looking to the politicians for answers anymore; they are looking to musicians. What do you think about that?

DM: I'm not sure the people are looking to anything. There is a war going on, we have troops in Iraq, we have troops in Afghanistan, we have troops going to Lebanon, there is havoc all over the world. My television isn't on often, but for days they talked about the JonBenet murder from ten years ago. It's a distraction from the vital problems we have right now and some people don't see that.

System of a Down just played the Ozzfest for 20,000 people, and when Disturbed was on stage right before us the whole crowd was shouting "USA! USA!" almost like a Nazi chant?no offense to Disturbed?and we would sit there every night and say 'I can't believe these are our fans! They like us too!' I have nothing against the US, but you say Seig Heil, USA, or whatever the hell you say with that kind of propaganda-motivated type of chant?it's just scary to me.

Then we get on stage, and we say our thing, and they cheer for that too. That's why when you say they listen to the musicians, or they listen to art, I'm not sure. I think it's like sheep, and it's wherever they are herded to. I'm not saying that's everyone, I'm just saying it's a big part of this nation.

[sub]for those interested, view full interview here.[/sub]

So basically, music today lacks innovation and passion. They just want you to listen to their music because "It's all about the money, money, money. They just want your money, money, money. They just wanna be 'famous', by ripping off the famous". Also, making people dance. Utilitarianism.

I believe that music should have meaning. A music teacher in my school tells the kids "Just sing the first thing that comes into your head. The lyrics aren't important, they don't mean anything, it's the tune that's gonna make people buy your music."

This way of thinking is what's happening to our music.