Anyone else not 'get' today's music?

[MaydayMalonesGirl]

All of these statements that all new music is bad makes me cry. There is plenty of great new music, most of it just isn't mainstream.

[Mikado]

Originally Posted by MaydayMalonesGirl

All of these statements that all new music is bad makes me cry. There is plenty of great new music, most of it just isn't mainstream.

Well, i believe everyone IS talking about the mainstream music here

[catlover79]

Originally Posted by Mikado

Well, i believe everyone IS talking about the mainstream music here

I know I am. Not only is MOST mainstream music mediocre - everything is all about image, and as several other people mentioned, sex sells. It's terrible that today's kids have such rotten role models.

[Chelsea]

Originally Posted by MaydayMalonesGirl

All of these statements that all new music is bad makes me cry. There is plenty of great new music, most of it just isn't mainstream.

And having spent a year at a college radio station, I'm not that fond of the non-mainstream stuff myself either. It's not that great either, it's just a different kind of bad. The mainstream stuff is just offensive, while the non-mainstream stuff by and large just clashes with my musical tastes. (In the wrong hands, the electric guitar is one of the most offensive instruments around, IMO)

Funny story: Ever hear the song Fergalicious? (And I'm being VERY nice in calling THAT a song). Anyway, there was a song by an indie group that was in our rotation at the college station. And despite the music director's pained insistence otherwise, anyone with an IQ over three could tell that the song was more or less identical in all but the actual lyrics. Every time that song played we must have gotten at least a half-dozen to dozen (depending on time of day) calls asking why we were playing "that Fergie crap". I eventually got to the point where I openly refused to play the song during my shift (such grandstanding being perfectly OK for a college station relying on volunteers - but don't try this at home folks) and would play something *I* liked whenever the other song was due up.

[Zebra 3]

Originally Posted by FactoryGirl

As far as slump in record sales, you can thank illegal downloaders, not the quality of music.

I wouldn't listen to most of today's "music" even if it came with free beer and a table dance.

[waichingliu81]

my younger sister prefers music which is sung, as opposed to people rapping because she cannot stand it. well, that's her anyway. as i mentioned i like all genres of music but i do not like today's era of music. the 00s was probably when music went downhill and thus in 2007, it hasn't improved one bit

[Mikado]

Originally Posted by Zebra 3

I wouldn't listen to most of today's "music" even if it came with free beer and a table dance.

[EmoJoe]

i think people tend to think of 2000s music and automatically think "zomg rap!" which isn't true. yeah, there's a lot of rap, but to be honest, pure RAP (as in no singing, just rapping) is actually kind of fizzling out and isn't as popular as it was in the earlier part of this decade. R&B is big now, not rap, and edgy pop (or pop/rock) is really big now. there's still some rap but not as much as there was even as little as 4 years ago. there's a LOT of really, really good mainstream music today, and i'd bet most of you don't even listen to mainstream radio enough to even know half the songs that are big now.

of course there's a lot of ******** songs, but the 60s/70s had their fair share of ******** songs that made no sense as well. the 70s especially liked to have pothead rockers sing songs while they were high that made zero sense.

As far as I know, people back then complained about music, like what my parents used to listen to, according to my dad, his parents hated the music he listened to like The Mamas and the Papas and The Grateful Dead. And he grew up in the '60's and '70's.

of course teens/college age kids are going to be mainly the people who like mainstream music, considering it's GEARED at them. it's been that way forever.

[*InThisMoment*]

People always have said this. The older generation will always prefer music that was big in their day, and think it's of better ''quality''. Heck, even some people closer in my age range feel music from the past is better than today's, but that's just a matter of taste. I used to feel the same way, because I LOVED music from the 50s, 60s and 70s, and I never even gave a chance to current music, but I sure bad mouthed it. However, I love it now. I think people who blab on about how today's music is such garbage are just being close minded. There is alot of great music from talented artists out today that you're never gonna hear because you wanna sit on a high horse and preach about how your taste is better than everyone elses, which is ignorant. I can say this because I was once exactly like that myself, but I've broke away from that and I'm extremely open minded when it comes to music, and listen to practically everything.

[FactoryGirl]

Originally Posted by .:Dorky_W00tage:.

People always have said this. The older generation will always prefer music that was big in their day, and think it's of better ''quality''. Heck, even some people closer in my age range feel music from the past is better than today's, but that's just a matter of taste. I used to feel the same way, because I LOVED music from the 50s, 60s and 70s, and I never even gave a chance to current music, but I sure bad mouthed it. However, I love it now. I think people who blab on about how today's music is such garbage are just being close minded. There is alot of great music from talented artists out today that you're never gonna hear because you wanna sit on a high horse and preach about how your taste is better than everyone elses, which is ignorant. I can say this because I was once exactly like that myself, but I've broke away from that and I'm extremely open minded when it comes to music, and listen to practically everything.

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You and Joe's posts are the best posts on this thread! The people who bitch about 'today's' music being trash are the ones who haven't heard EVERY song played on mainstream radio, they just base their closed minded opnions on a few people like Britney Spears, Beyonce, and 50 Cent. Like they reprensent ALL artists on today.

