Yeah. I fear the worst for folks like Adele; she may be the most popular talented artist since 2008, but still hasn't gotten as much attention lately as J. Lo or Kim Kardashian. Maybe because Adele's music isn't “hard bubblegum pop-techno” like the latter two. Nor is the music of Japan's Mika Nakashima, the most underrated pop singer I've heard.
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"We are in a golden age of music. There will be a time when technology becomes so advanced that we'll rely on it to make music rather than talent. Music will lose its soul." -Freddie Mercury
This is certainly true of modern _mainstream_ music. There’s still plenty of musicians out there who treat music as what it is: an art. Unfortunately, music also happens to be a big business, and so the stuff that sells is the stuff that is manufactured to sell, not the stuff that is composed to sound good.
That's always been the case though, as far as I can tell? Huge chunks of The Beatles' music sounds very same-y to me, but it sold well at the time because they were marketed extremely hard.
Yeah there’s still so many under the radar musicians who actually sound really good. The first I can think of is Sturgill Simpson, but he is starting to gain some popularity after winning a handful of awards.
what happens when music producers feel forced to make music as fast as possible by creating deadlines in order to please the people? They get lazy and repetitive...(just one of the many possible reasons for this)
I think a very likely reason is that it's either out of unwillingness to put in effort or lack of intent, where the melody and harmony aspect of the music aren't well thought out. The ability to compose well and in a timely fashion is another story, where a composer has put in significant effort to train the understanding of tonal music, that kind of speed is impressive. But this music production situation here is from lack of effort, thus composing repetitive and hollow sounding results
Show a 69 Tekashi fan "Highland Laddie", Prinz Von Eugen (fife and drum), Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley, The Beatles, Queen, Lilliburlero, Throat singing, and British military songs. They will say 3 things "Yo this is so much better", "Not cool lyrics" or "Old school". It just shows how rotten is modern stuff. You go against culture and call it modern. For example normalise gays and call it "Modern". Change drinking age and call it "modern". Make shitty music and so much more
@@thedictationofallah WHERE DID HOMOPHOBIA COME INTO THIS WHAT??? I love me some classic alt as much as the next guy but I'm happy being gay is normalised. Mask off.
First thing that popped into my head reading this was the Doom soundtrack, especially the newer games. Those tracks, while maybe not being real "songs" per se, are designed to make you feel like a GOD, and they do a damn good job of it.
It’s more or less mainstream music. Of course there is good music still being produced, but Modern Mainstream music 60 years ago consisted of Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, you get the point.
My dad told me the first time he heard Nothing Else Matters with Metallica. He heard it on the speakers inside a music shop. He walked in and told the person behind the counter: I want this song. He got the black album on a cassette. That proves that songs can be historical good the first time you hear them.
Metallica and all of the rock bands at that time, in my opinion, are the final generation of music that is actually good. Since then music has just gone down hill.
@@michaelskory7188 no, thats not true! Is is true, that on average music has gotten worse, but there are alot of musicians whose music is art today! Just listen to Dream Theater and Death!
@@demianstohr2422 yeah, but look at the mainstream and what is common now, it all sucks. Sure your example is there, but I would say it is few in numbers and harder to find now. Back then, during the time frame I had, it was easier to find better music that is not considered bad.
@@michaelskory7188 yeah honestly it's mostly mainstream stuff that sucks, the usual ones especially; (pop, rap, etc.) there are still passionate musicians doing their best and really good songs still but honestly most of the current stuff is Not worth listening, even less so praising. The mainstream buiseness went soul-less and many songs are principally made for relevancy or cash grab, most don't have a message no more and none seem to have "that thing" that makes music enjoyable.
Lol. I once said the black album was metallicas best album in a vinyl shot (joking). The shop owner thought i was serious and almost lectured my ass till I explained the in justice for all was my fav
Modern music is just about trends rather than longevity , so many popular songs from even 5 to 10 years ago are forgotten because they lack substance but many songs from the 70s,80s,90s, are still remembered to this day
For some reason only pretty people are allowed in entertainment now. As if beauty comes bundled with talent. Musicians, actors, what's next? Only models can make standup comedy ?
Bruh yeah, that's the issue. The songs analysed here are all mainstream music and sure as hell do not represent "all of modern music" lmaooo This video is so flawed in this aspect, it does not at all cover for all the artists that don't create pop, rock and country. And that's the overwhelming majority. Some people are just ignorant enough to generalise an entire generation worth of music 😐
yep thats what i always looked at, small artists. i lean in the rock genre, and there are some new big artists there that are really good and stand out from each other.
@@eituottavuutta9034 this generation of rock music really hits different, and very good but still often times i find it similar and end up skipping over to the ones that are different
I think that schools dropping music education also played a role. Odds are that someone hearing Sgt Pepper for the first time had at least one music appreciation course in high school. As I understand it now, most don't.
@@Garroh Maybe. I know I had a couple in junior high school. When my mother went to high school, one of the graduation requirements was being able to read and sing solfege. I suppose you probably don't know what that is.....
@@Garroh no, I didn't have one in high school. It was in 7th grade. In the same class, where the teacher broke down The Beatles' first hit and why the opening riff to The Beach Boys' California Girls appeals to schoolgirls..... we learned how to play guitar. We were all asked what song we should learn first. At that time I appreciated the simple, bright-sounding guitar in Bob Seger songs and so I raised my hand and said "can we learn Night Moves?" It's simple and kinda fun to play. I was 12 and I will never forget that for 45 minutes each day I got to sit in a chair and strum a guitar while talking about music. It wasn't something I chose; it was mandatory curriculum. It was just as important as English class, Algebra and Chemistry.
As a wise man said, "Everyone can make music, very few can make art.". Edit: I don't know who that wise man is. This quote just came to my mind and i felt like i saw something similar somewhere else.
@toby wong art is a form of expression modern music is not an expression of themselves or other people it is just a copy of other people expressing themselves.
To be honest, this is tragic. Great musical people with great ideas will never be recognized by the major record labels. I guess this is where social media can help, giving these people the attention they deserve
It's also pretty sad, that PoP is basically the only music that you can hear in radio. It's really rare that you hear rock. And talking about other music, like jazz, Bass, Electro and more has no chance or only specific "channels" where you can actually listen to it in public radio. If you don't want to listen to Pop yoilu mostly have to search things up by yourself specifically, which makes it even harder for those artists
Makes me feel really hopeless sometimes... Like the only thing I'm good at in life is music. I know I'm talented. I've released songs in my own little circles, not in public, and people have really enjoyed them, including my most brutally honest friends. I feel like I stand no chance sometimes. Im not 80lbs, I'm not the prettiest girl in the world, and I don't want to make boring old pop music all the time. Im just venting really but this hopelessness is a big contributing factor to many young artists ending their lives, or even worse, giving up music forever.
Not just Social media, record labels are just marketing agencies for bands nowadays, what I can suggest to smaller bands and musicians, depending on where you are sign up for America's got talent or Britain's got talent or even idols, you don't need the record labels anymore all they are good for is signing contracts.
"Why are all the songs about love" "You'll understand when you're older" *gets older* "Ok now I know that it's also about sex but I still don't know why"
Can people not sing about their hobbies? "Ooh everyone can relate to love, so I'll sing about it!" That's fine, but pick another topic PLEASE! I am in love but it's a FUCKING CURSE!
I'm so glad my teenage years were during the 1960s, it's almost impossible to convey just how much pop music dominated culture in those years, I'm just thankful I was a part of it.
The 60s music wasn't as good at the 50's music and that 50's music wasn't good as 40's music. In fact, none of 20th century music was as good as 19th century music and so on.
Right? I honestly hate how people use that term "modern music". It's like, there's more out there then what's on Bill Board? People be talking about how bad music is now but then will never leave their house to see the local shows.
@Just a nether with some cool shaders JJBA music is sooo good. and you're right. I mainly listen to Japanese music now and they're much better than western mainstream music
It feels like the current industry is more interested in marketing artists then making art. BUT The music in other industries has actually not gotten worse, heck Video game music has only gotten better because it embraces orchestral music.
heck yeah have you seen the deltarune chapter 2 soundtrack? toby fox gonna take over the music used in gaming videos although he alr did when he released undertale
You are right about the ''marketing artists '', it seems that its not based on the quality of the music now , more based on how much flesh are you prepared to show
It’s the record companies, not the musicians. The music business has become so corrupted and money hungry that record companies simply do not except songs with actual instruments.
Yes the music industry is very corrupt, but there’s also little craps running around making terrible music. Here’s some names: T69 (I don’t understand his name), Ariana Grande, Beyoncé, Shakira the Superbowl Wh*re, and many other popular chart rappers that are a step away from being in a gang. Also I think I know what I’m taking about, because I play 7 instruments from covers to playing in a classic band with my favorite instrument: the Bb Trumpet.
I myself like electronic music but yes... the music industry is poison. Even for my own favourite style is is shown that the popular sound is everywhere and the great tracks have less room in it. You have to search really well to find something great now. That is also one of the reasons i find the 90’s a better period. There was more diversaty in sounds. Back then it was about being different than the mainstream industry and it sounded often obscure and agressive. Now it sounds like edm with a hard kick. Edm is also something. Some years ago a martin garrix, afro jack or tiesto song was easy to recognise. Nowadays the all sound alike. I hate it.
Well explained what is going in the music industry. I call it fast music just like fast food, it will do it's damage just like fast food does. Part of the reason so many people have a hard time connecting to their inner self and are lost.
This is exactly what I wanted to say. Thank you so much for writing this. I am a 17 year old musician. I wtite music inspired by the beatles, Zeppelin, pink Floyd etc. And I think it's not only the music it's the whole thing of those bands the aura that they have it's something magical and it's connected to the thing that you said about the inner self the thing I've been thinking a lot the last 2 years and reading some comments on RUclips or Instagram makes me really discouraged because people think they know everything and they are always in that "defensive position" For some reason it's the dunning kruger effect and I really don't want to be sucked into all of this.
@@Angelvitog7 Searching for the answers is crucial, which requires time, effort and a lot of questions and answering. That opens up doors to connecting within yourself. Music speaks from our soul, if you are connected to it well, you will be able to write from that depth. But a lot can be said about this, I just keep things straight forward and simple. I have stopped saying much online for that very reason that people misunderstand.
@@Razamusiconline Exactly... The things you are saying right now are the things I've been trying to translate to my self in words and the things I feel. I have read the most insane, dumb, non logical things online and I have noticed people are getting dumber day by day. The thing is I didnt use to take them seriously but I see that they are taking themselves way too seriously and other people as well, so that was the thing that made me anxious but I think I have put myself in something pointless really...
Real music will never die it might not be able to get out to the masses but real music will never never die there's no greater love than the instrument you hold
Agreed, yes you are indeed right my friend! We've all heard real music at some point in our lives so we have something to compare to all this mainstream stuff. Music will never die.
@My Opinion Is Wrong, But no your are being childish and disrespectful, yes legends are others like Prince, Whitney, MJ, James Brown etc they are my role models, but you can't say that Bruno and Beyoncé are bad vocalist. Look at Beyoncé performing she dances and sings without running out of breath.
And add normally before so awful. Because every once in a while, there is a mainstream song that is really good, like "You Need Me, I Don't Need You", a massive middle finger to the music industry.
In the 1960s and 70s, many music labels were controlled by or at least heavily influenced by musicians. By the 1990s, the musicians were forced out of almost all decision making positions within the big labels. The MBAs and CPAs that now run the labels have no idea what constitutes good music or how you market music in general. So instead of good musicians, the labels pick artists that have some gimmick/hook that is easy to market.
I'm a sound engineer with years of experience and have mixed thousands of live performances. Every word you've spoken...is true. I don't abide by their F'ng rules of over compressing the sh't out of the music. I'm not going to cheat my audience. Thank you for sharing this.
Jairous Parker Dynamic range compression is a wonderful tool when used properly. I often have trouble listening to quietly recorded audio books and podcasts while driving my company owned FreightShaker™ down the treacherously bumpy roads of Arkansas. Sometimes compression is warranted. Brickwall limiting to be as loud as the loudest thing ever, however, is difficult to justify.
Also consider that if you squish a song that should be punchy and turn it into a wall of sound, the *feeling* is changed. That punchiness ain't as common nowadays.
Thanos Unreal Choices can be good and bad. The latter are called: mistakes. Choosing to make music and the sounding of music shallow is something I would call a bad choice.
Over-compression is really bad, but as Recycled pointed out, compression has its place. I think that spoken works (like audiobooks) should be compressed. Yes, it can be overdone (and that sounds awful), but if I'm listening to an audiobook, I'm usually in a car, on a plane, in a crowd, or mowing my lawn. I don't want to blow out my ears just so I can hear what's being said. I face a similar problem with classical music on my radio, but the solution there is to have compression be a standard option in car stereos. I absolutly agree that dynamically compressing music requires a light touch. I just think audiobooks sometimes suffer because some newer audio engineers have learned the rule "Compression = Bad" without realizing that the spoken word is different.
I guess I'm immune to the whole brainwashing thing, I work at a store that plays top 40 radio and when they premiered the new addelle song I disliked it the first time, they continued to play it all through the day a countless number of times, and by the end of the of my shift I was ready to take my theft-be-gone baseball bat we kept by the register and smash the radio into hundred pieces.
