Music What Is Happening To Music?

[Mockingbird]

I have always been a schizophrenic music listener, in the car I just click thru stations like a mad man. I hate commercials, and I find that man of the stations lay the same things over and over. Strangely I will hear stuff from time to time that i really like, and then it is stuck in my head. Over all though today's music seems very simple. I liked when artist would try new things but then no one lasts on the top forever. When I get tired of the radio I have my MP3 player. I find many new artists on youtube and then just listen to what I like awhile. I try to upload a few new songs a couple times a month so I am not bored.

 

[crazymomma]

Today's music just stinks. If an artist doesn't fit the cookie cutter, they don't get signed. If I want to listen to country, I want to hear twang and not some bubblegum snapping suburbanite version of it. If I'm listening to rock, I want to feel like rocking out and flipping the finger to convention. It's all an amalgamation now and I refuse to support it with my purchases.

I'm always looking for new bands that are true to the roots of whatever genre they happen to be. Those are the ones that get my money. The mainstream music industry can dry up for all I care.

 

[c9h2ua]

That's so true. I hate listening to the music nowadays. They are just boring, especially K-pop ( not offensive).
I liking listening to the song of 80s or 90s more, because they have a better melody and lyric.
Do you guys like them too?

 

[mssbishi]

I think the pop music today is rubbish too. However, my parents thought the music I listened to as a teeenager was rubbish. Their parents thought the music they listened to was rubbish...see a pattern? So my thoughts might not necessarily be a judgement as such, more of fan indicator that I am getting old!

 

[ChangingSkies]

Nothing at all has happened to music. Mainstream, commercial music you hear on the radio has always sounded generic and formulaic and change takes a lot of time. The only reason we don't realise that is because time has weeded out the majority of the generic songs that weren't trailblazers.

 

[kris]

I think the OP is right that a lot of the music sounds the same. A lot of it has the same basic tempo and beat. The basic theme of the songs is often the same too. I do enjoy some country music as I feel it at least tells a story. But that is only really the Country Pop type songs.

 

[Jason76]

It could be the case that a lot of good music isn't getting mass exposure. Of course, I've heard other arguments. One being that free music downloads have destroyed the incentive for good musicians to try harder.