Trust me, music in the 1950's through the 1970's wasn't Beethoven either! Come on, songs about disco ducks, it's my party and I cry when I want to, and going to hop?

Music back then is NO DIFFERENT then music of today, just music videos, and even then, you can't judge a song based on a video!

[FactoryGirl]

Originally Posted by Zebra 3

I wouldn't listen to most of today's "music" even if it came with free beer and a table dance.

What's your point? My grandparents said the same thing about what my parents were listening to back in the '60's and '70's.

And why was this adressed to me? All I did was correct wrong infomation as why record sales are slumping, it's ILLEGAL downloaders, NOT the quality of music NOR the opinion of closed minded people who haven't gave all music a chance and just based their opinion on a FEW singers and a music video.

[*InThisMoment*]

Originally Posted by FactoryGirl

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You and Joe's posts are the best posts on this thread! The people who bitch about 'today's' music being trash are the ones who haven't heard EVERY song played on mainstream radio, they just base their closed minded opnions on a few people like Britney Spears, Beyonce, and 50 Cent. Like they reprensent ALL artists on today.

Trust me, music in the 1950's through the 1970's was Beethoven either! Come on, songs about disco ducks, it's my party and I cry when I want to, and going to hop?

Music back then is NO DIFFERENT then music of today, just music videos, and even then, you can't judge a song based on a video!

Thank you. You are exactly right. It's extremely ignorant to base your opinion on ALL of today's music on a couple of artists you aren't fond of. There is so much talent out there today, you just have to try and discover it. Not all older music is extremely deep and amazing, either, like you said. People just choose to be close minded about it and point out the negatives, like Britney Spears and those that aren't really talented singers with great lyrical content and act like that's all today's mainstream music has to offer.

[MaydayMalonesGirl]

Originally Posted by Seth

And having spent a year at a college radio station, I'm not that fond of the non-mainstream stuff myself either. It's not that great either, it's just a different kind of bad. The mainstream stuff is just offensive, while the non-mainstream stuff by and large just clashes with my musical tastes. (In the wrong hands, the electric guitar is one of the most offensive instruments around, IMO)

I understand what you're saying. There are a lot of 'indie' bands out there that are both crappy and/or completely boring.

I'm just a loser and have had excess amounts of time to sift through the garbage and find some legitimately great non-mainstream music. *coughokkervilriver*

[EmoJoe]

Originally Posted by FactoryGirl

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You and Joe's posts are the best posts on this thread! The people who bitch about 'today's' music being trash are the ones who haven't heard EVERY song played on mainstream radio, they just base their closed minded opnions on a few people like Britney Spears, Beyonce, and 50 Cent. Like they reprensent ALL artists on today.

Trust me, music in the 1950's through the 1970's wasn't Beethoven either! Come on, songs about disco ducks, it's my party and I cry when I want to, and going to hop?

Music back then is NO DIFFERENT then music of today, just music videos, and even then, you can't judge a song based on a video!

Thank you. You are exactly right. It's extremely ignorant to base your opinion on ALL of today's music on a couple of artists you aren't fond of. There is so much talent out there today, you just have to try and discover it. Not all older music is extremely deep and amazing, either, like you said. People just choose to be close minded about it and point out the negatives, like Britney Spears and those that aren't really talented singers with great lyrical content and act like that's all today's mainstream music has to offer.

these posts are 100% how i feel on this situation. it just really ticks me off how people are so close-minded about music sometimes and feel the need to bash today's music whenever they can. i used to be pretty close-minded about music too, i used to hate anything rap and hip hop just because it was rap and hip hop, but i actually like a lot of it now. (i'm still not the biggest rap fan but i do like R&B stuff). even still, if you don't like rap, that hardly removes all chances of your enjoyment in today's music.

[FactoryGirl]

Originally Posted by .:Dorky_W00tage:.

Thank you. You are exactly right. It's extremely ignorant to base your opinion on ALL of today's music on a couple of artists you aren't fond of. There is so much talent out there today, you just have to try and discover it. Not all older music is extremely deep and amazing, either, like you said. People just choose to be close minded about it and point out the negatives, like Britney Spears and those that aren't really talented singers with great lyrical content and act like that's all today's mainstream music has to offer.

It's amazing how quickly the older generation forgot about their parents or anyone else older "dissing" their music. When my dad was growing up in the '60's and '70's, his parents hated his music, he was listening to these so called legendary perfomers like The Mamas and the Papas and Janis Joplin(I love Janis!!) and said that wasn't (gasp!) quality music and it was full of s**t.

9 times out of 10, the older generation based their dislike for today's music based on a few acts. My father did that to us when we were listening to Pearl Jam, Prince(my dad hated Prince!), Hole, and techno music. They also based it on music videos . I keep telling people you can't based a SONG on a music video for christ sakes! Fergie, Britney, and 50 Cent, don't rep all of these artists today. They need to expand their horizons, they are some really cool artists on there like Justin Timberlake(who could sing circles around Donny Osmond!!), Pink, Tegan and Sara, Lily Allen, and Justice.