I think the repeated exposure thing only works if you sort of like it to begin with. I’ll enjoy an Offspring or Adele song the first time, enjoy it more the second and third times, but if it’s a dumbed down, self important Bruno Mars or Meghan Trainor song, or a growly gross sounding metalcore song I can hear it in the background a dozen times and still not get into it.
No, you will be brainwashed if you didnt care about it ij the first place. If you hate but forget about it, and just think of both sides you will be brainwashed that you like it. But if its really a bad somg out of key, and alot of people say its bad, tou wont like it
Im Korean born in 1970s in South Korea. We ALSO have our own bob dylan, joni mitchell, Nina Simone, beatles and Queen in 1970~1980 korean pop music scene. U just dont know that.
The music industry really said "we're just gonna play 3 chords and talk about cash/mating for every song on the radio from now on" and people still bought into it
@@alexandriawallacew9327 All mainstream music throughout the ages has been about selling an image. It's not nearly as common to find mainstream music from any era that actually values itself as a piece of art rather than just being a medium for partying and making nasty music videos lol
But thats the thing, he's complaining about radio hits but kids these days don't listen to the radio. Also there's so many more genres these days than pop and contemporary. I do this his complaints about pop are correct, but saying all music is dead because of this is wrong
@@LannasMissingLink I know. I'm fourteen and basically nobody in my year likes radio. Not many people even listen radio in general. People need to realise that our generation doesn't listen to trash like Justin Beiber and Lil Pump.
@@alienjack6375 THERE IS HOPE FOR THE FUTURE OF MANKIND YET! I applaud you and your generation at less than half my age for realizing the stupidity of my own peer group. BTW, I am very much a black sheep amongst everyone within 10 years of my age, above and below. You actually fall out of that range, and seem quite intelligent compared to my generation at the same age.. I cannot speak for everyone, humans are inherently unique and that uniqueness, the subtle differences, are what both distinguishes people and makes them beautiful. But for the most part, I felt as if I was growing up with cave men when I was your age. I can list many who are similar in that aspect, and many who fall into my sweeping generalizations at the same time... The people who mindlessly listen to modern pop seem like damn zombies when they just turn on the radio and listen to the same (I counted them) 12 songs which THE RADIO STATIONS play on repeat 24 hours per day (Yes, I have been awake for long enough periods to notice this, don't ask.. and it was not my choice of music when in a crowd of females). BTW, I love the zombie genre of fiction, no offense against actual zombies..
Martin Meisenbacher I think what’s good about my generation is that radio doesn’t restrict me from finding music thanks to the internet and streaming platforms. That might be why my mates music taste is just better in general compared to previous generations.
@@alienjack6375 Lil' Pump's and Bieber's success has to stem from somewhere tho... I get what you are saying tho. I'm 24 and i have not voluntarily listened to a cumulative 4 hours of radio in the last decade.
6:59 "What if I also told you that the vast majority of chart-topping music in the past 20 years was written by just two people. [...] And you wondered why everything sounds the same."
The problem is most people only listen to what's on the radio. There is sooooo much amazing music out there being created right now. Incredible, soulful, complex, genre-breaking stuff from phenomenal musicians and producers. Yet most people rely on being spoon-fed, and then complain that "wah music bad now" and "boohoo back in my day...". If you want good music, why not take a little time and effort to discover it, because it's there. Lots of it. The industry just doesn't want you listening to it, and that ain't gonna change.
Surveys show that people listen to the same songs on their Spotify and Pandora streams that get played the most on the radio. So the popular music actually is popular. Radio isn't the problem. The industry has a problem, though. They're making less money because of streaming. But that's probably a different issue than the quality of music today.
Back before the 21st century, music actually mattered and was meant to make you feel something. It was real, organic. Nowadays it’s just a bunch of corporate, feel-good, disgusting, meaningless bullshit that the so called “artists” didn’t even write, just so some 13 year-old girl can shake her ass to it. I’m looking at you, Taylor Swift, Miley Sirus, Justin Bieber, ALL OF K-POP, etc. air all sounds exactly the same, and 90% of the music is some trap beat, no real guitars, drums, or bass. Even a lot of rap and hip hop (which I think is way more poetic and cool) is similar to an extent, because you can’t really say to yourself “hey, I wonder who played piano, or drums”. Of course, there is great genuine talent out there, like ren, for example, but it’s hard for real artists to get any recognition or finance off of the music industry, because of the trend right now of plastic, manufactured pop. Anyway, it really was better in the old days, well, at least for music.
3 minutes and 34 seconds into this video I have to agree. I've been watching videos of millennials, checking out music of the 50s, 60s and 70s. And they love the music but one of the things that I noticed that the men and women. Listening to these songs will get Goosebumps. When there are horns strings, chello's in violence playing. And they stop and go, what is this? What's happening to me? Why am I getting Goosebumps? And it is because of the nuances of classical instruments in pop music. And with song sung by Tom Jones and bill mildly and Bobby Hatfield of the righteous brothers, the women are saying. Why don't we have songs like these today? Romance is dead as well as the music ... today!
An incredibly insightful comment. The best of Classical ,Jazz, Blues, and the singer song wrighter erra. Will not be bested by this new stuff some are calling music . It's just noise. EVEN THOUGH IM 70 YEARS I STILL LOVE TO GO TO A NIGHT CLUB. But nowadays it's difficult to find a bar with great music 🎶 :(
After losing money on big artists in the 90's, the record industry doesn't leave anything to chance and all the music formulated to sell. The same crap is in the movies too.
It's in everything: TV, food, cars, videogames, movies like you said, and so on.. Of course not all of them are bad, but the majority are forced only to make quick money and that just makes it worse.
It was a combination of things. Yes, music was easy to copy, but the biggest issue were established artists wanting VERY large upfront contracts for new albums and then they didn't sell well. Madonna had a notoriously horrible album in the mid 90's, though she was paid a crap ton to make it.
At least the Movie Industry pretends they care about quality (aka the Oscars). On the Grammy they just get Madonna and Britney Spears to kiss. Or have Miley Cyrus humps someone lags and then give an award away to the biggest untalented hack they can find. They don't even try to be pretentious and try give award to a "song with a message".
An old friend once said, "The light of a candle is alive, it's a living light. In the other hand, the light of a bulb is dead, it's a dead light". The same can be said about music.
Fox not anymore dumb than you are but, I was just sorta joking with what I said there. Even I sometimes caught myself listening to some of the gayest music in the world. For example J-Pop. Some of them are actually pretty good. Ha. Excuse my not so good grammar by the way. :p
There’s amazing music out there still and music is not dead you just won’t find it amongst celebrities or chart toppers. So many independent artists are slept on.
This is the biggest flaw in most "Music is getting worse" arguments. They focus on the most popular music, and compare it to the most defining music from the past, when the most defining music for an era is almost never the most popular music. The most listened song in the year 1970 was "In the summertime" by Mungo Jerry. Nowadays? The songs people chose to remember were Let It Be, I'll Be There, No Sugar Tonight, War, ABC, etc. Songs that do a lot more impressive things musically and are more memorable. The most listened album in 1970? Bridge Over Troubled Water by Simon & Garfunkle. What do we remember nowadays? Paranoid, All Things Must Pass, Let it Be, (Again) American Beauty, Layla, and Moondance. Which are also albums that do a lot more musically In the same way kids nowadays have no idea who Mungo Jerry is but can hum to at least one Jackson 5 song, I think in 50 years we're going to forget about Ed Sheeran and Adele and only keep the most memorable music from this era. I mean, I definitely haven't heard Despacito or Roxanne in a long while What's the most memorable music going to be? We'll have to wait and find out!
Music isn't dead in its core. That's why we still have pieces like Partita in Eight Voices. Music is being buried alive but the mass of lifeless concrete today's "big bands" are.
That's what punk,oi and Ska fans have been saying since the 70s.I listen to a lot music that can't be found on RUclips or if you can it has 17 views. Because variety is the spice of life.
True. Imo we actually live in a golden era of music making, where getting into producing music is more accessible then ever before. There are so many new artists that pump out really really good music that just get slept on. The real question should be: why is popular music so awful?
Also, video game OST composers like Mick Gordon, Toby Fox, and Martin O'Donnell create a different kind of music than pop, but they do an excellent job. Mick Gordon is almost synonymous with DOOM, and Toby Fox not only composed for his games, but also did the coding and created a lovable game.
I'd pick video game musics and soundtrack over mainstream music any day. Music from Sonic, Mario, Zelda, Minecraft etc will be infinite times better than Billboard top 100.
When I graduated high school in 2001, I considered going to school for audio engineering and pursuing a career in the recording industry. Really glad I decided against that path, as I probably would have ended up leaping in front of a train.
You would have had your soul sucked out in the music touring industry. I've had offers, but I'm glad I stayed home and just worked the shows as a local union hand.
To some extent, yes and no. Of course, everything now is electronically made, but I think a lot of us forget the bad music of the past and highlight the good music of a certain era, and rightfully so. 10-years from now, I'll be listening to Kendrick Lamar or Kanye West and not some forgettable bland trap artist. People of the late 80s and early 90s would remember Nirvana and numerous iconic grunge acts rather than the hair metal acts that dominated in the past.
No... POP music is getting worse. I mean, one of the most influential pop artists is Billie Eillish, and she’s not even that good! There is great music, you haven’t found an artist that clicks yet 👍
@@lunardoeseverything5393 My favourite bands are both Japanese. Band-Maid, who play hard rock, and The Let's Go's, who play something like 70s punk - more Ramones, maybe Undertones or The Buzzcocks rather than the Sex Pistols, and both bands are all-female...I don't think I'd ever liked an all-female band before, but they have loads over there, as well as not losing the feeling that music (if not necessarily the musicians) should have some balls.
@@lunardoeseverything5393 not good!? She’s terrible. Tonally, and rhythmically. Yet she appeals to the young and edgy girls, that’s her market. Here is the issue. The markets have shifted because the people changed. A few decades ago, garbage like Reggaeton would never have flown, the market just wasn’t that low. Now? Market is wide and open for it, a sign of a changing demographic with terrible taste.
I have, for decades, described new pop music as factory music. Very rarely do I turn on the radio and when I do it is usually short lived ( unless what is called oldies is on air). I recall over a decade ago purchasing cd versions of a few albums that were years old at the time. Later that day someone asked me why I purchased 'old music'. I laughed and responded: "Good music never gets old." I do listen to and enjoy a lot of new music today none of which are played on the radio. I also listen to and enjoy music from as far back as the 1920's. I have been shocked at how many song I thought were modern original and since discovered were actually written in the 50's, 40's, 30's and even 20's. GOOD MUSIC NEVER GROWS OLD.
19'th century parents : "the music these kids listen to today is trash" Roaring Twenties Parents : "oh these kids today, listening to such awful musics" Baby Boomers parents : "the crap these kids listen to these days. . ." 60's parents : "oh these kids and the music they listen to" . . . . Today's Parents : "we're going to prove scientifically, using modern computers, that what our kids are listening to is indeed crap. . ."
I as a 27 years old man wouldn't be so salty if every music maker gets the same chance as the others to make it big, But the problem is with the music industry gurus and record labels who cheat and rig the system for their own gains, They even scam most of their own artists who feel like a wheel in a machine, Unacceptable don't you think ?
I watched the show "American Idol" a couple years ago. There was an amazingly talented musician named Alejandro who (to me) was obviously WAY better than all the others. He should have been the easy winner. He didnt win of course .The winner was very stereotypical "pretty boy" type.
It's not even "modern music" that's bad - just "modern pop/mainstream music". There is tons of awesome modern music, be it by conventional bands, by circles, from games, from movies, from shows - the world over, be it east or west. It's just the darn pop/mainstream music that's become distilled to an exact science of marketability so darn much that it's turned awful in the process.
They don't take chances anymore because people stopped paying for music and the profit margins became extremely narrow. And this has affected experimentation too. Take Sgt Pepper for instance: putting a 40 piece classical band recording together is hella expensive. Nobody's paying for that these days.
Doesnt diverge from the fact the music that is promote will influence musicians, all the way down to the smaller ones. It is the ripples it causes through music.
Yeah well promotion is expensive. Look at it this way; it's easier and safer to promote a familiar Coke beverage than a complex, locally brewed product that noone knows or have tried before. Noone is forcing us to listen to sh*t like Kardi B but it's just the safer bet to promote her than some local, unknown but brilliant prog. band. And when we're collectively retarded enough to eat it up (Kardi draws tens of thousands to her concerts) and with money drying up in the music business, we'll se less and less unsafe bets by the industry. Boycotting the BS is the only way, but asking for critical thinking in the age of Trump, flat earthers and climate deniers is hopeful at best. Music is f*cked.
Yeah, no prob. A lot of people won't believe it until they hear it for themselves. Edit: did you listen to those all the way through? If so, you're very patient!
It looks like my first comment "disappeared" from RUclips when I logged out, so I'll post it again for anyone else who really wants to see the difference.m.ruclips.net/video/Orvv_OaHhZw/видео.html m.ruclips.net/video/Rmtx9slmodw/видео.html m.ruclips.net/video/IYZ-m66hvpE/видео.html m.ruclips.net/video/wViaVp6miDw/видео.html m.ruclips.net/video/wvFp_D3hPC8/видео.html m.ruclips.net/video/7TndxvtbQAY/видео.html m.ruclips.net/video/-wRAZT34hAQ/видео.html A few of these have backup singers, but the normal singing is removed so you can hear the instruments (or lack thereof) more clearly.
