Today's music is mostly GARBAGE
 

Last night the Grammy Awards were on. I stopped watching award shows about 30 years ago for a variety of reason.

I saw some headlines this morning about the winners.

The Song of the Year is Kendrick Lamar's "Not Like Us"

This song is a piece of shit and how this garbage would be considered Song of the Year tells me that the music industry is another woke crap infested dump.

It is just another industry in decline.

What a joke.....

"Did you see Elvis and what he does on stage? That is disgusting and I can't believe he's allowed to perform. "

"Have you heard what they are listening to? Rock Music? I heard they talk about Satan. Can you believe that? What is happening to this country? "

"I can't believe how woke music is. Just filling their heads with crazy thoughts. "

Good to know some variation of this will be talked about by older people for as long as humans exist. The best music being whatever a person listened to growing up remains a constant theme, while whatever new music that is out when they are older always has something bad about it.

Music has always been "woke". You're right.

My biggest issue with modern pop music is that it requires absolutely no talent. Sure there's exceptions but even in the world of metal, which has generally been fairly pure, bands are using all kinds of computer-generated effects to produce music they can't reproduce live without computers.

The Grammys have never been a good barometer for what’s great and lasting in music have they?

Tons of snubs and acts that got overlooked.

Metallica performs live. Jethro Tull wins first ever metal Grammy.

Yeah.

Led Zeppelin never won a Grammy if I remember right?

Today’s music is fine. You don’t have to be slaves anymore to what people tell you to listen to. Go on pandora and Spotify and play something you like and eventually you’ll find new things you like. Pop music isn’t for me but there’s plenty of great music if you know where to find it. Music awards more than any other awards are always about commercial success and celebrity than it is artistry. Grammys are a poor marker

I do miss the days of good radio DJs pushing you to listen to music or hearing a good song 10 times before you really like it. That’s made it harder to find good music. But that has less to do with the music actually being bad

This is absolutely true. There's lots of great music out there, you just have to look for it.

It is crap and I choose to ignore it all.

I didnt even care when Kanya's whore showed up naked.


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Then look at her face. Something is not right.......

I honestly don't mind electronic elements in music.

What bothers me about modern pop music (including corporate metal) is that far too much of it sounds almost identical. It feels like they use an algorithm to generate "new" content. If your music doesn't fit in the algorithm, you don't get any promotion.

I know it's been that way to some degree for a long time, but it has gotten worse. Just mindless junk recycled ad nauseam. People listen to it because it is easy and they don't really have any understanding of how music gets made.

This is a pretty accurate take. However, I think Scho’s point (and I certainly agree if this is his take) is that a lot of new music just sucks. It’s not the dance moves or the messages being portrayed, it’s just not good music. But white middle aged guy is probably not the target demographic for most of these artists so they care **** all about my opinion. Hell, the last “new” band I got into was The Killers and they’re what, 20 years old as a band?

Oh, I don't mind electronic elements either. I just believe that should be used to elevate good music, not to make bad music sound good.

We are 100% in agreement there.

You know my musical tastes. I like a lot of sludge and stoner stuff. I'm kind of a purist. My personal rig is basically all analog. I don't use any digital effects really at all.

I will also add that is does not translate to good pep/marching/concert band music.

We used to play Chicago/EWF/ and all other kinds of music for pep and marching band. Horns make a song.

Today-it is just. thump thump boom boom thump. The music teachers in my school are having a hell of a time finding music the kids are interested in playing. Kids want something from today--well-it does not work well. The Admin told the teachers to make the class more 'sexy'. yes. You heard it.

Justin Timberlake does not turn into a good pep band song when a band is 12 players.