Science proves modern music sucks.

Heavy metal just gets worse and worse to my ears. And I like some metal. But I like my metal to have a little soul and melody and not be too negative.

 

I saw this video a few weeks ago and found it laughable and simplistic. I was surprised so many people fell for it.

When you cherry pick the best bands of the past and the worst of today, of course you're going to arrive at this conclusion.

I could make the same video with the Dave Clarke Five and The Monkees going up against Sleater-Kinney, Courtney Barnett and The Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

 

He's describing in detail how the music industry ripped the guts out of every genre they could attempting to make a quick buck. Timber is the soul of the music, and he is saying they have ripped the soul out of our music, but that reflects the same trend of modern civilization eventually ripping the soul out of anything it encounters and transforming paradise into wastelands. You might as well blame Hollywood for people's bad taste in fashions.

 

To a the people shitting all over modern music, how much of it have you actually heard?

 

Replace Abba with any number of Bubble Gum Pop then.

 

Too much. Researchers discovered an algorithm that can describe exactly how much money people will pay for a song, and the music industry has been using it ever since. Pop music has now officially replaced elevator music as being able to calculate exactly what the audience wants to hear or can afford to listen to. Norah Jones sold a number one selling album, composed almost entirely of old standards, because everyone is sick to death of their own commercial crap on both television and the radio.

If they put any less intonation in their music, nobody will require high fidelity speakers anymore. Musicians know what I'm talking about. Muddy bass, a great backbeat, and a wall of sound are great sometimes, but that's not all there is to music.

 

I think it'd be quite a short list of songs from the 60's that could go head to head vs this tune...

 

Music proves modern science sucks

 

Not only that, he cherry picks a song from The Beatles when they had already stopped touring and thus their sole focus was being creative and expressive via the studio. Many of their songs a few years prior were played on basic instruments and had relatively simple song structures.

 

He's not cherry picking. Pop music was a rather new thing when the Beatles started out, something that had been gaining traction since the invention of radio and the phonograph, and a stereo and music collection were only becoming cheap to own around this time thanks to the invention of the transistor which made even portable radios cheap. It was such a new thing that the Beatles and many hippies believed that pop music could change the world. Their music expressed political views that were often illegal to express any other way, which is often still the case with music today, with rap music actually being an old African political tradition. You simply will not find their messages repeated within the mass media because, if what they are saying is not illegal, it might as well be. Music, poetry, and the arts are famous for supporting leftwing politics, but there are no left wing politics left in America today. Just endless political anger and frustration at the willingness of the American people to sell their birthright to whoever offers them the lowest taxes and parades half naked women, while showing the latest football scores.

It is literally illegal to vote for Mickey Mouse in Maryland, because the American public's taste is as low as their IQ these days.

 

It's cherry picking when you compare A Day in the Life to Robin Thicke.

C'mon now.

Anyway, his argument doesn't support his claim. If he said pop music is less complex today, I'd agree. If he was to say, good music and pop music used to be one in the same, but not anymore, again, he'd be right.

Instead, he stacks The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Bod Dylan, all that...against Justin Bieber, Robin Thicke, Katy Perry and the most lame of sugar-coated bubblegum pop. But the 60s and 70s had their Biebers, just like today has their Pink Floyd. But that won't fit his narrative. It's totally cherry picked.

He also goes on to say music is more homogenized today than it used to be, while ignoring that there are more music genres today than there were in the 60s. Metal, punk, rap, electronic music--all ignored so he could "prove" a point. He just took all the best music from yesterday and compared and contrasted it with the worst music of today.

 

Its all pop music, and he is merely listing the best sellers. The Beatles were the best selling band of all time for awhile, who put all the existing bubblegum music to shame, and if people are listening to more bubblegum music these days, its because they don't know any better alternatives.

 

I also hate that little ditty about Jack and Diane, and metal has gone way downhill.

 

I just think it's really disappointing what passes as popular music these days. For fans and artists. I find it really depressing. Saying there are good artists out there if you just look is totally missing the point, IMO.

 

I don't consider popular music to be modern music . Modern music evolves in its intention . How could
this inventive intention ever be popularity ?

 

I don't know....to belittle anyone else for their choices in what they like in music?

What era does modern music begin anyway?

I love music and songs from all eras.....I have my favorites and things I don't like as much, too.....

If I went to an art museum with anyone.....I don't expect anyone to like the same pieces there that I do the most...as everything does not speak to everyone in the same way.

 

How is music a choice ? Silence is a choice . When music makes me
angry I won't put up with it .

 

It is a choice in what you want to listen to and what you don't want to hear at all...That is a choice.

I like my radio station here. It plays music from all eras...like golden oldies.....I may not like every song they play all of the time.....but that is life.....some things one likes...some things one doesn't like as much .... in all things.