You have to blame rap and hip hop and the growth of computer generated melodies. Lyrics are minimalised often repeating the same basic phrase endlessly. Solution. Look to Japan where groups like Band Maid are writing and performing ever more complex songs performed by mega talented musicians at epic concerts. Music is live and well in Japan.
Modern music is not awful. Modern POPULAR music is awful. There are so many amazing artists out there that do not gain powerful representation. You just have to dig to find them.
People shouldn't have to dig to find good music, which is kind of the point. Artists should be succeeding based on talent rather than being "made" like some kind of product. I've found a few good bands among the garbage out there but if I were someone new to music I wouldn't even know what good music was. You see all these Disney kids become musicians almost like an assembly line. Once one gets too old they pump out another... and another...
People have always had to dig to find good music, that's not new. We just tend to forget how much subjectively bad music there has always been. The music is out there, and with the internet, it's actually easier to find it now then it has ever been.
I Literally Just Pooped My Pants This video is so frighteningly biased and ignorant it hurts. I knew how illegitimate his claims were the moment he randomly decided to start the story of "superior" music with the 1960's which is something people with little command or understanding of music often do. Forget baroque, classical, romance, impressionism, atonal, ragtime, novelty, jazz, blues and begin in the 60's...yeah.
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*Beep, boop, beep. Beep, boop, beep* "Hmm, human music! I like it!" -Jerry Smith
The scary thing is that anyone can be famous if they’re good looking enough. That combined with autotune pretty much pops another star out of the famous factory. Edit: And yes, pretty privilege does exist, because people can be very shallow
That sounds like a cosmic joke. Refining an art to the point that fabrication saturates the field. Even funnier that changing what every song samples from would fix it.
In the same way my nan said to my mum, * that's not music it's just noise. And in the same way my mum said it to me, and I say it to my son.... The the important thing about music is that it is your music it belongs to your generation and you don't want your parents to like it. I personally listen to a lot of 70s and 80s music because that's my eara but christ almighty there was a lot of crap around back then . The moral is its the same now as it was back then
Ha ha. And you forgot repeating absolutely everything. And there are still good rappers that diss mumble rappers. Most of Eminem's album Kamikaze is essentially dissing mumble rappers. The funny thing is that only one person he dissed made a diss track in response. That rapper who responded to Eminem was Machine Gun Kelly, who says he isn't a mumble rapper and also dissed Eminem a few times before Kamikaze was released.
Rappers have always rapped about money, drugs, women, violence. Fuck you complaining about? Complain about the music being shit instead, then I'm with you.
Thank you for covering this! I used to song write and slowly gave it up because what I continually heard was not how my music sounded. The music machine is a bully, but this video is really inspiring and freeing. Love your channel!
And even then you can get techno sounds that sound good and aren't compressed to shit Some people have found ways to get unusual sounds out of ordinary things, i saw a guy making techno using nothing but a big set of PVC pipes and his goddamn sandals And infact i heard the sound for the star wars blaster came from striking a long cable with something like a wrench Pop is just a big disgrace to music no matter what you put next to it nowadays
I really can’t handle that mumble rap junk… “like surely your lyrics can’t be that bad that you have to mumble them” (reads lyrics) yeah just keep it that way I like it like that.
I've seen countless people instantly skip a song with the most beautiful melody I've ever heard within 2 seconds because it didn't start with the actual beautifully well crafted part of the song
I miss the music that started with instruments and with in the first 6 cords you knew what song it was and get excited and turn the volume all the way up in anticipation of when the vocals started to belt out.
When I listen to a new song, I usually wait until the end of the first chorus to see if I like it. Mind you, there are also songs where I’m one second in and I know I like it, like The Weeknd’s “Hardest to Love”
I’m not sure whether music as a whole was actually better or if we’re only remembering the timeless ones. Just because a song is popular at a given time doesn’t mean it won’t disappear into obscurity in the future.
One thing I always wondered about. These pop stars we have today, are labelled as superstars and icons and the greatest musical artists of our generation, and mostly because their music gets the most air time on radio stations. But who decides what gets the most plays? Are there any real point to have Charts shows on radios these days? Or is it just which record company pays the most to promote their cash cow, and keep the illusion going?
This, and many, many different barriers for independent artists to be heard or recognized for their accomplishments. They are purposely kept down to prop up the big corporations. Just an example, is how Tom Macdonald (completely independent) was treated when he started being successful enough to top the charts: ruclips.net/video/nT828uv8zSw/видео.html ruclips.net/video/FIpiTjUIMEg/видео.html
Modern music is all about brain washing. Look at the masses, plugged into the same garbage, watch the youth next to you in a car who playes rap, he sings it, he memorizes it...he gets the lyrics deep down inside of him and he is a disrespectful human being..ask any adult who knows him
I'm not a fan of modern music but surprisingly enough what gets marketed now is done in a similar way to how it was done 30 or even 40 years ago. I regularly go through charts from the 80s and dead set there was a lot of crap in there then as well, and there are great songs that never charted but are now the absolute classics of today.
Im wondering, others than many modern music in which are not as good, or just very bad nowadays, do you think we have any ... "good" ... modern music ? Like, in the last 5 or 10 years for example ? Surely, there are still some good or event great music out of all of them ... right ??
I find most modern music utterly forgettable. For example, there is a song by Harry Styles called 'Satellite'. The music video is highly emotional, brings me to tears. But the song itself, ... gone. I wouldn't know it without the accompanying video. And there is another song by Lewis Capaldi, with the video about an old man and a dog. I don't even know the name of the song, I'll have to look it up, ... ... ... It is called 'Wish You The Best'. Again, video awesome, song,... what song? There is one artist that I really do remember though, Courtney Hadwin. She has a highly emotional song called 'Call Me Back'. She pours her heart and soul into her vocals. With lyrics like "I used to call you up at 4am, just to hear the sound of your voice", and "I'm never going to lose your number, just so that I can hear your voice" or words to that effect. Another emotional one is called 'Breakable', with lyrics like ""I'm strong enough to tell you I'm feeling weak", and "I don't want to love you and lose myself again, because I'm Breakable, and it takes too long to heal". Powerful lyrics. Even her fun, high energy songs, 'That Girl Don't Live Here' is filled with metaphors about growing up from the girl she was on AGT, to the young woman she is now. And her latest song for Halloween 'Monsters', even though it is a fun, Rock song, it is about mental disorders, schizophrenia, multi-personality disorder,... and the like, with lyrics like "I’m a little bit lonely but I’m never alone, surrounded by myself when there’s nobody home" and "I’m afraid of myself every time I see the face in the mirror staring back at me, I don’t care how long it takes I gotta keep the monsters away". There are some other new songs that I can remember by other artists, but it is very few, and far between. Most of them are just to generic and bland to be memorable.
You know it's bad when the Dark Ages, when everyone was dumb , barbaric, and uneducated, make better music than the most technologically advanced age in human history...
2021: Roman poetry comes back 2022: Dubstep makes return 2023: ... and that's it. There was no more music from that point on. The last song was played on Jan 15. 2023 at 14:21 EST.
Yeah me and my dad listen only to country but my step sister is obsessed with Taylor Swift the sellout that she is I think her music is garbage and should be tossed into a pit of fire
As a musician I'm open minded to old and new music, however it would be nice if the newer artists would at least integrate some real instruments in with all the electronics.
I don't remember the context any more, but I heard an old violinist who said, that the strings of a violin is not attached to the bridge, but to your heart. Made so much sense.
Oh, and for a killer mandolin piece: Let Your Fingers Do The Walking (Sort Sol's 1993 4th studio album Glamourpuss): ruclips.net/video/xrDDjPtA-fA/видео.html The song was used as the main love theme of Nattevagten - the original Danish version of the horror/thriller 1997 movie Night Watch.
New pop music is just easy. Why do you think Gwen Stephani went from playing rock to pop? Its easier to not have to think when making music. Also you don't even have to sing to be famous anymore. You can be a DJ. I remember when a DJ was mostly on the radio and sometimes at parties. Now you have groups of thousands that go see DJ's like they're fucking pop stars when all they do is play records.
Every generation asks the same question. Pop culture reflects the people and the rebellion of youth. The Beatles infuriated the crooner-WWII generation, Jimi Hendrix offended the Beatles lovers, etc. I imagine the same happened 4000 years ago and will happen forever. Lyrics reflect the education and vocabulary of the youth at the time. Today. kids do not read, do not read poetry, have brief attention spans, use text instead of long phone calls and conversations. Today, the opportunity for breakthroughs in music are limited to what makes a buck. Listen to guitarist Mancuso today. He is trying to breakthough. He is different, new.
I am an aspiring musician and this issue is my biggest motivator to do better. I just hope I'm still make it despite being "different". Edit: I have not produced any of the music yet. I’m in the writing stage. I have the lyrics down but I’m still figuring out what instruments will do what. I’m taking music theory classes to figure out how to make it sound the best I can. I want to work as an indie artist so I kind of have to figure this out on my own.
a lot of artists are different than what's currently conventional to most people's taste. i am so obsessed with today's indie music because they stray from mainstream and reflect classical sounds and lyricism. lemme know about your work btw
@@reyesfreudenthalpablo8457 i listen to good modern music Im just saying when the generation around me is listening to music with no substance; like mummble rap , i can see its not going anywhere good.
Not only do many songs nowadays sound the same, the entire live music scene has become repetitive. I remember cabarets from the 70's when band members would always tune their guitars by ear before each set. It was a pleasant ritual to observe... sometimes one of them would get carried away and drift off into a riff. It's so phony nowadays to see the band members hide in the corner before a set and tune their guitars with an electronic tuner... many are probably are not even capable of tuning their guitars by ear. Also, from what I've seen, some guitarist in bands nowadays are just pretending to play... using recorded music to play lead....how pathetic is that? The cabaret bands in the 70's and 80's would usually stop between songs, say a few words, have a quick drink, sometimes re-tune their guitars, and occasionally debate with the crowd about what song to do next. Sometimes one member would start a guitar riff and other members would catch up. You can't have spontaneous, original, variety, when you have a laptop in front of you controlling the song order script in your set.
If you think Britney and Beyoncé are bad you should hear what it’s like now. The vocal ability in mainstream music is no longer there. Like they sing the same half octave the whole time
I was about to disagree with Thoughty2, assuming this was another "damn kids, my taste is be'r 'an yours!" video then he said it. He freakin' nailed it and while I do appreciate what kind of techniques modern music tech can enable, it's true that it's all being employed more for soulless profit rather than enjoying the art form! Even indie is now just mostly marketing. Like, big name labels with an indie sub-label? No wonder my friends who are musicians hesitate when big labels approach 'em.
Exactly. There's a famous piece written by Steve Albini called "The Problem With Music". The internet has solved this and has allowed artists to be more independent on their own means.
I grew up with older music from my mom, i was born 2006 and really love anything from 50s to 90s, can't deal with today's music, it just doesn't make me feel the same way
Hey, I know it's a shitty cringe times 100000 comment but I recommend Michael Jackson, Freddie Mercury and Rick Astley for the 50s-90s music. But if you want something a lot more different and still just as good then I recommend Napoleonic music, British Music and Bagpipes. With a few recommended songs, Lilliburlero, French Grenadiers, Highland Laddie, Downfall of Paris, Scotland the Brave, March of the Cameronmen
Bro one of the first major moments I heard a song I liked in the media is when I saw the Mario movie and they used No Sleep Till Brooklyn by the Beastie Boys in the movie, and I flipped out, since they are my favorite music group. Then, weeks later, I go see Gaurdians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3, and the trailer for some Captain Marvel sequel had Intergalactic by them in the trailer, and I flipped out again. THEN, towards the end of the movie in one of the final fight scenes, Star Lord played, you guessed it, No Sleep Till Brooklyn. Those were some of the best experiences I had in movies, because my musoc taste rarely has songs in movies, so that was a big first for me.
Yes, I like metal and when I saw Resident Evil the credits at the end blew my mind Ramnstein, slipknot, crystal method, Marylin Manson Like no pop at all 👌
Stop listening to the radio. Modern technology allows individuals who couldn’t afford studio time 20 years ago to create a masterpiece in their bedrooms and release it on a global scale. Go find the good stuff. There is tons of it. Boycott the mainstream. There’s no reason to bother with it anymore.
I hate most modern stuff that comes on the radio, but theres tons of modern indie music I find on RUclips that I really enjoy. Dark ambient, dungeon synth, symphonic black metal, atmospheric doom metal, visual kei and other weird genres in foreign languages. I also love a lot of modern instrumental video game and tv show soundtracks.
death and black metal are my all time favs, and the only things that i listen to, but now the new pop mainstream shit has ruined it and is now less popular.
radio music is just a bunch of generic pop music but there’s much more than indie music just to enjoy I personally do enjoy listening to gernic pop songs from the 2000~19 bcs once in a while bcs they can be pretty nostalgic and at the end of the day they are very catchy but I’ll rather stick with my own style of music I enjoy and sprinkling in that occasional pop songs
I know I'm rather late, but I've found SO MANY channels on RUclips that just make INCREDIBLY GOOD music. Aviators, Miracle of Sound, Falkkone, and others are my favourite examples. I don't like how things have evolved to the point that the mainstream stuff on the radio is rinse-and-repeat of the same people making the same kind of song over and over, and to find anything decent, you either have to get lucky, or look all over the place. Small independent artists make better music and it's a shame how underappreciated they are.
