For me, if I ask for an unpopular opinion and you say something about pineapple on pizza I’m going to assume you have no personality.
For me, if I ask for an unpopular opinion and you say something about pineapple on pizza I’m going to assume you have no personality.
Modern music is fine.
I think one of the least self-aware thoughts someone can express - and that I hear often - is that “music now isn’t as good as it was in <decade of my youth>”, then they’ll go on to name the top five acts of that decade. Go back in time and listen to the track that was at number 53 in the charts on some boring week in mid-August in that decade and it’ll almost certainly be absolutely tepid mediocrepeice made by a forgotten artist and no better than the song that was playing on the radio that caused the comment in the first place. By the time that Josephine was coaxed onto that Flying Machine pop music had long been established as a commercial product to be produced at industrial scales. No-one alive today grew up in a generation that had exclusive access to “real music”, and if anyone tries to use that phrase to describe Motown in particular you have my permission to stab them in their eyes with a spoon.
This and people complaining when they only listen to the top 50 songs. "Nobody makes good insert genera here anymore! They do, their just below 1k listens. The insane amount of talent below the 100k and even the 1k listens mark is insane and I often find myself going “how the fuck does this perfect to me song only have 1k listens!”
You’re completely right, there’s an insane amount of incredible music made in the last 20 years, it’s just not popular. You can’t find it on the radio or in the charts, you have to find it like a hidden treasure.
This is why I love radio stations like BBC Radio 6. While they enforce a John Peel styled A-B-C playlist, their DJs are still given a lot of freedom to play their own choices. Without exception they’re all well-informed and enthusiastic music fans with a love of specific genres and, more often than not, musicians or producers themselves.
Meh. I don’t have this. Just feels like modern music hasn’t evolved since 2008. I’ve listened to annoying pop songs from back then, and annoying pop songs from today, and it’s just… The same.
There’s a distinct difference between 80s, 90s, and 00s music that also seems to follow what technology is capable of. That has grown stagnant.
But then hey, my favourite genres are jazz and funk. Those can get wildly creative with limitations.
Motown is real music.
Real music, made by real people, at the very least. Is all of it great music? By no means, but I’ve got piles of 45s that prove it is real.
Unless… I’m not real, that is. A distinct possibility, to be sure.