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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
*kept
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?
"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
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
I’m guessing this is why I have gravitated towards smaller artists, because they actually treat music like an art
Point...
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just like smaller stores and smaller some games and visual artists and so on
I'd recommend Elisha eagles, will wood or shawn james
"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”
~ Freddy Mercury
He was right and this is the only video I watched that explained why music nowadays isn't as artist as it was years prior , and why we don't hear Max Martin or Dr Luke's name unless they're being sued
Its like what Chris Rock said when he said he can debate why Run DMC, Krs one, Rakim, NWA, Ll Cool j and other early hip hop was art because it had a message and how he can't defend the over sexualized hip hip of the mid to late 2000s
“We are in the golden age of music” -Freddy Mercury
Some of the most accurate words ive ever heard about music
Dosent everyone say that i see people in my gen that 2000 to 2013 was the golden age and the whole "i feel bad for kids these days" i honestly find it cringe since our parents were saying the same about us
@@Chuck_EL agreed. Dua Lipa ruined Elton John's music with Cold Heart. Such a dumb song. Has no taste and no fucking sense. Music video was all cheap.
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Joe’s gotta go
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
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.
"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
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 😊
"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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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
Fifty seven year old Director of Music Education here.
Honestly this video is all opinion with lots of cherry picking for examples.
Not worth the time to finish watching it.
I teach thùs stuff for a living, I teach modern music history.
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.
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.
How to make a DJ Kaled song:
1. Get another singer to feat (aka sing most of the song).
2. Yell one of the following:
a. DJ KALED
b. WE THE BEST MUSIC
c. ANOTHER ONE
3. Add some royalty free drum loops, chords, insturments.
True.
uuhhh what is going on?
And this would sound better
Brahhh 😂😂😂😂
jedizombiekiller this joke would have been funny 7-8 years ago when this guy was actually somewhat relevant.
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-"
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.
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
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
This is why I don’t listen to modern music
there is some good modern music but barely any though. There is a good music artist called Mac Demarco
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
"...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
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.
As a musician and music fan, about 95% of the songs that inspire me and entertain me came out of the 60s, 70s and 80s. After that, it's become much harder for me to find original material that I like. Thank goodness, here's the proof as to why. Thank you.
The reason you're inspired by older works is just because they're more to your taste. Music is subjective, and thus it's impossible to claim that it has gotten worse over time.
Unfortunately, the study Thoughty2 is referencing is actually intensely flawed and none of its researchers had any grounding in musicology. It was put together to assess how broad elements of music have changed in a narrow range of genres over a 50 year period by people based in AI, complex systems modelling, physics, and music technology. None of the information gathered has any ground on which to stand to claim that there has been a change of quality of music.
Timbre, which Thoughty2 claims is the clear indicator of what is high quality music, is unfortunately not anything like what he explains it to be. Timbre is the way something sounds. It is the difference in sound between a piano, trumpet, and electric guitar. It is as indicative of quality of music as pitch, rhythm, or tempo. At the end of the day, it is just a miniscule puzzle piece in a mosaic of elements that can be put together to create new music.
Hope this helped :)
If you want more information, there's a critique of this video made by the youtuber "Tantacrul" that goes into further detail.
Many 70s, 80s music made my brain release endorphins, but not music after 2000s.
@@jarrahtree5130 You tried, bro. But unlike how music taste is subjective, this comment section is filled to the brim with us oldies lovers.
@@BerylLx Anything to justify music is worse now haha
@@BerylLx I like old music too, but I also like new music. What Jarrah said is true. The honest truth is just that you haven't FOUND a modern musician/group that clicks with you.
People want to talk about how "Older music was better" and they pull up examples of artists like Freddy Mercury, or Jimmy Hendrix; immensely skilled people who even non-music lovers know were insanely talented and creative. Yet when they bring up new music, they always bring up pop stars. News flash: Pop stars are not musical geniuses. They're rarely even musicians! They're a false persona made to sell a product, that product being music made by people who's name you've never heard of, who make music solely for the purpose of getting rich, and not specifically NOT to make art.