What really hurts me she is becoming more famous and successful than extremely talented bands like Alter Bridge Shinedown Breaking Benjamin sevendust What's wrong with people today 😢😢😢😢
I guess subconsciously this is why I stick with 60s/70s music. I hear a lot of modern music at work and it hits me how repetitive these songs are. It forces me back to what I consider well-written music.
I like throat singing from the 13th century (There are more songs and artists than batzorig and chinggis khaani), 17th, 18th and 19th century British military music, Napoleonic music, 1880-1930 Gramophone, Freddie Mercury and Michael Jackson. I guess I am a really old Gen Z kid.
Modern songs don't have intros any more either, not even really short ones. Straight into the hook as he said. The young are missing out on so much, no more crazy diamonds to shine on.
Not all young people. For example, I've just turned 14, and pretty much all I listen to is Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Metallica, AC/DC, and Linkin Park (only the Hybrid Theory and Meteora albums).
You can find any song for considerably less than whatever old-timey price it used to be. I'd be rather be in this generation simply because even if I dislike popular genres it takes me five minutes to find whatever I want.
I'm glad I was born in this generation, because I still am able to appreciate older musicians while still having the benefit of the Internet and the like. If anything I wish I was born further into the future
I totally agree with you. Recently I found myself listening to The Queen Is Dead by the Smiths and reflected that there is no modern pop music out there that is as filled with hidden meaning and emotion as that album. Nothing even comes close.
Pop music: dying Music in general: so many new weird genres, experimentation... Maybe people will get bored of the generic pop formula. Maybe this is a phase, and the interesting music that is being created underground will come out again. I hope.
That's why I always hate when indie artists go professional. When they're in the independent phase, they're having fun making music and experimenting. But once you get signed, it's all about pleasing the guys in suits by making what they want you to make them. Creative freedom goes away and it takes the love out of the art. It's one step forward, two steps back.
@@Toongeek45 check out deadmau5, he did the opposite. he became one of the most well known producers with his first, rather mainstreamy first album, well a few of them were others were revolutionary for example faxing berlin he created a completely new style of looking at trance with this track, but as his music progressed throughout his albums, it became more and more melodic and more creative. look at his while 1
Pop music isn't dying. Sure it is changing, but this video is full of shit. The fact is that pop music use to be far less interesting since only a few artists where famous and it was hard to find interesting music. There was far less influence from grass root movements since you needed a record deal to reach out. The record labels in the other hand only went for safe proven records. If there is something you can learn from the history of music then that is that the more advanced our methods of sharing music becomes the faster it evolves. Since then you have far more sources of influence.
This is why I love hard rock and heavy metal music. It kind of keeps the same old fashion style of music. And it usually always different in some way or another.
nah its still sounds the same, it just depends on the sub genre of metal. But if you are going to compare a metal music within its own sub genre, it will sounds like any music within that metal sub genre. Timbre of metal music is always been the same, i mean for example a death metal song will always sounds like a death metal.
@@ian3087 But you have to understand that every heavy metal band usually has there own theme. Powerwolf is all about mythical creatures, and stories like that. Sabaton theme is War. Distrubed theme is mental health and self being. Just to name some of the popular metal bands. My darkest days, there theme is all about sex. Mystic Prophecy, theme is angles and demons. And while the overall sound is the same. The style of instruments are different. The way they are sung are different, the rhythm and beats are all different in there own way. No band sounds the same because there music is revolved around there own theme.
@@ian3087 IDK, if I compare Isengard, Mörk Gryning, Limbonic Art, Windir and Abigor they don't really sound the same, even though they are all black metal bands. I guess it depends whether you want to create ever more subgenres to have neat categories inside of which things sound similar.
I beg to differ in some cases where the only thing that differs is the way the "singer" wrecks his voice along the song. A little bit of emotion here and there is what makes it alive but growling 5 minutes straight is first of all not my taste and secondly it really sounds the same no matter the band - ultimately doing the same like all the pop stuff. I had my closest friend play his favorite music and I patiently listened to it while trying to understand what the deal is. I came to the conclusion that that style of music suffers from the same symptoms as every other genre. Let me explain. The same thing can be seen in electronic music where nowadays everyone uses a specific set of synths and patterns. When i look back at the 90s the songs produced were limited by the synths that were available and yet they managed to produce songs that are unique. Sometimes I think I've heard anything and nothing can give me back the joy I had back then when hearing music - which is kinda depressing if I think about it. The only band that keeps me hooked and surprised to this day is Tool but also they start to divert from inventing new sounds to "upcycling" their sound from the past days into new songs. So, if you just focus on the melody and arrangement you will most likely notice that nowadays almost everything, with very few exceptions, sounds the same no matter the genre. Slapping a new lyric on won't change anything if you consider that the singers are just another instrument in the band.
@@FntX-Video while I agree with you. If it doesn't sound like hard Rick then it's not hard rock. It has to still have the roots of the type of music. If the type of music doesn't have its roots, then no one would know what type of music it is.
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What is really sad is that there are musicians that are talented but are being kept in the dark
Yeah. I fear the worst for folks like Adele; she may be the most popular talented artist since 2008, but still hasn't gotten as much attention lately as J. Lo or Kim Kardashian. Maybe because Adele's music isn't “hard bubblegum pop-techno” like the latter two. Nor is the music of Japan's Mika Nakashima, the most underrated pop singer I've heard.
Well it has more to do with the looks now than the voice
i'd say that it's luck
@@imeakdo7 and depends if you have talent
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True.
@dooder NIGGA!!! 😂
uuhhh what is going on?
And this would sound better
Brahhh 😂😂😂😂
When miley cirus licks a hammer its "art" and "music" when i do it im "drunk" and "have to leave the hardware store"
Thank you, I really needed that laugh! XD
We live in a society...
This needs more likes!
@@mikepatrick5909 hold up....What!??!?!!??!
Yep
This is basically why i listen to smaller music creators a lot , they tend to be more original and creative with the wording, melody, tempo...
Its "basically'' :)
@@ZAND4TSU thanks
@@Mica_105 no problem
@@Mica_105 Can you give me an example of smaller music creator you like to listen that is original, creative with the wording, melody, and tempo?
Great idea sir. I'll listen to small artists too
"We are in a golden age of music. There will be a time when technology becomes so advanced that we'll rely on it to make music rather than talent. Music will lose its soul."
-Freddie Mercury
And wow was he right (and that was 30+ years ago)
"Don't believe everything you read on the internet"
-Abraham Lincoln
"Why don't you suck a fart out of my ass."
-Winston Churchill
“I used to be an adventurer like you, until I took an arrow to the knee.”
"I only poopoo farted for the good of humanity"
-Samuel Hayden
This is certainly true of modern _mainstream_ music. There’s still plenty of musicians out there who treat music as what it is: an art. Unfortunately, music also happens to be a big business, and so the stuff that sells is the stuff that is manufactured to sell, not the stuff that is composed to sound good.
Exactly
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That's always been the case though, as far as I can tell? Huge chunks of The Beatles' music sounds very same-y to me, but it sold well at the time because they were marketed extremely hard.
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If that's the case then you really need to wash your ears out.
Yeah there’s still so many under the radar musicians who actually sound really good. The first I can think of is Sturgill Simpson, but he is starting to gain some popularity after winning a handful of awards.
what happens when music producers feel forced to make music as fast as possible by creating deadlines in order to please the people? They get lazy and repetitive...(just one of the many possible reasons for this)
I think a very likely reason is that it's either out of unwillingness to put in effort or lack of intent, where the melody and harmony aspect of the music aren't well thought out. The ability to compose well and in a timely fashion is another story, where a composer has put in significant effort to train the understanding of tonal music, that kind of speed is impressive. But this music production situation here is from lack of effort, thus composing repetitive and hollow sounding results
Most of it is designed to drag you down. You will notice how good you feel when you finally hear something that is designed to make you feel good.
That definitely explains my taste in songs I.E the old ones my parents love
Show a 69 Tekashi fan "Highland Laddie", Prinz Von Eugen (fife and drum), Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley, The Beatles, Queen, Lilliburlero, Throat singing, and British military songs. They will say 3 things "Yo this is so much better", "Not cool lyrics" or "Old school". It just shows how rotten is modern stuff. You go against culture and call it modern. For example normalise gays and call it "Modern". Change drinking age and call it "modern". Make shitty music and so much more
That’s mostly where EDM comes in
@@thedictationofallah WHERE DID HOMOPHOBIA COME INTO THIS WHAT??? I love me some classic alt as much as the next guy but I'm happy being gay is normalised. Mask off.
First thing that popped into my head reading this was the Doom soundtrack, especially the newer games. Those tracks, while maybe not being real "songs" per se, are designed to make you feel like a GOD, and they do a damn good job of it.
Good music isn't dead, it's just considered underground these days
Exactly. One has to have good taste and uncover good music. For the rest, the cookie-cutter shit is good enough
Therefore I shall stay underground forever. I. Just. Can’t. Stand. The. Radio!!!
It’s more or less mainstream music. Of course there is good music still being produced, but Modern Mainstream music 60 years ago consisted of Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, you get the point.
Exactly. Big studios put out fluff b.s. and the true artists are independents
Could you share some names?
My dad told me the first time he heard Nothing Else Matters with Metallica. He heard it on the speakers inside a music shop. He walked in and told the person behind the counter: I want this song. He got the black album on a cassette.
That proves that songs can be historical good the first time you hear them.
Metallica and all of the rock bands at that time, in my opinion, are the final generation of music that is actually good. Since then music has just gone down hill.
@@michaelskory7188 no, thats not true! Is is true, that on average music has gotten worse, but there are alot of musicians whose music is art today! Just listen to Dream Theater and Death!
@@demianstohr2422 yeah, but look at the mainstream and what is common now, it all sucks. Sure your example is there, but I would say it is few in numbers and harder to find now. Back then, during the time frame I had, it was easier to find better music that is not considered bad.
@@michaelskory7188 yeah honestly it's mostly mainstream stuff that sucks, the usual ones especially; (pop, rap, etc.) there are still passionate musicians doing their best and really good songs still but honestly most of the current stuff is Not worth listening, even less so praising. The mainstream buiseness went soul-less and many songs are principally made for relevancy or cash grab, most don't have a message no more and none seem to have "that thing" that makes music enjoyable.
Lol. I once said the black album was metallicas best album in a vinyl shot (joking). The shop owner thought i was serious and almost lectured my ass till I explained the in justice for all was my fav
Modern music is just about trends rather than longevity , so many popular songs from even 5 to 10 years ago are forgotten because they lack substance but many songs from the 70s,80s,90s, are still remembered to this day
Screw Ed Sheeran, we need to bring back Styx!
legends never die but only wise men knows them, stupid people listen to radio only
@@soulfulfool Except the classic rock station 🎶
Good kid maad city
@@soulfulfool I'm stupid, but that isn't the reason I listen to the radio. The stations I listen to play lot's of music from the '50s to the '80s 😊
"Music was better when ugly people were allowed to sing"
-some random from twitter
Bruh
For some reason only pretty people are allowed in entertainment now. As if beauty comes bundled with talent. Musicians, actors, what's next? Only models can make standup comedy ?
Sounds like something I could have written...
Bruhh
Well it is kinda true
Modern pop music is temporary, but minecraft background music is forever.
Track 11 is a banger
Parasitic a have you thought of contributing to minecraft? they need your input, today.
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That's from warframe lol
Wise talking
It’s so freaking hard to find a decent song nowadays. Thank God for the small artists who create better music than half the popular music industry.
Bruh yeah, that's the issue. The songs analysed here are all mainstream music and sure as hell do not represent "all of modern music" lmaooo
This video is so flawed in this aspect, it does not at all cover for all the artists that don't create pop, rock and country. And that's the overwhelming majority. Some people are just ignorant enough to generalise an entire generation worth of music 😐
yep thats what i always looked at, small artists. i lean in the rock genre, and there are some new big artists there that are really good and stand out from each other.
@@eituottavuutta9034 this generation of rock music really hits different, and very good but still often times i find it similar and end up skipping over to the ones that are different
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Thats why I fell in love with indie music and also garage rock bands lmao
I think that schools dropping music education also played a role. Odds are that someone hearing Sgt Pepper for the first time had at least one music appreciation course in high school. As I understand it now, most don't.
Nobody on the planet has ever had a music appreciation course in high school lol
@@Garroh Maybe. I know I had a couple in junior high school. When my mother went to high school, one of the graduation requirements was being able to read and sing solfege. I suppose you probably don't know what that is.....
@@Garroh no, I didn't have one in high school. It was in 7th grade. In the same class, where the teacher broke down The Beatles' first hit and why the opening riff to The Beach Boys' California Girls appeals to schoolgirls..... we learned how to play guitar. We were all asked what song we should learn first. At that time I appreciated the simple, bright-sounding guitar in Bob Seger songs and so I raised my hand and said "can we learn Night Moves?" It's simple and kinda fun to play. I was 12 and I will never forget that for 45 minutes each day I got to sit in a chair and strum a guitar while talking about music. It wasn't something I chose; it was mandatory curriculum. It was just as important as English class, Algebra and Chemistry.
As a wise man said, "Everyone can make music, very few can make art.".
Edit: I don't know who that wise man is. This quote just came to my mind and i felt like i saw something similar somewhere else.
