Today's mainstream music is crap imo but there is still great music being made if you look in the right places.
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Has all the good music already been written?
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Can you find an original piece of music which you find to be good that's been written in the past few years?
I don't follow music so much these days so it's hard for me to do it. But maybe you music lovers can.
I don't follow music so much these days so it's hard for me to do it. But maybe you music lovers can.
Slackstring's stuff is excellent.
I dunno. It seems to me like the approximate rate at which "good" music comes out is constant, there's just more garbage floating around in general, which just drags the quality average down. I find I'm still adding music to my library at a constant rate, with all sorts of things from the 1950s to present day.
I think the big issue with a lot of the modern day "crap" is technology. Don't get me wrong, most technology is good- but too many people are using it as a substitution for proper skill and talent today (yay Autotune). Before you actually had to be able to sing. Today, you can just yammer crap into a ****** microphone and fix it up in software (to a certain extent). That's the kind of music I absolutely despise (I feel stupider just listening to it), because its basically an insult to the listener ("haha our lead sucks, but you won't notice because we bought a license for Autotune!").
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I have asked myself this question frequently myself and realize it cannot be the case. Could be that the music business has become so convoluted that it's harder for new acts to break out due to the overwhelming pressure to be the next big pop sensation. Maybe I'm so immersed in everyday life that there's little time to tune in to the emerging music scene as I once did. Perhaps there are peaks of heightened creativity in art and music followed by lulls. I think of the 60s-70s then the 80s-90s and so on. Probably a little of all of these.
Why not? Between remakes and reboots, Hollywood does it all the time.
And what is a cover, if not updating old hits. Occasionally, you even get a song that is as good or better than the original (as a matter of personal opinion).
Whereas I interpret an artist doing a cover as tantamount to a tribute, I see Hollywood's incessant remakes and sequels as more of a low-risk cash grab.
Which isn't to say they are all like that, but, well I'm pretty cynical.
At some point yes there will come a point when mathematically we cannot write original music. Of course there will be a huge array of cover songs. I don't think we are at that stage yet tho. We are probably 1000's of years away. This is a good equation for Dr Q! What we are in currently is a lull of good music nothing more. Of course my grandmother would say that there is no good music anymore.
Nothing compares to the long tracks we had, like Queen or Led Zeppelin. Nowadays only a very few bands make masterpieces. There's too much computer-based electronic-**** IMO.
Ok I'll bite, what's wrong with using a computer to make music? It can just be used as a tool, the important thing is the creativity behind it. That applies to older types of instruments as well. Plenty of terrible music that was contemporary to Queen and Zep.
That's true, but I'm thinking of deejays like Guetta or Avicii, who certainly are good ones, but can just 'press the play button', if you know what I mean.
And all those songs start sounding the same, over and over again. This modern music, is not 'real' music IMO, it's nothing compared to the good old music. Computers make every song sound okay, when played live, as the deejay just presses 'play'. There should be more bands like Coldplay or U2, focussing on live performance, and less deejays. There's nothing particularly wrong with using a computer to make music. It's using what are more than likely canned beats and sounds to churn out something in what sounds like it took mere minutes. Take that terrible song "We Found Love" by I think Rhianna. Just awful, awful stuff. 100% generic dance beats with even more generic transitions, topped with saying "We found love in a hopeless place" 4287 times. Almost as bad as Cher's "Do You Believe In Life After Love" from 1998 or so. Mindbendingly repetitive with terrible auto tune. "Generally", computer-based music seems pretty bad. Probably why I'm not a fan of EDM at all.
But computers can be used to make great music. Like you said, it's all about the talent and creativity behind it. These days, however, any two-bit hack can start up a computer and throw some noises together and call it music. Couldn't really do that with actual instruments as much.
The other day, I heard one of my favorite Frank Sinatra songs on the radio .... it was corrupted and bastardized into a "rap song" sung by some famous hip-hop (rap) artist.
Is nothing sacred?
Is nothing sacred?
...but if you see people with dresses made of meat then sounding like Madonna, maybe this:
and so forth.
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I feel like I grew up in this golden age of music. When I now scan through channels regarding rock/pop, I don't hear anything that appeals to me. Has it outgrown me? Am I stuck in the past? Or is rock'n roll dead?
I invite anyone with a good band name and song title to throw it out and I'll listen to it. For reference, I just turned 60.
I invite anyone with a good band name and song title to throw it out and I'll listen to it. For reference, I just turned 60.
...or spelling, punctuation, etc.
Are you sure it wasn't the mid 1980's?They stopped writing good music sometime in the mid 1990s.
I've always been amazed by the seemingly endless combinations.
Or, we might just need to redefine Music.
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I completely agree with mobilehaathi's post. Taste in music like anything else is subjective. What's great to me may not be great to anyone else (I'm often reminded of this by some of peers).
I think there is plenty of room for more good music to be written.
Even if we could decide on a common objective metric for "good," I'm not sure if we could determine this without an exhaustive compendium of "all possible music."
Errrr, I mean no.
I completely agree with mobilehaathi's post. Taste in music like anything else is subjective. What's great to me may not be great to anyone else (I'm often reminded of this by some of peers
). I think there is plenty of room for more good music to be written.
No. While it's incredibly disappointing how much garbage-music is produced every year for the lowest-common-denominator of music listeners, there are always at least a few releases that restore my faith.
