No, I'm not saying all modern music is awful, but majority of the music that gets trending is terrible. Yet another girl that twerks for 3 minutes with a trap beat or some crappy awful rap song. Or Ariana Grande talking about another break up in the most boring cliché way possible. I guess since music is easier than ever to produce, now any clown can call themselves an artist.

Just keep in mind... The trending music in past decades was MJ, Madonna, Cindy Lauper, Cher, many, MANY decent to great rock bands and ballads. And I'm not forgetting the rap, rnb and hip hop, 2pac, salt n Peppa, en vogue, NWA, Biggie... There's an objective quality in these artist missing in majority of modern acts.

Hell, I would argue that decent artists from the 2010s like Taylor swift and Drake are getting lazy with their music as well, their songs being more focused on following those trending kids with awful music.

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[–] superkret@feddit.org 28 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Music is so much better than it used to be, it's fucking incredible.
I volunteer at a non-profit youth center. We host a lot of concerts, so basically I have a part time job as a booker.
The quality of the bands who are willing to play for $200 a night (which covers the cost of getting there and back, but not even a bed for the night) is insane!
Half the bands that play there for next to nothing are just as good as any that made it big 20 years ago.
And they're all on Spotify, so you can listen to any band you like as much as you like.

Trending music may suck, just ignore it.

[–] AncientFutureNow@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

$200 was the going rate in 1996. Now it's just greed on behalf of the ones buying talent.

It's all very depressing.

[–] l_b_i@yiffit.net 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Everybody always says modern pop music is terrible, your suffering from recency bias. Take a look at top 40s from 20 years ago. You'll probably see a bunch of songs you forgot about because they didn't stand the test of time. Old music isn't better, you just only still hear the good stuff.

[–] Hatred@endlesstalk.org -3 points 3 months ago

False, I also check one hit wonders, the people could sing and perform. Nowadays, shit there's compilations of artists being incapable of performing without the magic of auto tune and the music isn't as elaborated

[–] UpperBroccoli@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Feeling the urge to chase kids off your lawn yet, them young whippersnappers?

[–] Hatred@endlesstalk.org -2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

If that's all you get, from this, you're missing my point

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.org 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like you get your recommendations via Short Media Content and or Music TV? Perhaps consider using other means like last.fm? Or looking up genres you like and see what other artists are new to it, check them out?

[–] Hatred@endlesstalk.org -1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

You're missing my point. Back then I didn't needed to search beyond the popular acts to find great music.

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.org 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Well tough luck in this corpo world.

Good acts need to be found, deal with it.

[–] norimee@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

You know, my grandfather said something quite similar back in the days...
So did his grandfather and every generation before them.

[–] RabbitMix@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 3 months ago

most of the popular stuff was bad back then too, you just got introduced to it when you were young so you've got rose tinted glasses for it now.

[–] bizarroland@fedia.io 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's probably because your particular demographic is not what they are targeting with today's music.

The real money is in the young kids who use their allowance and part-time job earnings to purchase albums and to buy individual songs and to buy merch for bands.

If your particular aesthetics are stuck with what was popular in the 90s and early 2000s, chances are you have kids and responsibilities and you don't have the time or financial bandwidth to obsess over the latest trend in music.

Also, as we grow older we tend to grow more segregated and apart from our peers so we have less things to talk about and less things to relate to with music.

Those factors combine basically mean that you are aging out of pop music.

And that's okay, I recommend that you start looking more into independent labels and small bands with little following, you are more likely to find music that caters to your tastes if you put the work in, but Mass music is no longer catering to you and your preferences so it's up to you whether you want to live in a world without new music or not.

[–] Hatred@endlesstalk.org 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I don't have anything close to a family.... I don't see the relation anyways. Music currently is getting dumber and worse. I'm not offended, I'm not an old man saying that this music corrupts the young people, that is stupidity. But is definitely worse. Yeah it's catering kids... With worse music.

[–] MicrondeMMMMMMM@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 3 months ago

I dunno I don't listen to mainstream music, Gojira, Lorna shore and LoG are good and they are relatively new bands, so music definitely isn't going to shit, it's just that given a good song there is a high probability it didn't come out this year since good music has existed for many years. (Hopefully that makes sense)

[–] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Modern popular music is just different now. I don't know that I'd say it's "better" or "worse", it's just different music being marketed to a younger generation. Judging from your list of acceptable pop acts that seems to end sometimes in the early 90s, I'd say you're probably going to be disappointed a lot of the time because there just aren't that many 20 something age musicians who want to dedicate their careers to recreating their parents music lol

[–] Hatred@endlesstalk.org -2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

False. I want risk and evolution but not lack of effort and just clowns trying to become viral. Rihanna, for example, is one of the few modern artists that feels like a genuine REAL artist,I don't see compromises and see pure real talent.

Linkin park in 2010 had a very avant-garde album, again nothing old school but it's was real good music.

On the other hand, Greta van whatever did a mediocre Led Zeppelin wannabe album, old sound right, bait for old people. It was insincere.

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.org 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I want risk and evolution but not lack of effort and just clowns trying to become viral.

you want risk and evolution? Independents it is then, because corpos hate taking risks, they like to play it safe by regurgitating old shit.

Same thing in the Videogames or hell any creative space.

[–] Hatred@endlesstalk.org -1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

And that's my point though. It wasn't like that before, not all the time anyways

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.org 3 points 3 months ago

so what's your plan then? Wallow in nostalgia or adapt and go indie?

[–] HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Rick Beato

[–] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 4 points 3 months ago

Yep. We've tried this recently and it didn't go over very well.

[–] Artemis@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Totally agree. I'm relatively young-ish still (I'd like to think 😅) but haven't listened to much new music at all in the past 10 years, and especially now...I find myself constantly going back from the 90s to maybe the 2010s, with some older classics sprinkled in as well.

[–] Hatred@endlesstalk.org 1 points 3 months ago

Thank you

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Message From Mercury is a band from a guy I game jammed with. They're incredible. Ariana Grande and Social House made a banger together. We're dripping in incredibly shit and its never been more accessible. I think you're digging yourself a cloud yelling hole.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It's because they don't bother finding artists and cultivating original talent now. That's risky. It's far more lucrative to find an attractive person, teach them to dance, and have them perform a bunch of songs that were written using a proven algorithm. A bunch of people are going to argue with me, but industry insiders have admitted this on more than one occasion. I've read articles and interviews about it. No, I will not be providing evidence. It's out there to find if you want to look for it.