@toby wong art is a form of expression modern music is not an expression of themselves or other people it is just a copy of other people expressing themselves.
True with modern painting art XD
@toby wong and those are not art.
@toby wong describe me what art is
This is the same message as in ratatouille where "anyone can cook."
To be honest, this is tragic. Great musical people with great ideas will never be recognized by the major record labels. I guess this is where social media can help, giving these people the attention they deserve
dude one of my all time favorite bands royal blood is a great example the band is so good (i guess its more of a duo) but they need more recognition
It's also pretty sad, that PoP is basically the only music that you can hear in radio. It's really rare that you hear rock. And talking about other music, like jazz, Bass, Electro and more has no chance or only specific "channels" where you can actually listen to it in public radio.
If you don't want to listen to Pop yoilu mostly have to search things up by yourself specifically, which makes it even harder for those artists
Makes me feel really hopeless sometimes... Like the only thing I'm good at in life is music. I know I'm talented. I've released songs in my own little circles, not in public, and people have really enjoyed them, including my most brutally honest friends.
I feel like I stand no chance sometimes. Im not 80lbs, I'm not the prettiest girl in the world, and I don't want to make boring old pop music all the time.
Im just venting really but this hopelessness is a big contributing factor to many young artists ending their lives, or even worse, giving up music forever.
@@BattleBunnyAshe Don't give up, keep singing, keep playing, if it brings you joy play because it makes you happy and eventually you will be noticed.
Not just Social media, record labels are just marketing agencies for bands nowadays, what I can suggest to smaller bands and musicians, depending on where you are sign up for America's got talent or Britain's got talent or even idols, you don't need the record labels anymore all they are good for is signing contracts.
"Why are all the songs about love"
"You'll understand when you're older"
*gets older*
"Ok now I know that it's also about sex but I still don't know why"
same. I prefer songs like 1D. Pretty diverse and the songs are pretty different. Apart from all being about love or a crush.
Can people not sing about their hobbies? "Ooh everyone can relate to love, so I'll sing about it!" That's fine, but pick another topic PLEASE! I am in love but it's a FUCKING CURSE!
You’ll understand when you get laid.
Because it is the most relatable thing to make a song about
Everything is about s*x. Even opera. Trust me.
I'm so glad my teenage years were during the 1960s, it's almost impossible to convey just how much pop music dominated culture in those years, I'm just thankful I was a part of it.
The 60s music wasn't as good at the 50's music and that 50's music wasn't good as 40's music. In fact, none of 20th century music was as good as 19th century music and so on.
20's will always have the best music.
Every song was different and its own unique thing.
And as a boy born in 2002, I would recommend music that is not mainstream because I know where the quality is hidden, hint: Not in Spotify.
"back in my day-"
"why is modern MAINSTREAM music so bad?" would be a more accurate title
Yyyyeeeeeesssssssssssssssss
Right? I honestly hate how people use that term "modern music". It's like, there's more out there then what's on Bill Board? People be talking about how bad music is now but then will never leave their house to see the local shows.
@Just a nether with some cool shaders JJBA music is sooo good. and you're right. I mainly listen to Japanese music now and they're much better than western mainstream music
I agree,Face McShooty,you've put your finger on the problem there.
@Just a nether with some cool shaders yes so
STAND PROUD
It feels like the current industry is more interested in marketing artists then making art.
BUT
The music in other industries has actually not gotten worse, heck Video game music has only gotten better because it embraces orchestral music.
They don't care about the songs or the artists, just money.
heck yeah have you seen the deltarune chapter 2 soundtrack? toby fox gonna take over the music used in gaming videos although he alr did when he released undertale
You are right about the ''marketing artists '', it seems that its not based on the quality of the music now , more based on how much flesh are you prepared to show
i hear ya with game music i LOVE genshins music but regular rinse and repeat pop is so annoying
If you haven't listened to the soundtrack to Ace Combat, then you're missing out.
It’s the record companies, not the musicians. The music business has become so corrupted and money hungry that record companies simply do not except songs with actual instruments.
Yes the music industry is very corrupt, but there’s also little craps running around making terrible music. Here’s some names: T69 (I don’t understand his name), Ariana Grande, Beyoncé, Shakira the Superbowl Wh*re, and many other popular chart rappers that are a step away from being in a gang. Also I think I know what I’m taking about, because I play 7 instruments from covers to playing in a classic band with my favorite instrument: the Bb Trumpet.
I myself like electronic music but yes... the music industry is poison. Even for my own favourite style is is shown that the popular sound is everywhere and the great tracks have less room in it. You have to search really well to find something great now.
That is also one of the reasons i find the 90’s a better period. There was more diversaty in sounds.
Back then it was about being different than the mainstream industry and it sounded often obscure and agressive.
Now it sounds like edm with a hard kick.
Edm is also something. Some years ago a martin garrix, afro jack or tiesto song was easy to recognise. Nowadays the all sound alike. I hate it.
Hudson Weaver Well yes of course there is terrible musicians, I just mean that they are the only kind of people that record companies like.
Ohh fck. Its herobrine. He is gonna destroy my world
@@pressaltf4forfreevbucks179 ha. ha. ha.
Well explained what is going in the music industry. I call it fast music just like fast food, it will do it's damage just like fast food does. Part of the reason so many people have a hard time connecting to their inner self and are lost.
This is exactly what I wanted to say. Thank you so much for writing this. I am a 17 year old musician. I wtite music inspired by the beatles, Zeppelin, pink Floyd etc. And I think it's not only the music it's the whole thing of those bands the aura that they have it's something magical and it's connected to the thing that you said about the inner self the thing I've been thinking a lot the last 2 years and reading some comments on RUclips or Instagram makes me really discouraged because people think they know everything and they are always in that "defensive position" For some reason it's the dunning kruger effect and I really don't want to be sucked into all of this.
@@Angelvitog7 Searching for the answers is crucial, which requires time, effort and a lot of questions and answering. That opens up doors to connecting within yourself. Music speaks from our soul, if you are connected to it well, you will be able to write from that depth. But a lot can be said about this, I just keep things straight forward and simple. I have stopped saying much online for that very reason that people misunderstand.
@@Razamusiconline Exactly... The things you are saying right now are the things I've been trying to translate to my self in words and the things I feel. I have read the most insane, dumb, non logical things online and I have noticed people are getting dumber day by day. The thing is I didnt use to take them seriously but I see that they are taking themselves way too seriously and other people as well, so that was the thing that made me anxious but I think I have put myself in something pointless really...
I find today's pop music very educating. Every time I hear it, I go into the other room and read a book.
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Groucho Marx, innit?
😂
LMAO
very true
Real music will never die it might not be able to get out to the masses but real music will never never die there's no greater love than the instrument you hold
Agreed, yes you are indeed right my friend! We've all heard real music at some point in our lives so we have something to compare to all this mainstream stuff. Music will never die.
"a good song never dies" as said by that song if it is good it doesn't die, most of the time.. OK NEVER MIND
As you see, Bruno Mars and Beyoncé are out of the world and still today
@My Opinion Is Wrong, But no your are being childish and disrespectful, yes legends are others like Prince, Whitney, MJ, James Brown etc they are my role models, but you can't say that Bruno and Beyoncé are bad vocalist. Look at Beyoncé performing she dances and sings without running out of breath.
@My Opinion Is Wrong, But okay then I apologize, it's me as a baby now I am 16
Replace "modern" with "mainstream" and you got an accurate title.
Yea
@RubberChuken shut up
@RubberChuken shutup
Queen, The Beatles and Michael Jackson are mainstream tho, no matter how cliché or took for granted they are nowadays
And add normally before so awful. Because every once in a while, there is a mainstream song that is really good, like "You Need Me, I Don't Need You", a massive middle finger to the music industry.
In the 1960s and 70s, many music labels were controlled by or at least heavily influenced by musicians. By the 1990s, the musicians were forced out of almost all decision making positions within the big labels. The MBAs and CPAs that now run the labels have no idea what constitutes good music or how you market music in general. So instead of good musicians, the labels pick artists that have some gimmick/hook that is easy to market.
I'm a sound engineer with years of experience and have mixed thousands of live performances. Every word you've spoken...is true. I don't abide by their F'ng rules of over compressing the sh't out of the music. I'm not going to cheat my audience. Thank you for sharing this.
Jairous Parker Dynamic range compression is a wonderful tool when used properly. I often have trouble listening to quietly recorded audio books and podcasts while driving my company owned FreightShaker™ down the treacherously bumpy roads of Arkansas. Sometimes compression is warranted. Brickwall limiting to be as loud as the loudest thing ever, however, is difficult to justify.
making your music louder isnt a mistake its a choice smartass
Also consider that if you squish a song that should be punchy and turn it into a wall of sound, the *feeling* is changed. That punchiness ain't as common nowadays.
Thanos Unreal
Choices can be good and bad. The latter are called: mistakes.
Choosing to make music and the sounding of music shallow is something I would call a bad choice.
Over-compression is really bad, but as Recycled pointed out, compression has its place. I think that spoken works (like audiobooks) should be compressed. Yes, it can be overdone (and that sounds awful), but if I'm listening to an audiobook, I'm usually in a car, on a plane, in a crowd, or mowing my lawn. I don't want to blow out my ears just so I can hear what's being said.
I face a similar problem with classical music on my radio, but the solution there is to have compression be a standard option in car stereos. I absolutly agree that dynamically compressing music requires a light touch. I just think audiobooks sometimes suffer because some newer audio engineers have learned the rule "Compression = Bad" without realizing that the spoken word is different.
"...Justin Bieber released his hit single, Baby.
...This was generally seen, as a bad move." - The best quote.
....Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Intro quote? hehe
Beiber? I'll just listen my QUAKE[1] cd again.
Justin is NOD.
@Munray Greighton hey, yeah; never thought about it that way
Loooooooool who said that. That was funny I laughed at your comment
I guess I'm immune to the whole brainwashing thing, I work at a store that plays top 40 radio and when they premiered the new addelle song I disliked it the first time, they continued to play it all through the day a countless number of times, and by the end of the of my shift I was ready to take my theft-be-gone baseball bat we kept by the register and smash the radio into hundred pieces.
I think the repeated exposure thing only works if you sort of like it to begin with.
I’ll enjoy an Offspring or Adele song the first time, enjoy it more the second and third times, but if it’s a dumbed down, self important Bruno Mars or Meghan Trainor song, or a growly gross sounding metalcore song I can hear it in the background a dozen times and still not get into it.
I suspect this will be relatable:
ruclips.net/video/l7Vo_t7zbeQ/видео.html
No, you will be brainwashed if you didnt care about it ij the first place. If you hate but forget about it, and just think of both sides you will be brainwashed that you like it. But if its really a bad somg out of key, and alot of people say its bad, tou wont like it
@@theguywhoasked-r7e 🤯🧠
They ve always did that from 60s like the Doobie Brothers Long Train Running and China groove
America and Europe: "We mass produce our music for profit!"
Korea: "Hold my beer"
Korean music is meh.
They are doing the same
@@ehhvalami7320 Yeah, that was my point, Koreans have the most agressively mass produced music industry that I have ever seen in my life.
Im Korean born in 1970s in South Korea. We ALSO have our own bob dylan, joni mitchell, Nina Simone, beatles and Queen in 1970~1980 korean pop music scene. U just dont know that.
@@guitar11diary And you won't let us know their names, right? Who are your Moody Blues? Dae Won Moon?
The music industry really said "we're just gonna play 3 chords and talk about cash/mating for every song on the radio from now on" and people still bought into it
true
thank god you're here so there is hope left for humanity
bro said mating
@@jude4614 yah, ikr. And the ''mating/cash'' is literally has been since in the 50's with elvis presley and the beatles earlier albums.
Let me guess, u quit music after 3 months.
Its so bad because its not about music ,its about selling an image
It seems to be all about the image but it’s not even a good image most of the time in the mainstream it’s soulless and empty
Wel it’s not as though the Beatles weren’t selling an image- Let’s be honest
Alexa Wallace your completely right but atleast they were making good music as well
@@alexandriawallacew9327 All mainstream music throughout the ages has been about selling an image. It's not nearly as common to find mainstream music from any era that actually values itself as a piece of art rather than just being a medium for partying and making nasty music videos lol
And? It’s called being an entertainer. As an artist; you should be intriguing, interesting and entertaining.
Solution: don't listen to the radio, find artists that you like and stick to them
But thats the thing, he's complaining about radio hits but kids these days don't listen to the radio. Also there's so many more genres these days than pop and contemporary. I do this his complaints about pop are correct, but saying all music is dead because of this is wrong
@@LannasMissingLink I know. I'm fourteen and basically nobody in my year likes radio. Not many people even listen radio in general. People need to realise that our generation doesn't listen to trash like Justin Beiber and Lil Pump.
@@alienjack6375 THERE IS HOPE FOR THE FUTURE OF MANKIND YET! I applaud you and your generation at less than half my age for realizing the stupidity of my own peer group. BTW, I am very much a black sheep amongst everyone within 10 years of my age, above and below. You actually fall out of that range, and seem quite intelligent compared to my generation at the same age.. I cannot speak for everyone, humans are inherently unique and that uniqueness, the subtle differences, are what both distinguishes people and makes them beautiful. But for the most part, I felt as if I was growing up with cave men when I was your age. I can list many who are similar in that aspect, and many who fall into my sweeping generalizations at the same time... The people who mindlessly listen to modern pop seem like damn zombies when they just turn on the radio and listen to the same (I counted them) 12 songs which THE RADIO STATIONS play on repeat 24 hours per day (Yes, I have been awake for long enough periods to notice this, don't ask.. and it was not my choice of music when in a crowd of females). BTW, I love the zombie genre of fiction, no offense against actual zombies..