Sometimes the poster-child of the music actually is the artist, like Lady Gaga. In those cases, a lot of the time it's a mixture of real talent and selling an image. But artists like these make their music a certain way because that's HOW you make music that many people listen to. Music that appeals to everyone HAS to be generic. Some people might love a song that's in 12/8 time, in F# Locrian, in strophic form, with heavy metal vocals on top of a flute. Done right, this could sound amazing, and some people would foam at the mouth every time it's played.
...but most people would hate it, and it wouldn't sell.
To make a song that a lot of people want to listen to, the rules are:
4/4 Time, or 3/4 Time
Simple rhythm
I IV V chord progression or similar; played in basic triads or inversions, or sometimes power chords for rock. Maaaaaaaybe a dominant 7th if you want to get "spicy" (hurk)
A simple, diatonic melody for the chorus, that a person who has never touched an instrument can play. You may pull one (1) note out of key for the chorus, and no more.
Use a well established timbre; that is, don't experiment with the instruments too much or you'll alienate people.
Verse A, Verse B, Lift, Chorus, Repeat. You may change one of these if you want to make it more interesting, but you will half your sales.
KEY CHANGE UP A HALF STEP AT THE LAST CHORUS! REPEAT! KEY CHANGE UP A HALF STEP AT THE LAST CHORUS!
So that's how all the big names in the latest years make their music, and that's WHY they're millionaires. But have you tried... Not listening to the big names? Like, that's an option, you know. You don't HAVE to listen to Justin Beiber. No one's FORCING you to listen to Katy Perry. You have spotify, you have youtube. Why complain about stores only selling plain white bread if you never bothered to walk down the isle? It's only in front because the majority basically kinda likes it, and their interests deviate as you go down the isle. There are thousands of artists out there making GORGEOUS music RIGHT NOW.
Just look for 2 seconds and you'll be blown away.
“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
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.
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
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 TH-cam 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...
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.
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."
"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?
Lol
410 likes in two weeks
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 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
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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
Modern music is not music. It's p'rnography.
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.
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
@@generalgrievous5278 - 2who?
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!!!!!!!
lol
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
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.
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
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.
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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
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They ve always did that from 60s like the Doobie Brothers Long Train Running and China groove
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 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".
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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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.
Real music fans don't listen to Hollywood stuff.
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
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.
"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
I hate how most music nowadays is lazily synthesized at a computer in the artist’s mom’s basement
referring esp to Billie Eilish?
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.
He forgot the hell that is Autotune. That's how you take pretty people that can't quite sing and make them stars.
hell, even if they can sing, they autotune them because people think that's what singers sound like now.
If someone isn't a good vocalist but sick composer I don't see why a bit of help is so bad. If you value vocals above anything the music you listen to will probably one dimensional. Sure a lot of artists that use autotune don't have vocal talent, creativity, or strong composing so in that case fair enough, but if used correctly I don't see the problem.
Wrong. There is plenty of good autotune. Listen to Kanye or Travis Scott.
I mean there are creative users of Autotune, like Daft Punk
@@aaronmontgomery6977 Both Kanye and Travis Scott make trash music
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
I hate modern music
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?"
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
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".
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.
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.
17:20 I have a traumatic memory with happy...
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.
*Mainstream* (edited from modern) music:
Repetitive screamy synth
Shitty trap beats
Girl robot voices that sound like they're dying from Ebola
People who mumble about how rich they are
But, most importantly...
The autotune.
EDIT: yo holy shit this got 700 likes
>implying autotune is a bad thing
>implying trap beats are bad
>implying all mumble rap is bad
That is because it is. When musicians overdose on autotune they sound like some freaking alien, when people mumble rap you wouldn't hear what they said if it wasn't for the fact that they rap about the same things every time and the brain fills in the words automatically since it has heard the words before and don't even get me started on trap beats...
but this is just my opinion tho, and sorry for bad grammar
Sam GW when it's done right, it sounds really good and makes the music more interesting. for example, when rappers like future or sahbabii use autotune, it sounds incredible and adds a layer of depth to the sound of the music. however when a rapper like t-wayne (and sometimes lil uzi vert) uses it, it sounds obnoxious and awful
Autotune is never good. Dont support it.
