Why is modern music so lazy?

Sliter · Mar 20, 2016

some are junk because they are simple so it's easier, cheaperr to make, easy to get into people mind since repeat so much and sell for people wich is simple minded to understand complex music.. do you know "brazilian Funk"? I think there aren't worse "music genre" .. it can't even be called music ....to start with they stole the name of a nice genre and all the lyrics are about sex or money xp

Xexyz · Mar 20, 2016

dfsa3fdvc1 · Mar 20, 2016

Anyone calling modern music shit must not seek out new music.
There's so many great artist out there that I can not comprehend how anyone could possibly feel that way.

I guess if you only listen to on the air top 40 music you might feel that way but if you look online, you can find so much great stuff.
There's probably more music being produced today then there has in any other point in history.

PS: Porter Robinson is amazing

Margen67 · Mar 21, 2016

Blaze163 said:
Thoughts? Opinions? Maybe some examples of modern music that WON'T make my ears tear themselves from my face and run for the hills? 'cause in my new job we have the radio on in the office, and if I hear any more songs like 'Bimmer' by Tyler The Creator (arguably weaponized brown noise to reduce the surplus population) then the work radio is going out the damn window.

"le wrong generation" and all that, but still. While I may like modern music, I will admit it mostly sounds like shit.
And not just because it's generic or unoriginal, but because it sounds so bad due to the loudness war.
Older music actually sounds better because of this.

funnystory · Mar 21, 2016

GuyInDogSuit said:
Because that's what people are buying. Blame the record companies. They keep signing on these shit "musicians" because that's what the public wants. Listen to the Top 40 radio, you'll hear a lot of garbage, that people are just eating up. People these days have no idea what real talent is. You ask them if they've heard "War Pigs," "Black Dog," "Comfortably Numb," "Ziggy Stardust," or "Redemption Song," and they'll look at you funny. And don't get me started on rap.... Tupac is rolling in his grave right now.

you guys are just living in the past. If it sells it is good music,nothing else to it.

Margen67 · Mar 21, 2016

funnystory said:
you guys are just living in the past. If it sells it is good music, nothing else to it.

Just because something sells well or is popular doesn't mean it's good.

gman666 · Mar 21, 2016

The music on mainstream radio is shit, but that doesn't mean all modern artist produce shit. The marketing tactics have changed, of course you're going to market the same repetitive crap (singles) if it makes you money. Why change the formula when you can safely profit on the same thing? When the top 10 songs consist of single sylable words and sometimes unintelligible lyrics there's definitely a change in the way music is being consumed. This generation and their listening habits have been warped for the greater good of the corporations that control the music. However, I will say that there still is great music out there it's just a matter of going out and finding it. And you're not going to find it by listening to mainstream. Actively looking for music will definitely help rather than asking the question "why is 'such and such' shit?"

DDTarZan · Mar 21, 2016

I am conflicted on this whole topic. What I want is some really good, hard vocals in my rock music. No, not straight belting into a microphone kind of vocals. But what I do like to hear is someone's voice sort of breaking apart as they try to convey their soulful feelings. But the problem with rock music today, not only losing popularity (why??) is that it's actually relatively hard to find, even on the internet. Not all artists try to make their stuff published and well known, and among them you have the ever-growing array of subgenres that make it so confusing that it's a little off-putting to pick up on something completely new.

Honestly I would love to tell you all about some great music that I know, without naming non-popular groups that I like. Tbh I've been so cut out of music that I've very much neglected my ability to create my own, and I don't even know what type of music I love anymore. : personal rant :

Aerocool · Mar 21, 2016

DDTarZan said:
But the problem with rock music today, not only losing popularity (why??)

so true!

Ericzander · Apr 3, 2016

Blaze163 said:
I agree that we should be judging modern music in about 20 years. But my point still stands. What songs from this era will we be looking back on as classics a la Queen or Led Zeppelin? Or whatever your poison is from the past. Hell, maybe you're a fan of the band Poison, I dunno. My point is that there's such a dip in quality in the modern popular media that it's highly unlikely any of it will stand the test of time as anything more than a novelty act. We'll probably remember Gangnam Style for the novelty, Friday for just being pure distilled essence of failure, Let It Go for how bloody long it took to start dying, and maybe Nicki Minaj as the moment we lost our faith in humanity.

You should really check out http://reddit.com/r/lewronggeneration .

People in this thread keep saying over and over that there's a lot of good music today and a lot of crappy music from the the past. The difference is that the crappy music from the past is filtered out and the good music of today has to be taken with the crap. In the future I guarantee that people will complain about how great the music from the 2010's were compared to the garbage in 2030.

And on another note, I love Queen and Led Zeppelin too, but lets not pretend that they haven't had some terrible songs too. Same for The Beatles. We just don't listen to those songs.