Martin Meisenbacher I think what’s good about my generation is that radio doesn’t restrict me from finding music thanks to the internet and streaming platforms. That might be why my mates music taste is just better in general compared to previous generations.
@@alienjack6375 Lil' Pump's and Bieber's success has to stem from somewhere tho...
I get what you are saying tho. I'm 24 and i have not voluntarily listened to a cumulative 4 hours of radio in the last decade.
6:59 "What if I also told you that the vast majority of chart-topping music in the past 20 years was written by just two people. [...] And you wondered why everything sounds the same."
I'm more fascinated by the fact that the Swedish guy's name is Max Martin and the American guy's name is Lucasz Gottwald.
Haha oh yeah that’s irony
Nice catch! I didn't even notice until seeing your comment
well.. his name's actually Martin Sandberg
@@bromander_ tbh that wouldn’t change anything it still sounds like he wud be the American guy
@pifnbnd maybe but the name Lucasz comes- think -from Polish "Łukasz".
Music was better when "ugly" people were allowed to make it
Good observation.
have to suffer to be a real artist
LOL!!! So true.
Mozart beethoven chopin we're some early sex symbols;)
This is very true
The problem is most people only listen to what's on the radio.
There is sooooo much amazing music out there being created right now. Incredible, soulful, complex, genre-breaking stuff from phenomenal musicians and producers. Yet most people rely on being spoon-fed, and then complain that "wah music bad now" and "boohoo back in my day...".
If you want good music, why not take a little time and effort to discover it, because it's there. Lots of it. The industry just doesn't want you listening to it, and that ain't gonna change.
For real, I only listen to underground artists
That's the issue. The industry has suppressed the different artists. The artists who actually decided to break from the cliched mainstream.
Because it dosnt take much to entertain me and I don’t care what I listen to (unless it’s country)
Surveys show that people listen to the same songs on their Spotify and Pandora streams that get played the most on the radio. So the popular music actually is popular. Radio isn't the problem. The industry has a problem, though. They're making less money because of streaming. But that's probably a different issue than the quality of music today.
@@mr.fahrenheit1675
Then look for them, it's not hard.
Back before the 21st century, music actually mattered and was meant to make you feel something. It was real, organic. Nowadays it’s just a bunch of corporate, feel-good, disgusting, meaningless bullshit that the so called “artists” didn’t even write, just so some 13 year-old girl can shake her ass to it. I’m looking at you, Taylor Swift, Miley Sirus, Justin Bieber, ALL OF K-POP, etc. air all sounds exactly the same, and 90% of the music is some trap beat, no real guitars, drums, or bass. Even a lot of rap and hip hop (which I think is way more poetic and cool) is similar to an extent, because you can’t really say to yourself “hey, I wonder who played piano, or drums”. Of course, there is great genuine talent out there, like ren, for example, but it’s hard for real artists to get any recognition or finance off of the music industry, because of the trend right now of plastic, manufactured pop. Anyway, it really was better in the old days, well, at least for music.
no one:
justin bieber: yummy yummy yummy yummy yummy yummy yummy
grammys: THAT WAS BEAUTIFUL
Exactly and garmmys ignored the weekend and polo g who actually make their own songs who have good and meaningful lyrics
Yummy is literally "Baby 2".
Yummy makes Baby look like Bohemian Rhapsody.
No one:
Shirley temple: LOLIPOP, LOLIPOP, LOLI-LOLI-LOLIPOP
grammy didn't represent thre musical landscape of now
@@hrama17 ik, theyre run by money, it was just a little joke thats all
Nonsense. You only need one thing to make a song successful. More cowbells.
Kiskeya Life indeed.
Good reference
i'll be honest fellas, its a great comment, but It really coulda used a little more cowbell.
No such thing as too much cowbell
WE NEED MORE COWBELL
3 minutes and 34 seconds into this video I have to agree.
I've been watching videos of millennials, checking out music of the 50s, 60s and 70s.
And they love the music but one of the things that I noticed that the men and women. Listening to these songs will get Goosebumps. When there are horns strings, chello's in violence playing. And they stop and go, what is this? What's happening to me? Why am I getting Goosebumps? And it is because of the nuances of classical instruments in pop music. And with song sung by Tom Jones and bill mildly and Bobby Hatfield of the righteous brothers, the women are saying. Why don't we have songs like these today? Romance is dead as well as the music ... today!
This might explain why I'm 18 and I like Percy Faith.
An incredibly insightful comment. The best of Classical ,Jazz, Blues, and the singer song wrighter erra. Will not be bested by this new stuff some are calling music . It's just noise. EVEN THOUGH IM 70 YEARS I STILL LOVE TO GO TO A NIGHT CLUB. But nowadays it's difficult to find a bar with great music 🎶 :(
After losing money on big artists in the 90's, the record industry doesn't leave anything to chance and all the music formulated to sell. The same crap is in the movies too.
It's in everything: TV, food, cars, videogames, movies like you said, and so on.. Of course not all of them are bad, but the majority are forced only to make quick money and that just makes it worse.
Interesting - do you know why they lost money in the 90s? Did the allure of big artists decline or something? Curious.
It was a combination of things. Yes, music was easy to copy, but the biggest issue were established artists wanting VERY large upfront contracts for new albums and then they didn't sell well. Madonna had a notoriously horrible album in the mid 90's, though she was paid a crap ton to make it.
At least the Movie Industry pretends they care about quality (aka the Oscars). On the Grammy they just get Madonna and Britney Spears to kiss. Or have Miley Cyrus humps someone lags and then give an award away to the biggest untalented hack they can find. They don't even try to be pretentious and try give award to a "song with a message".
Nonsense. The labels didn't lose money in the 90s.
“We are evolving just backwards”
- pewdiepie
And this is what it sounds like13:16
Reject humanity, become monke
@@Soronacabricot yes
Never heard this joke before
If you think it was bad 3 years back, we really gotta talk about now.
better wbk stream good days
i think now we are better
@@MinecraftSebsPro music today is shit
@@MinecraftSebsPro yeah no, i think the wap song is worse than anything back then ☹
@terra That's why I gave up on mainstream music. It's been weeks since I last heard this modern shiße
An old friend once said, "The light of a candle is alive, it's a living light. In the other hand, the light of a bulb is dead, it's a dead light". The same can be said about music.
your friend was an idiot lmao
"The more we hear sounds, the more we enjoy them"
Ringtones:
Alarm clocks
Of course, my alarm clock is my own guitar track
@@ej22_gc86 So that you will eventually like it?
i set my ring tone / alarm as boss music that gave me a hard time. latterly making me panic when i hear them XD
Even better ruclips.net/video/WS8lswuDueY/видео.html
Just unplug from popular media and you will start finding good music, it is all around you just listen for it.
@@stephenpaea177, I'm not sure whether you are dumb or you're a troll.
Fox not anymore dumb than you are but, I was just sorta joking with what I said there. Even I sometimes caught myself listening to some of the gayest music in the world. For example J-Pop. Some of them are actually pretty good. Ha.
Excuse my not so good grammar by the way. :p
@@stephenpaea177, it's getting hard to get a joke in the internet dude. There are way too much dumb people, sarcasm is not that clear.
Agreed. go to a park n listen to nature
@@stephenpaea177 Here's so many dumb people & trolls which can look so similar. so its better to ask "ur dumb or troll?"
There’s amazing music out there still and music is not dead you just won’t find it amongst celebrities or chart toppers. So many independent artists are slept on.
This is the biggest flaw in most "Music is getting worse" arguments. They focus on the most popular music, and compare it to the most defining music from the past, when the most defining music for an era is almost never the most popular music.
The most listened song in the year 1970 was "In the summertime" by Mungo Jerry.
Nowadays? The songs people chose to remember were Let It Be, I'll Be There, No Sugar Tonight, War, ABC, etc. Songs that do a lot more impressive things musically and are more memorable.
The most listened album in 1970? Bridge Over Troubled Water by Simon & Garfunkle. What do we remember nowadays? Paranoid, All Things Must Pass, Let it Be, (Again) American Beauty, Layla, and Moondance. Which are also albums that do a lot more musically
In the same way kids nowadays have no idea who Mungo Jerry is but can hum to at least one Jackson 5 song, I think in 50 years we're going to forget about Ed Sheeran and Adele and only keep the most memorable music from this era. I mean, I definitely haven't heard Despacito or Roxanne in a long while
What's the most memorable music going to be? We'll have to wait and find out!
Music isn't dead in its core. That's why we still have pieces like Partita in Eight Voices. Music is being buried alive but the mass of lifeless concrete today's "big bands" are.
That's what punk,oi and Ska fans have been saying since the 70s.I listen to a lot music that can't be found on RUclips or if you can it has 17 views. Because variety is the spice of life.
True. Imo we actually live in a golden era of music making, where getting into producing music is more accessible then ever before. There are so many new artists that pump out really really good music that just get slept on. The real question should be: why is popular music so awful?
Also, video game OST composers like Mick Gordon, Toby Fox, and Martin O'Donnell create a different kind of music than pop, but they do an excellent job. Mick Gordon is almost synonymous with DOOM, and Toby Fox not only composed for his games, but also did the coding and created a lovable game.
I'd pick video game musics and soundtrack over mainstream music any day. Music from Sonic, Mario, Zelda, Minecraft etc will be infinite times better than Billboard top 100.
When I graduated high school in 2001, I considered going to school for audio engineering and pursuing a career in the recording industry. Really glad I decided against that path, as I probably would have ended up leaping in front of a train.
You would have had your soul sucked out in the music touring industry. I've had offers, but I'm glad I stayed home and just worked the shows as a local union hand.
It would have been a nightmare, you dodged a bullet my friend.
@Ryan M Why? Do you think the worst of contemporary pop is all you could mix and record? Why not improve the world by opening your own studio?
@@johnstrawb3521Maybe you're right, but I'm way past it now.
That's how I feel about tech. So glad I didn't get trapped in that world.
The music of yesterday was crafted, the music of today is manufactured.
Perfect analogy. Its all assembly line chinese sweatshop cheap trash.
No
@@NS-ln7tf YES
To some extent, yes and no. Of course, everything now is electronically made, but I think a lot of us forget the bad music of the past and highlight the good music of a certain era, and rightfully so. 10-years from now, I'll be listening to Kendrick Lamar or Kanye West and not some forgettable bland trap artist. People of the late 80s and early 90s would remember Nirvana and numerous iconic grunge acts rather than the hair metal acts that dominated in the past.
The Beatles would have jumped on today's technology. Don't forget that your parents thought the same back then.
Music in the past was to be listened to. Music now, is something to have on in the background while people are doing something else.
Bro youre so right
There’s too much sad truth in this comment.
No... POP music is getting worse.
I mean, one of the most influential pop artists is Billie Eillish, and she’s not even that good!
There is great music, you haven’t found an artist that clicks yet 👍
@@lunardoeseverything5393 My favourite bands are both Japanese. Band-Maid, who play hard rock, and The Let's Go's, who play something like 70s punk - more Ramones, maybe Undertones or The Buzzcocks rather than the Sex Pistols, and both bands are all-female...I don't think I'd ever liked an all-female band before, but they have loads over there, as well as not losing the feeling that music (if not necessarily the musicians) should have some balls.
@@lunardoeseverything5393 not good!?
She’s terrible. Tonally, and rhythmically.
Yet she appeals to the young and edgy girls, that’s her market.
Here is the issue. The markets have shifted because the people changed.
A few decades ago, garbage like Reggaeton would never have flown, the market just wasn’t that low.
Now? Market is wide and open for it, a sign of a changing demographic with terrible taste.
I have, for decades, described new pop music as factory music. Very rarely do I turn on the radio and when I do it is usually short lived ( unless what is called oldies is on air). I recall over a decade ago purchasing cd versions of a few albums that were years old at the time. Later that day someone asked me why I purchased 'old music'. I laughed and responded: "Good music never gets old." I do listen to and enjoy a lot of new music today none of which are played on the radio. I also listen to and enjoy music from as far back as the 1920's. I have been shocked at how many song I thought were modern original and since discovered were actually written in the 50's, 40's, 30's and even 20's. GOOD MUSIC NEVER GROWS OLD.
That is why I only listen to 14th century Gregorian monk chants
hackingenious7 Oh, man! Me too! Have you heard the one that goes "HWWWWOOOOAAAHHHH OHHHHMMMMM HHHHOOOOOOAAAGGHHH"? Such a banger.
That's very soulful music ;)
Me too. Me too.
Eh, those youngsters don't know how to make music. I only listen to caveman growls.
OMMM MONNAA PADME HUMM.
19'th century parents : "the music these kids listen to today is trash"
Roaring Twenties Parents : "oh these kids today, listening to such awful musics"
Baby Boomers parents : "the crap these kids listen to these days. . ."
60's parents : "oh these kids and the music they listen to"
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Today's Parents : "we're going to prove scientifically, using modern computers, that what our kids are listening to is indeed crap. . ."
