Why Is Most Music So Bad Today?

The music industry is a business, their main concern, like any other business, is making money. 30 or 40 years ago, they weren't as experienced as they are today, and were more willing to take chances. As time went on, they saw patterns in certain musicians that made them the most money. Mainstream bands became fewer and fewer as this pattern became clearer to the executives at the major labels. Today, if a band/singer/rapper/whatever doesn't fit a certain proven cookie cutter mold for success, very few people are willing to take a chance on them.

That doesn't mean that no one is, just that to find talented/unique musicians, You have to look harder (Or Maybe just differently) than before.

Times are changing, and so are the mediums. Bands are starting to put out entire new albums directly to the fans through legally downloadable mp3s for nothing or next to it, but you won't find out about it through the radio, You have to look.

The fact is, that there is no shortage of talented musicians out there, and there never was, they just aren't as apparent now. And the way some people say that "all music of this style or today is crap" is ironic to me, because that attitude of not experimenting with new music is the same type of thought that got mainstream music to the state that it's currently in today.

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Hear hear! Well said, man. I fully agree!

And Tuco rules

 

Eh, the very fact that you have to look hard, and harder and maybe even differently than you have to, points to the fact, that whatever you call "talented/unique" musicians may not really be as what they're cooked up to be.

If they are so great, talented and unique, then why aren't they out there in the limelight.

In other words, if a musician is so great, talented, smart, etc., why does he remain obscure.

 

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^ cause what they put in the market is what is making the most money.

Emo/scene is the big thing in the rock/pop world - so they pump out artists that will appeal both to them and to the preps - who do you think buys the most music? White suburbia.
Why did you think rap didn't really blow up until white kids started listening to it?

They see some demand and then they shove that music down everyone's throats. They don't move on to something new until people grow out/tire of the shit they are selling.

 

Does MTV still play music? And if they do, one song 10 times a day? I didnt think they played ten songs total in a day anymore, LOL.

 

I dunno... I don't listen to rap, but I don't think that all rap is crap. Mainstream rap is crap.. repetitive and stuff, but rap can be really powerful, and it harkens back to beat poetry and all of that, which was great.

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I've gotta agree with Rael on pretty much everything.

 

I agree

 

Well, that's just the mainstream happily.

 

This is the main reason why I get my music from Yahoo! It's less expensive than CDs $15/month and I can explore music and listen to a lot of different music. Because yeah, I rarely hear anything cool on the radio, so I have to do a lot of exploring before I find something cool, and I end up deleting a lot of the stuff that I download because it sucks. When my last mp3 player died, before I bought a new one, I had to listen to the radio while driving around in my automobile, because I got tired of my CDs and I didn't want to tote them around anyways. I was appalled at the crap I was hearing; Keith Urban and Carrie Underwood and all that other Pop country that I don't even remember what the acts are called.

 

I just read reviews, talk to other people who are into good music, search it on soulseek and see live music. But yeah, I know it's out there, I get happy everytime I see a new great band and I have the urge to listen to it so it's not really an effort for me. It helps if you already have your connections and ways to find the new stuff of course

 

Because thats the music you are listen to....

 

Good and bad are subjective opinions a lot of the time anyway. Some people find almost anything that doesn't sound like classic rock bad.

 

I'll agree to this. Music does not mean as much to the mass majority like it used to. It's become a disposable thing than anything else. So the quality is compromised for something that could be sold to people who'll buy anything.

At least there are some people who still support music but it declines every day.

 

The sad thing is you can't get famous in today's world unless you sell out.

Thats why I have a plan. If I ever get a record deal I'll do exactly what they tell me to do. Wear the gay clothes, make music videos, advertise stuff.

Then when my record deal is over and I have a couple million I announce them for the frauds they are (meaning the record company). Then I'll release an album full of my own songs that I would usually write.

Slim chance, but if it worked I'd be happy lol.

 

This article is stupid. There was a bunch of fairly good mainstream music in the 80s and 90s, and even today there are a few good bands, especially the ones taking rap and hip-hop to cool new directions (because apparently mainstream music is all the author cares about). Commercial music has always been shitty, and there's more of it then ever today, shoved down our throats even harder. But look at the lists of the article. The Sound of Music Soundtrack was the number one album 30 years ago, compared to Gnarls Barkley in 2006 (at number two). Sound of Music Soundtrack? Lame. Gnarls Barkley is a good band.

 

A part of what makes new music pale in comparison is that it's set against a backdrop of great music. Artists have a lot to live up to, and that can mar what they're actually creating.

There's also the problem that almost every musician these days is in it to make money, so that there is no underground aside from bands that mostly suck. Because if bands get a following, someone tries to buy them. We desperately need some really great bands that are also dead set against signing to major labels and becoming a part of the industry, even at their own cost. Art has been co-opted -- it isn't dangerous anymore. It's BOOORING.

 

Not to be rude but shut the fuck up. You don't go looking for new music beyond the top 40, you have no right to comment on it.

 

The article makes some valid points but it's easy to blame how music sucks and the nine yards that goes with it. The public buys into this and builds it up, and then starts saying it sucks after Corporate America made its money. There's way too much focus on the money side and not enough on the creative side. There are lots of creative artists but a lot of them won't get the time of day.

Plus a lot of the younger musicians have very little to say in their music. It's not connecting with an audience for the long haul so many of them have a short live span.

Everyone should support music that they believe in and don't worry about everything else.

 

Well, of course it's not good music, because it's commercial. Not only today, but before too, commercial music ruled the charts and everything. Usually, good artists like to stay underground, because once commercialized, they will worry about the money, and not the creativity and the talent. So of course, like every other buisness, music had to turn to a money - make buisness, invaded by americans who think that posing half nude with no meaningful lyrics and music, will bring them money. I can't say they are not smart, because they were right. People get brainwashed, and only 3%, maybe even less, of the earth population, really knows what music is, and what it is all about.