Filesmasher Pro ikr
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.
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.
"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
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.
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 😢😢😢😢
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.
"Music gets worse every year" yeah it does.
Can't agree with you more on that. I listen to starset and otherwise, and then i compare even their songs that were not popular, compare them to "todays hottest hits' and the difference is like comparing an ant mound to a mountain.
@@homelessman6662 that's litteratly me but with anime openings lmao.
@@Raven_Karasu_ what do you think about anime openings? Are they getting better or worse?
WAP is a disappointment. Why do people enjoy it, I don't understand
@@kausthita11 they are the only thing i enjpy at this point. But i can't really say anything about them getting worse considering i have been watching anime since last year.
Old music : Try to be normal music but have edgy meaning
Modern music : Try to be edgy music but doesn't have any meaning
True
Yes, especially Ed Sheehan with his meaningful lyrics
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Japanese music: the song is catchy, funky and chill but the lyrics are about suicide and depression.
I'm not talking about anime weeb songs but rather actual Japanese songs. Search "reach into the night" by yoasobe, first listen to it without lyrics the with it.
@@erfanthered9801
Japanese music really is depressing now that I think about it.
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
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 TH-cam 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.
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.
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
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.
It's not because I'm older that I don't like modern pop music. It's because I find it boring and uninspiring.
and it's stupid not like the intelligent lyrics of Sympathy for the Devil or Gimme Shelter or just about anything Bob Dylan wrote these songs helped shape my young mind and made me realize that there was more to life than my little one horse town in Ohio made me do research into things thus opening my mind to whole new worlds and thought if it wasn't for Dylan I never would have read any Stienbeck
gregory brian I hate it because it's always about love songs. I get sick of a ton of love songs. There's more to life. Sing about different things, not who you broke up with (I'm looking at you Taylor swift). Kaleo does a good job on making different tunes, pitches to sing, different topics for each song.. they're a really amazing band. They only have one album as of now, they're fairly more new.
god, i can relate to this so much. if you're easily sickened by love/heartbreak songs, then i wouldn't recommend coming to the philippines (a.k.a., my homeland). almost all of the pop artists here have no other topic to base their songs off other than love, heartbreak, and longing for a "forever" (we use that as a colloquialism for "lovelife"). and it all sounds the same, even the instruments they use are the same (acoustic drums, piano or guitar)! i guess we're just a nation of hopeless romance (yeah, right). i fucking hate it.
I don't see anyone claiming that today pop music is the devils music. Just that its sucks. I stopped listen to new pop music in the early 2000's. And im 35. Also i would rather listen to a Billion Love Songs that hear another Taylor Swift song about her ex-boyfriend or another beyonce song how horrible men are.
Jack Samsong
Exactly. After or around 2000 (pop) music began to deteriorate rapidly. Not just pop, but the art of music as a whole. I remember when there were interesting, creative, weird, genuine, storytelling music videos shown on music channels.
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.
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 ❤️
Music isn't dead. "MAINSTREAM" MUSIC is.
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
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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...
It’s shocking that people with such little talent can now hold such power
Yep everyone should think twice after they succeeded singing along with the so called artists... Singing aloning means that you atleast are the same big artist as the artist you admire...!! Hearing others doing the same, means that the artist is not an artist at all!! Thats my opinion... ;-)
Well, many "bad singers" (myself included) can hit all the notes to a bunch of old songs, just as easily as new ones. That doesn't mean you're laying the notes down on beat, or having the same sound quality to your voice, etc. Also, have you ever noticed you can sing some songs by a certain artist, but not all of them? Sometimes they make it easy for people to sing along, sometimes not.