It's true music lost more and more aura with every generation tho, Until one day it's gonna be like Rick and Morty's Bleep Bloop: Human Music
I as a 27 years old man wouldn't be so salty if every music maker gets the same chance as the others to make it big, But the problem is with the music industry gurus and record labels who cheat and rig the system for their own gains, They even scam most of their own artists who feel like a wheel in a machine, Unacceptable don't you think ?
lol true.
As a kid I can say my peers taste in music is terrible
Welcome to the Machine. Have a Cigar.
I watched the show "American Idol" a couple years ago. There was an amazingly talented musician named Alejandro who (to me) was obviously WAY better than all the others. He should have been the easy winner. He didnt win of course .The winner was very stereotypical "pretty boy" type.
Was his name Alejandro Lima?
Prolly for the best anyway. The careers of those who usually win American Idol or other similar shows don't really take off as expected
Like in School of Rock
@@rturae *probably
Haley Reinhart should have won American Idol.
It's not even "modern music" that's bad - just "modern pop/mainstream music". There is tons of awesome modern music, be it by conventional bands, by circles, from games, from movies, from shows - the world over, be it east or west. It's just the darn pop/mainstream music that's become distilled to an exact science of marketability so darn much that it's turned awful in the process.
The problem is not the music today, it's the music that is promoted..Label only want song that sound the same to be sure that it's gonna sell
Totally right
You’re absolutely right. There are tons of amazing bands out there, but because of risk factor, big labels don’t put them out
They don't take chances anymore because people stopped paying for music and the profit margins became extremely narrow.
And this has affected experimentation too. Take Sgt Pepper for instance: putting a 40 piece classical band recording together is hella expensive. Nobody's paying for that these days.
Doesnt diverge from the fact the music that is promote will influence musicians, all the way down to the smaller ones. It is the ripples it causes through music.
Yeah well promotion is expensive. Look at it this way; it's easier and safer to promote a familiar Coke beverage than a complex, locally brewed product that noone knows or have tried before. Noone is forcing us to listen to sh*t like Kardi B but it's just the safer bet to promote her than some local, unknown but brilliant prog. band. And when we're collectively retarded enough to eat it up (Kardi draws tens of thousands to her concerts) and with money drying up in the music business, we'll se less and less unsafe bets by the industry. Boycotting the BS is the only way, but asking for critical thinking in the age of Trump, flat earthers and climate deniers is hopeful at best. Music is f*cked.
It's very simple to prove it, take the lyrics out of modern music and listen to what's left - nothing!
Delta B thanks to proof my point!
Yeah, no prob. A lot of people won't believe it until they hear it for themselves. Edit: did you listen to those all the way through? If so, you're very patient!
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A few of these have backup singers,
but the normal singing is removed so you can hear the instruments (or lack thereof) more clearly.
Or in the case of Skrillex: remove the butt ugly piercings, and we are left with nothing.
I've heard so many people who say "I love this beat" and I'll ask "what about the lyrics" and they'll say "I don't care about the lyrics".
Musicians from small labels are making extremely ground breaking music even today !
Check out Abstract and his raps
@@kazslanovski6261 sure 🔥
@Mark Stites sure 🔥
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You have to blame rap and hip hop and the growth of computer generated melodies. Lyrics are minimalised often repeating the same basic phrase endlessly. Solution. Look to Japan where groups like Band Maid are writing and performing ever more complex songs performed by mega talented musicians at epic concerts. Music is live and well in Japan.
Modern music is not awful. Modern POPULAR music is awful. There are so many amazing artists out there that do not gain powerful representation. You just have to dig to find them.
yep you're absolutely right, and I'm 60 years old.
People shouldn't have to dig to find good music, which is kind of the point. Artists should be succeeding based on talent rather than being "made" like some kind of product. I've found a few good bands among the garbage out there but if I were someone new to music I wouldn't even know what good music was. You see all these Disney kids become musicians almost like an assembly line. Once one gets too old they pump out another... and another...
I Literally Just Pooped My Pants I agree, I say the same thing
People have always had to dig to find good music, that's not new. We just tend to forget how much subjectively bad music there has always been. The music is out there, and with the internet, it's actually easier to find it now then it has ever been.
I Literally Just Pooped My Pants This video is so frighteningly biased and ignorant it hurts. I knew how illegitimate his claims were the moment he randomly decided to start the story of "superior" music with the 1960's which is something people with little command or understanding of music often do. Forget baroque, classical, romance, impressionism, atonal, ragtime, novelty, jazz, blues and begin in the 60's...yeah.
*Beep, boop, beep. Beep, boop, beep*
"Hmm, human music! I like it!"
-Jerry Smith
This reminds me up when Mr Krabs is talking to the radio guy
ngl human music is actually great
@@eclipse_pvp-gamez5428 just as i thought as well
3 more then nowadays
The scary thing is that anyone can be famous if they’re good looking enough. That combined with autotune pretty much pops another star out of the famous factory.
Edit: And yes, pretty privilege does exist, because people can be very shallow
in 2022 everything is looks
@@00oatmeal 🤣🤣😂😂🤣🤣
humans have become more and more low context
That sounds like a cosmic joke. Refining an art to the point that fabrication saturates the field. Even funnier that changing what every song samples from would fix it.
It's not just looks.. believe me! It's much, much darker...
In the same way my nan said to my mum, * that's not music it's just noise. And in the same way my mum said it to me, and I say it to my son.... The the important thing about music is that it is your music it belongs to your generation and you don't want your parents to like it. I personally listen to a lot of 70s and 80s music because that's my eara but christ almighty there was a lot of crap around back then .
The moral is its the same now as it was back then
No shit. Gucci gang Gucci gang Gucci gang repeated for 2 minutes tells you we went wrong
Lil pump
The Ghost Hunter
true
Awful music! Should be called Lil prick not Lil pump
redbone fabrication thats why I listen to old papa eminem lol
+Tay 56 still some shit lyrics ya lil dick pump
Mumble be like:
"Let's see... drugs, women and... money.."
*SMASHES HEAD TO COMBINE IT*
"Done. Give me money"
Ha ha. And you forgot repeating absolutely everything. And there are still good rappers that diss mumble rappers. Most of Eminem's album Kamikaze is essentially dissing mumble rappers. The funny thing is that only one person he dissed made a diss track in response. That rapper who responded to Eminem was Machine Gun Kelly, who says he isn't a mumble rapper and also dissed Eminem a few times before Kamikaze was released.
And cars.
Rappers have always rapped about money, drugs, women, violence. Fuck you complaining about? Complain about the music being shit instead, then I'm with you.
@SauceKing In the EP he made after Rap Devil, Binge, many of the songs can be considered mumble rap.
The so called pop music we have today is actually a sex industry, I'm sure they prefer stripping over singing.
lol
I think you're absolutely right.
Listen to hit em up by 2pac
True as fuck literally modern music gives me a headake
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Thank you for covering this! I used to song write and slowly gave it up because what I continually heard was not how my music sounded. The music machine is a bully, but this video is really inspiring and freeing. Love your channel!
As a music producer I agree. EDM and Techno are meant to be synthetic like that, but pop isnt. We should go back to the old days for pop and rap.
And even then you can get techno sounds that sound good and aren't compressed to shit
Some people have found ways to get unusual sounds out of ordinary things, i saw a guy making techno using nothing but a big set of PVC pipes and his goddamn sandals
And infact i heard the sound for the star wars blaster came from striking a long cable with something like a wrench
Pop is just a big disgrace to music no matter what you put next to it nowadays
Or we should just let people hear what they like. When people enjoy modern music, just let them
@@manueinsnoob6558 just stating my opinion, not saying modern music should be destroyed, just I would rather listen to jazz sometimes
I really can’t handle that mumble rap junk… “like surely your lyrics can’t be that bad that you have to mumble them” (reads lyrics) yeah just keep it that way I like it like that.
Rap isn't music. It's poetry.
"Jazz isn't dead, it just smells funny" - Our lord and savior Frank Zappa
i might be moving to montana soon
I love that quote so much
Jazz is like the pop music of classical
Frank was God damn talented!
Yeah Frank Zappa told us about this in the 80s he's very missed
I've seen countless people instantly skip a song with the most beautiful melody I've ever heard within 2 seconds because it didn't start with the actual beautifully well crafted part of the song
C418 - Ward in a nutshell
@@james2be916 oh yes
I miss the music that started with instruments and with in the first 6 cords you knew what song it was and get excited and turn the volume all the way up in anticipation of when the vocals started to belt out.
@@dawsie ye exactly
When I listen to a new song, I usually wait until the end of the first chorus to see if I like it. Mind you, there are also songs where I’m one second in and I know I like it, like The Weeknd’s “Hardest to Love”
I’m not sure whether music as a whole was actually better or if we’re only remembering the timeless ones. Just because a song is popular at a given time doesn’t mean it won’t disappear into obscurity in the future.
"The Beatles just happened to make music in a time period where women were allowed to be horny".
-Some guy on the Internet
Best music vs worst music with horny things, who would win?
Ever heard of WAP?
@red leader's fav dude nah,,it,s Want A Pee?
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One thing I always wondered about. These pop stars we have today, are labelled as superstars and icons and the greatest musical artists of our generation, and mostly because their music gets the most air time on radio stations. But who decides what gets the most plays? Are there any real point to have Charts shows on radios these days? Or is it just which record company pays the most to promote their cash cow, and keep the illusion going?
This, and many, many different barriers for independent artists to be heard or recognized for their accomplishments. They are purposely kept down to prop up the big corporations. Just an example, is how Tom Macdonald (completely independent) was treated when he started being successful enough to top the charts:
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Modern music is all about brain washing. Look at the masses, plugged into the same garbage, watch the youth next to you in a car who playes rap, he sings it, he memorizes it...he gets the lyrics deep down inside of him and he is a disrespectful human being..ask any adult who knows him
This! Always wondered even as a kid what determines these "chart-toppers". Voting? How? And who gets to participate?
I'm not a fan of modern music but surprisingly enough what gets marketed now is done in a similar way to how it was done 30 or even 40 years ago. I regularly go through charts from the 80s and dead set there was a lot of crap in there then as well, and there are great songs that never charted but are now the absolute classics of today.
You already answered the question and got it in one.
As a musician, this truly breaks my heart
Why?
@@KazamusPex watch the video.
same here :-(
Im wondering, others than many modern music in which are not as good, or just very bad nowadays, do you think we have any ... "good" ... modern music ? Like, in the last 5 or 10 years for example ?
Surely, there are still some good or event great music out of all of them ... right ??
If you were a true musician you would do something to change the culture
I find most modern music utterly forgettable. For example, there is a song by Harry Styles called 'Satellite'. The music video is highly emotional, brings me to tears. But the song itself, ... gone. I wouldn't know it without the accompanying video. And there is another song by Lewis Capaldi, with the video about an old man and a dog. I don't even know the name of the song, I'll have to look it up, ... ... ... It is called 'Wish You The Best'. Again, video awesome, song,... what song?
There is one artist that I really do remember though, Courtney Hadwin. She has a highly emotional song called 'Call Me Back'. She pours her heart and soul into her vocals. With lyrics like "I used to call you up at 4am, just to hear the sound of your voice", and "I'm never going to lose your number, just so that I can hear your voice" or words to that effect.
Another emotional one is called 'Breakable', with lyrics like ""I'm strong enough to tell you I'm feeling weak", and "I don't want to love you and lose myself again, because I'm Breakable, and it takes too long to heal". Powerful lyrics.
Even her fun, high energy songs, 'That Girl Don't Live Here' is filled with metaphors about growing up from the girl she was on AGT, to the young woman she is now. And her latest song for Halloween 'Monsters', even though it is a fun, Rock song, it is about mental disorders, schizophrenia, multi-personality disorder,... and the like, with lyrics like "I’m a little bit lonely but I’m never alone, surrounded by myself when there’s nobody home" and "I’m afraid of myself every time I see the face in the mirror staring back at me, I don’t care how long it takes I gotta keep the monsters away".
There are some other new songs that I can remember by other artists, but it is very few, and far between. Most of them are just to generic and bland to be memorable.
Modern music became so terrible medieval music (bardcore) is making a re-emergence in 2020.
that explains my recommended section
Bardcore is honestly the best thing to happen to modern mainstream music
You know it's bad when the Dark Ages, when everyone was dumb , barbaric, and uneducated, make better music than the most technologically advanced age in human history...
2021: Roman poetry comes back
2022: Dubstep makes return
2023: ... and that's it. There was no more music from that point on. The last song was played on Jan 15. 2023 at 14:21 EST.
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As a very young person who grew up with new music I can confirm that old music is so much better
Yeah me and my dad listen only to country but my step sister is obsessed with Taylor Swift the sellout that she is I think her music is garbage and should be tossed into a pit of fire
@gnome from pinkerton Well thats your opinion
yessir
same here
Amen
As a musician I'm open minded to old and new music, however it would be nice if the newer artists would at least integrate some real instruments in with all the electronics.
Well said. The acoustics can never be replaced.
I don't remember the context any more, but I heard an old violinist who said, that the strings of a violin is not attached to the bridge, but to your heart. Made so much sense.
Oh, and for a killer mandolin piece:
Let Your Fingers Do The Walking (Sort Sol's 1993 4th studio album Glamourpuss):
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The song was used as the main love theme of Nattevagten - the original Danish version of the horror/thriller 1997 movie Night Watch.
New pop music is just easy. Why do you think Gwen Stephani went from playing rock to pop? Its easier to not have to think when making music.