GuyInDogSuit said:
People these days have no idea what real talent is. You ask them if they've heard "War Pigs," "Black Dog," "Comfortably Numb," "Ziggy Stardust," or "Redemption Song," and they'll look at you funny.

Unless you're talking to 6 year olds, this isn't true at all. All of those songs are still extremely popular and you can even hear them on the radio still. Maybe they don't know them by name, but they know the sound.

DinohScene · Apr 3, 2016

Only good music is Post-hardcore.

GuyInDogSuit · Apr 3, 2016

Ericzander said:
Unless you're talking to 6 year olds, this isn't true at all. All of those songs are still extremely popular and you can even hear them on the radio still. Maybe they don't know them by name, but they know the sound.

I have talked to 17-year-old millennials that have no clue what those songs are, even when I played it for them.

cvskid · Apr 4, 2016

So something like this could be considered good music???

Ericzander · Apr 4, 2016

cvskid said:
So something like this could be considered good music???

I'm pretty sure that that song was a parody.

Personal favorite song of this decade:

Subtle Demise · Apr 22, 2016

Crystal the Glaceon said:
When something sells, people copy the formula to make their own brand sell as well. The same goes for music.
Hell, all eras of music have their lazy periods. Just looking back at The Beatles craze. Once they started making money, bands similar to them started crawling out of the woodwork. We try to credit the past like these things didn't happen, but they've always been happening, we're just starting to notice it more.

Funny you mention that...During the mid sixties, when the boys were making psychedelic music popular, there was a certain other English rock band that copied and pasted the psychedelic formula that was popular at the time with their first album. That band was Pink Floyd.

osaka35 · Apr 22, 2016

Blaze163 said:
Lali ho!

I hve a very simple question for everyone. Why is modern music such lazy generic garbage?

Don't get me wrong. I know music is all down to personal taste and I'm open to considering that this is just my personal opinion. But to me, modern music is almost all lazy, generic, paint-by-numbers crap that all sounds the same and all has damn near the same lyrics. All this 'rap' about how much money somebody you've never heard of has, and how they're such a 'baller', whatever the fuck that means. I get that music, like all art, goes through peaks and valleys. But it's pretty hard to deny that we're in a valley right now. I'm not saying that all old music is good by default, every era has its fair share of utter shite. But the major sticking point for me is this;

Name one song from the last five years that will be thought of in decades to come the same way we all see songs like Bohemian Rhapsody, November Rain, Stairway to Heaven, etc.

Seriously. Name ONE song that people will look back on as a defining piece of music from the modern era. Hell, make it the last ten years to be on the safe side. I've been trying all day and I can't think of a damn thing.

Thoughts? Opinions? Maybe some examples of modern music that WON'T make my ears tear themselves from my face and run for the hills? 'cause in my new job we have the radio on in the office, and if I hear any more songs like 'Bimmer' by Tyler The Creator (arguably weaponized brown noise to reduce the surplus population) then the work radio is going out the damn window.

Who knows what will be remembered. I ain't no fortune teller. But there are quite a few songs that I feel are lovely. Mostly "indie" stuff.

And who can't forget songs like "my name is jonas"? or "on the radio"? or "murder in the city"? Just me? okay, that's cool. I'm fine with that.

Deleted User · Apr 22, 2016

While the kind of music I listen to is mostly Japanese Pop from the 70's 80's and 90's, I have to disagree. There's tons of good modern music out there, and simply saying "practically all of it shit mmkay" just shows you're not looking very hard at all.

pastaconsumer · Apr 22, 2016

All I will say on the matter as a guy that can (or at the very least attempt to) make "modern music", it takes a lot more work than people give it credit. First, you need to learn what synthesizers do what, and find the sounds you like. Then you need to make melodies, harmonies, etc. until you have an instrumental. Then if you ABSOLUTELY want to, you sing and add it in to the instrumental. There you go, new song. Of course, this can take several days, weeks, months or longer. It all depends on the creativity of the artist. Don't get me wrong though, some of the "trendy" music out there bores me, but all you need to do is look for music. There is no such thing as "good music" because everyone has a different opinion. Best thing I can say is search for what you like. Let the people that like modern music like modern music.
(waiting patiently for incoming shitstorm and my impending doom)

mammastuffing · Apr 22, 2016

I think the main problem with popular music is that it's just an industry. They're not interested in making anything meaningful, it's all just about money.

Elton D. Tiglao · Apr 22, 2016

I think it's not because of the "laziness" of the songs but it's sort of what you listened to when you were younger. I believe you are like 20+ years old so ofc you were listening to music 2000's and below just like me and It's never boring to listen.
Like video games, young people right now directly play ps3, ps4, ipad etc that is why when they play ps1 or snes games they find it boring or "lazy" in your term.

and if you ask me yes there are thrashy songs that doesn't make sense but mostly most songs in our generation gives good thoughts that we cannot just relate about it.

maybe it's the nostalgic feeling on old songs that is why we keep on listening to them

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