The only talent needed is in the marketing department
You are asking the wrong question. It’s not “why does modern music suck”.because it obviously doesn’t. Jazz is still going strong, blues is still strong, rap is strong, metal is still strong. A lot of electronic and experimental music is still strong.
Mainstream music however is more about being a product that makes money. For example - a youtube channels only content could be someone reacting to other content, but if a low grade gimmick averages out to profit, people will use that gimmick as ling as it pays.
infinitycrops I guess my point is that it’s crazy how all of these creative and sophisticated music genres are often ignored while people with a debatable level of talent very limited originality can make millions by singing to a pre-made trap beat and labelling it as a “pop hit”
TheChainsmokers have absolutely no talent. Their songs only consist of three chords and are just copies of each other. Yet their songs are played on radio all day. So sick of it.
and all their lyrics be summarised as 'WE'RE YOUNG, DUMB AND IN LOVE... ALSO NOSTALGIA'
Average Snowflake If "Selfie" had no lyrics I'd like it
Average Snowflake If "Selfie" had no lyrics I'd like it
Their lyrics are more like this:
"Don't leave me because I'm a white male and dumb,
Come back so I can fuck you!"
Wille Bro but their songs are so repetitive and absolutely stupid. They can't even sing yet they try to
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.
*mainstream* music is bad. People who think *all* modern music is bad, they are only scratching the surface. They aren't trying hard enough. And that is sad bc there are a lot of REALLY talented artists out there.
adele considered one of the good musicians?
Read the title man. It says pop music. Not mainstream.
Jon Mart pop music is usually mainstream. I think he's just pointing out that not all pop music is bad just all or most mainstream music is bad or getting worse.
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Zen Adele is fucking terrible lmao
Modern music is awful in some cases, the reason being that lots of pop music celebrities are children
Like lil tay.....
most cases
Like cardi b and her sister cardi s
I wouldn’t mind young artists, but I get what you’re saying.
I would love to see a band of teens my age making music, but I hate when artists try to sound like prepubescent children. It just sounds annoying as hell, like they’re trying to act in a children’s show. The biggest example of this is Dance Monkey.
and there is also douchey songs
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.
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."
Modern music doesn't suck. Modern mainstream music does. There's still hundreds of other genres of music to listen to that are all great and innovative.
This
crash979797 not all mainstream music is bad like Kanye or Kendrick
Mainstream music has always sucked.
Yeah, but he is talking specifically about mainstream music. See, Queen, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, The Kinks, Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder... those were all mainstream in their times. Mainstream AND great.
Also, what says most about our current society's taste is what is most praised. The center of the industry, not the fringes. If the thing most valued at the center of the hierarchy is getting worse and worse, then we have a problem.
You mean modern RADIO music. The underground is alive in many different genres of music, support local artists!
Joseph Porter thank you 🙏🏻 the title should definitely be changed.
Joseph Porter it wouldn’t be underground in the first place then
@@finstylefootball773 elaborate please? Because it's alive rn and definitely still the underground
@@finstylefootball773 haha.. exactly. Good point
@@lyles32386 honestly tho old bands aren't very good, like everyone hypes the Beatles or ACDC and other big bands like that, but their music was very basic and not complex except for 1 or 2 songs here and there
There is good music coming out, the problem is you just have to find it
Yes
Listen to Lisa Hannigan, "little bird" and other people like her. Beautiful stuff.
Heck, I've found some artists on TH-cam who are making better epic music than half the movie soundtracks.
But some uncultured people make it harder and harder to find
Incorrect
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.
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”
There’s one thing modern music is made for...
Money
Tony Agapiou True
Tony Agapiou I guessed it before seeing the last word!!!
Oh, really? So you're telling me the fucking Beatles were a non-profit organization?
The Risen Haha, Exactly ! They even said that they're the №1 capitalists in the world.
The french Timelord Guess they were just some sellouts, after all! Pussy music, right?