Also you don't even have to sing to be famous anymore. You can be a DJ. I remember when a DJ was mostly on the radio and sometimes at parties. Now you have groups of thousands that go see DJ's like they're fucking pop stars when all they do is play records.
No electronics. The only “electronics” allowed are Eletric guitars. Nothing else
Every generation asks the same question. Pop culture reflects the people and the rebellion of youth. The Beatles infuriated the crooner-WWII generation, Jimi Hendrix offended the Beatles lovers, etc. I imagine the same happened 4000 years ago and will happen forever. Lyrics reflect the education and vocabulary of the youth at the time. Today. kids do not read, do not read poetry, have brief attention spans, use text instead of long phone calls and conversations. Today, the opportunity for breakthroughs in music are limited to what makes a buck. Listen to guitarist Mancuso today. He is trying to breakthough. He is different, new.
Fascinating... is all I could say.
I am an aspiring musician and this issue is my biggest motivator to do better. I just hope I'm still make it despite being "different".
Edit: I have not produced any of the music yet. I’m in the writing stage. I have the lyrics down but I’m still figuring out what instruments will do what. I’m taking music theory classes to figure out how to make it sound the best I can. I want to work as an indie artist so I kind of have to figure this out on my own.
let's hear your stuff.
a lot of artists are different than what's currently conventional to most people's taste. i am so obsessed with today's indie music because they stray from mainstream and reflect classical sounds and lyricism. lemme know about your work btw
Go check my album out.... Its not sooo crappy 🤦🏽♂️
Good luck
Lyrics, Melody and originality my friend. You can thank me later with some free gig tickets.
U know that music has hit rock bottom when u see Cardi b as a role model for a 13 year old girl
Yup
You also forgot to mention lizzo
Bro, music hasn’t hit rock bottom, and it never will as long as humans exist. I think you’re missing out on a lot of modern music.
@@reyesfreudenthalpablo8457 i listen to good modern music
Im just saying when the generation around me is listening to music with no substance; like mummble rap , i can see its not going anywhere good.
@@blueboy7837 most popular rap music resembles the sound of diarrhea, most scientists agree. Just take 6ix9ine as an example.
Not only do many songs nowadays sound the same, the entire live music scene has become repetitive. I remember cabarets from the 70's when band members would always tune their guitars by ear before each set. It was a pleasant ritual to observe... sometimes one of them would get carried away and drift off into a riff. It's so phony nowadays to see the band members hide in the corner before a set and tune their guitars with an electronic tuner... many are probably are not even capable of tuning their guitars by ear. Also, from what I've seen, some guitarist in bands nowadays are just pretending to play... using recorded music to play lead....how pathetic is that? The cabaret bands in the 70's and 80's would usually stop between songs, say a few words, have a quick drink, sometimes re-tune their guitars, and occasionally debate with the crowd about what song to do next. Sometimes one member would start a guitar riff and other members would catch up. You can't have spontaneous, original, variety, when you have a laptop in front of you controlling the song order script in your set.
There are so many unique songs from the past that you can name with just a few notes.
I found myself doing that listening to a music service recently.
@@rcschmidt668 Yep, Hard days night. You know it from that first strum.
If you think Britney and Beyoncé are bad you should hear what it’s like now.
The vocal ability in mainstream music is no longer there. Like they sing the same half octave the whole time
"Music as an art form is dying. It's being replaced by music which is a disposable product designed to sell, but not to inspire."
Some one fucking said it, thank god
Honestly I just saw tits and clicked
I was about to disagree with Thoughty2, assuming this was another "damn kids, my taste is be'r 'an yours!" video then he said it. He freakin' nailed it and while I do appreciate what kind of techniques modern music tech can enable, it's true that it's all being employed more for soulless profit rather than enjoying the art form! Even indie is now just mostly marketing. Like, big name labels with an indie sub-label? No wonder my friends who are musicians hesitate when big labels approach 'em.
Music today is still good
Lil pump
What is good though, is that through the internet you can discover all those hidden talents much easier today.
Lord GabeN because you are too shit to find them
Exactly. There's a famous piece written by Steve Albini called "The Problem With Music". The internet has solved this and has allowed artists to be more independent on their own means.
I grew up with older music from my mom, i was born 2006 and really love anything from 50s to 90s, can't deal with today's music, it just doesn't make me feel the same way
Hey, I know it's a shitty cringe times 100000 comment but I recommend Michael Jackson, Freddie Mercury and Rick Astley for the 50s-90s music. But if you want something a lot more different and still just as good then I recommend Napoleonic music, British Music and Bagpipes. With a few recommended songs, Lilliburlero, French Grenadiers, Highland Laddie, Downfall of Paris, Scotland the Brave, March of the Cameronmen
I know and love all three of them
I'm the same
@@TheWangspangler you know Metallica by any chance, I was born 2006 and I absolutely hate modern music
Yep, I know Metallica, my brother absolutely adores them, they are a great band
Bro one of the first major moments I heard a song I liked in the media is when I saw the Mario movie and they used No Sleep Till Brooklyn by the Beastie Boys in the movie, and I flipped out, since they are my favorite music group. Then, weeks later, I go see Gaurdians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3, and the trailer for some Captain Marvel sequel had Intergalactic by them in the trailer, and I flipped out again. THEN, towards the end of the movie in one of the final fight scenes, Star Lord played, you guessed it, No Sleep Till Brooklyn. Those were some of the best experiences I had in movies, because my musoc taste rarely has songs in movies, so that was a big first for me.
Yes, I like metal and when I saw Resident Evil the credits at the end blew my mind
Ramnstein, slipknot, crystal method, Marylin Manson
Like no pop at all
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Stop listening to the radio. Modern technology allows individuals who couldn’t afford studio time 20 years ago to create a masterpiece in their bedrooms and release it on a global scale. Go find the good stuff. There is tons of it. Boycott the mainstream. There’s no reason to bother with it anymore.
What artists do you recommend me listening to?
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Bradley Swanson that is such a great point .
_mic.mic.bungee_ Barrie James O’Neil ❤️
Modern pop is actually really good if you have the volume at 0
true
This man speaks the truth
You are a very wise man thank you for the info I will keep it in my soul
Yessss!!!!!!!
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I hate most modern stuff that comes on the radio, but theres tons of modern indie music I find on RUclips that I really enjoy. Dark ambient, dungeon synth, symphonic black metal, atmospheric doom metal, visual kei and other weird genres in foreign languages. I also love a lot of modern instrumental video game and tv show soundtracks.
death and black metal are my all time favs, and the only things that i listen to, but now the new pop mainstream shit has ruined it and is now less popular.
yoooo i love visual kei and korean metal, they are just great
radio music is just a bunch of generic pop music but there’s much more than indie music just to enjoy I personally do enjoy listening to gernic pop songs from the 2000~19 bcs once in a while bcs they can be pretty nostalgic and at the end of the day they are very catchy but I’ll rather stick with my own style of music I enjoy and sprinkling in that occasional pop songs
I know I'm rather late, but I've found SO MANY channels on RUclips that just make INCREDIBLY GOOD music. Aviators, Miracle of Sound, Falkkone, and others are my favourite examples. I don't like how things have evolved to the point that the mainstream stuff on the radio is rinse-and-repeat of the same people making the same kind of song over and over, and to find anything decent, you either have to get lucky, or look all over the place. Small independent artists make better music and it's a shame how underappreciated they are.
Lmao true 👍
How bad are things? When Taylor Swift can fill stadiums you know music is dead.
What really hurts me she is becoming more famous and successful than extremely talented bands like Alter Bridge Shinedown Breaking Benjamin sevendust What's wrong with people today 😢😢😢😢
I guess subconsciously this is why I stick with 60s/70s music. I hear a lot of modern music at work and it hits me how repetitive these songs are. It forces me back to what I consider well-written music.
I like throat singing from the 13th century (There are more songs and artists than batzorig and chinggis khaani), 17th, 18th and 19th century British military music, Napoleonic music, 1880-1930 Gramophone, Freddie Mercury and Michael Jackson.
I guess I am a really old Gen Z kid.
Yes, all modern songs are just that loud disco shitty music with shitty lyrics and voices.
60s and 70s kinda repetitive imo same with rock songs but also modern music can dometimes be bad but it's not repetitive
Listen to “everyone on planet earth, this one’s for you, let’s rock!” By the Pablo collective, came out 2 years ago. Very good album
I think if I had to work where this crappy music is playing all day I would quit. It’s chased me out of stores before
Modern songs don't have intros any more either, not even really short ones. Straight into the hook as he said. The young are missing out on so much, no more crazy diamonds to shine on.
Anime songs and K-pop have some, especially Anime songs
He means intros like them talking to another or talking about a thing before they sing
Not all young people. For example, I've just turned 14, and pretty much all I listen to is Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Metallica, AC/DC, and Linkin Park (only the Hybrid Theory and Meteora albums).
@@adambenes3022 Good for you. Sounds like you like guitar, you should check out Dire straits - Telegraph road. Very under rated band.
@@adrianred236 I actually play the guitar myself, so yeah, you're right.
Also, thanks for the recommendation, I'll definitelly check them out!
Waiting for "I was born in the wrong generation" comments
William Johnson I know right? So many edgy snowflakes who think that they're on a whole new level of music taste
You can find any song for considerably less than whatever old-timey price it used to be. I'd be rather be in this generation simply because even if I dislike popular genres it takes me five minutes to find whatever I want.
William Johnson already like 50 i saw
I was born in the wrong generation
I'm glad I was born in this generation, because I still am able to appreciate older musicians while still having the benefit of the Internet and the like. If anything I wish I was born further into the future
Music these days is just empty
It's just a sound without soul
I totally agree with you. Recently I found myself listening to The Queen Is Dead by the Smiths and reflected that there is no modern pop music out there that is as filled with hidden meaning and emotion as that album. Nothing even comes close.
Pop music: dying
Music in general: so many new weird genres, experimentation...
Maybe people will get bored of the generic pop formula.
Maybe this is a phase, and the interesting music that is being created underground will come out again. I hope.
NomadApe
That's why I always hate when indie artists go professional. When they're in the independent phase, they're having fun making music and experimenting. But once you get signed, it's all about pleasing the guys in suits by making what they want you to make them. Creative freedom goes away and it takes the love out of the art. It's one step forward, two steps back.
@@Toongeek45 check out deadmau5, he did the opposite. he became one of the most well known producers with his first, rather mainstreamy first album, well a few of them were others were revolutionary for example faxing berlin he created a completely new style of looking at trance with this track, but as his music progressed throughout his albums, it became more and more melodic and more creative. look at his while 1
Pop music isn't dying. Sure it is changing, but this video is full of shit.
The fact is that pop music use to be far less interesting since only a few artists where famous and it was hard to find interesting music. There was far less influence from grass root movements since you needed a record deal to reach out. The record labels in the other hand only went for safe proven records.
If there is something you can learn from the history of music then that is that the more advanced our methods of sharing music becomes the faster it evolves. Since then you have far more sources of influence.
@@stephenpaea177
Haha, someone sounds salty for some reason :P
This is why I love hard rock and heavy metal music. It kind of keeps the same old fashion style of music. And it usually always different in some way or another.
nah its still sounds the same, it just depends on the sub genre of metal. But if you are going to compare a metal music within its own sub genre, it will sounds like any music within that metal sub genre. Timbre of metal music is always been the same, i mean for example a death metal song will always sounds like a death metal.
@@ian3087 But you have to understand that every heavy metal band usually has there own theme.
Powerwolf is all about mythical creatures, and stories like that. Sabaton theme is War. Distrubed theme is mental health and self being. Just to name some of the popular metal bands. My darkest days, there theme is all about sex. Mystic Prophecy, theme is angles and demons.
And while the overall sound is the same. The style of instruments are different. The way they are sung are different, the rhythm and beats are all different in there own way.
No band sounds the same because there music is revolved around there own theme.
@@ian3087 IDK, if I compare Isengard, Mörk Gryning, Limbonic Art, Windir and Abigor they don't really sound the same, even though they are all black metal bands.
I guess it depends whether you want to create ever more subgenres to have neat categories inside of which things sound similar.
I beg to differ in some cases where the only thing that differs is the way the "singer" wrecks his voice along the song. A little bit of emotion here and there is what makes it alive but growling 5 minutes straight is first of all not my taste and secondly it really sounds the same no matter the band - ultimately doing the same like all the pop stuff. I had my closest friend play his favorite music and I patiently listened to it while trying to understand what the deal is. I came to the conclusion that that style of music suffers from the same symptoms as every other genre. Let me explain. The same thing can be seen in electronic music where nowadays everyone uses a specific set of synths and patterns. When i look back at the 90s the songs produced were limited by the synths that were available and yet they managed to produce songs that are unique. Sometimes I think I've heard anything and nothing can give me back the joy I had back then when hearing music - which is kinda depressing if I think about it. The only band that keeps me hooked and surprised to this day is Tool but also they start to divert from inventing new sounds to "upcycling" their sound from the past days into new songs.
So, if you just focus on the melody and arrangement you will most likely notice that nowadays almost everything, with very few exceptions, sounds the same no matter the genre. Slapping a new lyric on won't change anything if you consider that the singers are just another instrument in the band.
@@FntX-Video while I agree with you. If it doesn't sound like hard Rick then it's not hard rock. It has to still have the roots of the type of music. If the type of music doesn't have its roots, then no one would know what type of music it is.