music

This take sounds like someone who listens to video game soundtracks exclusively.

Just saying it's one of the takes of all time.

There's more music in the world than you can listen to in your lifetime.

https://youtu.be/itRWssMSuvw (fun and talented "pop" band)

https://youtu.be/KaNHvkeQ2wE (same people different day of the week)

https://youtu.be/ggE3OwlPIYc (just a good atmospheric black metal band with a PoC front man and it's just better than other black metal imo)

https://youtu.be/47XlUL6sRow (radio friendly jazz band and mercury award winners)

Try harder lmao, those are 4 random bands my bf showed me in the last month alone and none of them are basic/slop/mid/manufactured garbage. Just people venting themselves into sound and it's so good.

Stop being a grump

I just listened to a bunch of pop tracks

The charts have literally never been reliably good, it is useful to remember this imo. I think "musics" generally is better now than it has been because there's a very healthy amount of new music outside of the Billboard Hot 100 ass mainstream.

To stop being an elitist about music is probably the one thing that made me closer to inner peace and open to other humans

One day I realised that most of what I used to hate was what people who were less privileged than me enjoyed

Now I agree that there is a mentally destructive Kulturindustrie that robs the people of their popular musical practices by commodifying it.

But it's also important to realise that most traditional non-commodified music wasn't some advanced shit either and was very much looked down upon by the ruling classes before becoming cool and authentic

I'll go one further, mainstream pop and the top streamed music right now - literally the most mainstream of the mainstream - goes hard. looking at Spotify top charts for the week, I'm seeing BIRDS OF A FEATHER by Billie Eilish and Taste by Sabrina Carpenter, which are two very good high-production mainstream pop songs. better than I ever remember pop being in the rest of my life. brat came out this summer. Tyler the Creator just dropped CHROMAKOPIA. and slightly off mainstream but still very popular were Camila Cabello, Remi Wolf, Magdalena Bay, honestly this is like the best I imagine pop music has been in decades. what's the issue?

Shut up and listen to some Gizz. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=koQvZI4ewGg

Don't listen to that crap then?

Bad music wil always exist but the cheap and easy stuff is what makes profit and gets pushed by record labels. Stop looking there.

Theres not like 100 years of recorded music one could sift through at any moment. Or the insane amount of content on Soundcloud or Bandcamp. Or have an experience in meat world seeing live music.

As someone who can play music professionally, I think most people who have this criticism suffer from music illiteracy. Like in a world where art isnt a priority, maybe do some self-crit that maybe your ears arent that experienced, that you have a limited listening palette and you don't know as much as you think you do. Then ask why is this so? Like corporate slop has definitely shaped the musical landscape and has poisoned anyones mind who has partaked but why haven't you ventured much further?

ok boomer

Lol you're wrong

It goes both ways, mainstream music has achieved the production rate to pump out so much shit that it can overshadow everything, but at the same time access to instruments and recording software and music repositories has improved too so really small musicians are putting out gems out there that can hardly be found, but they still exist

Shoot cum piss blood shit puke? That's a GWAR show

Green Day put out a new album and it's pretty good

nah squabble up

Some of my favorite artists/bands released best albums ever in the last few years after being completely mid (relative to themselves) for the last decade or so

Capitalism is destroying music (and all of the arts) and it is only going to get harder to find good music. Just wait until they start pumping out AI songs that get played everywhere you go

Music the past few years has genuinely been really good. Expand your tastes, go look for new music, and don't base everything off what's popular or on the radio.