So is today's music all crap?

Question

I went to a big wedding yesterday. There were mostly people in their 20s and 30s. There was a live band that played all songs from the 60s and 70s. Billy Joel , Fleetwood Mac, James Taylor, Carole King, The Beatles and even some Elvis. There was no Taylor Swift, Ed Sherrin or Katy Perry. Does this mean that nobody wants to hear current music?

Yannae · Accepted Answer

It isn't. I've seen comments before that music from the past was "real music" and how they wished they were born then. There are also people of That generation who thought the same thing, because they didn't like the music. I know for a fact that there were songs back then that people disliked as much as I generally dislike dubstep.

There is good music out there, but you got to look. You will also disagree with me on what is good music. To be it's something that I can either dance to, want to cover myself, a lyrics that grasps me. Multiple reasons to why I enjoy certain songs. If the song can trigger at least one of these three things, I'll find it a good song. The gems are the songs that have all three.

So having said all that, the song below is a song that has all three qualities that I look for in music for it to be called great, a gem. A song that only has one quality isn't a crap song to me, but I won't listen to it as much.

I hope you enjoy 😳 may I impress you with my taste <3

https://www.youtube.com/embed/4zAThXFOy2c

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

Well, as a guy who went to high school and college from the late 1970s through the mid-1980s and who grew up in a household with a father who was a part-time jazz musician and a mother who played classical piano, I can't say that I am a fan of contemporary music. For me, it is all jazz or 80s music all the time.

However, given the mountains of money and the giant crowds that Taylor Swift is drawing, it may be a bit much to dismiss contemporary music. As the old saying goes, "where you sit depends where you stand."

Probably your taste in music is as much a function of when you were born and what you grew up with. Frankly, I probably could not name a Taylor Swift song if you paid me, but that hardly means that "today's music is all crap."

Really all it means is that you - or at least the people whose wedding you attended - were influenced by a different generation of tastes. Thus, you got a wedding with a touch of nostalgia. Easier to dance to, too!

Bilboes · Accepted Answer

Yes. Everyone can make music nowadays for a relatively low cost and can advertise their music on social medias, which didn't exist back then. Because of this, music is becoming more and more a matter of hype and trend. People are more and more listening to specific music because their peers do and they want to belong in this group. Music is getting botted like crazy on youtube and other platforms, giving the impression that this or that artist is the new trend, pushing people to "listen" to it and pretend it's the best thing they have ever listened to.

If you disagree that most music nowadays is worse, then you haven't listened to music. Nothing original comes out anymore, "artists" are over-using autotune, beats are generic and lyrics are pathetic to say the least.

Most music nowadays isn't for people who like music but for people who like trends and want to belong. It's all about hype and looking cool.

Daniela1982 · Accepted Answer

I can only speak for myself, but I would have been down with the music they played. To be honest, I have never heard a Katy Perry song, and only one by Taylor Swift - "Last Christmas".

Anonymous · Answer

You have to turn off the top 40 mainstream radio if you really want to find good current music.

I have to be honest, most people don’t seem to really have an ear for music. If it’s labeled as a hit, or seems to have widespread appeal that’s good enough for most people.

Thats the thing, there’s timeless music and then there’s the same exact music that you’ve heard time and time and time again and it gets old… yet the classic stations keep playing it, year after year, decade after decade and it’s gotten to the point where it’s like “this is our idea of what’s good? This is our culture? In 2023?”

It’s sad to me… that it would be weird for me to play something new and off the beaten path of what’s even popular nowadays, or say, if I go out golfing with friends… why does it have to be 70’s and 80’s c*ck rock to be socially acceptable?

We’re 50 years on now and it’s like people, society itself even, hasn’t moved on, and it’s almost like popular radio stations are shielding people from the legitimate great music of today, because you have to join Internet forums and communities and be plugged into that whole “online music world” to even know where to look. You just get fed this watered down crap that feels like brainwashing more than it does the stimulating and inspiring form of art that music can be.

I’m just sick of it.

Lliam · Answer

As a guy who grew up during the 60s and 70s and somehow wound up old, I can't really comment because I have a built-in bias. LOL. I'm not even familiar with much of today's music. The stuff that gets airplay pretty much sucks - bad vocals, bad lyrics, bad accompaniment.

So I suspect that you are right. I know a lot of people in their teens, twenties and 30s who prefer music from the 60s, 70s and 80s. That music had originality, great vocals, and talented musicians.

Andres77 · Answer

I looked for it, but I couldn’t find it. Freddie Mercury did an interview and there was some question that had something to do with the new current music trends. his response was something along the lines of (this is paraphrased) It would be great if the new trending music included talent.

The younger generation is no idea how many songs did the current generation has bought right to copy and use their riffs in hundreds and hundreds of song. Most of today’s music does not include instruments. Most of today’s music is electronic and repeated and copied off somebody else.. any rock band that has two guitarist, and a drummer and a keyboard and a lead singer, has more talent than 100 hip-hop or rap names.

”todays music” is vomitus bile.

D_Bone_Steak · Answer

I've recently noticed the same thing... nothing from recent lately. Thought I was just being paranoid, but it does seem new. Where do I notice.. that shit plays constantly in grocery stores and every kind of store. It feels like there was just a few months ago that they all played more recent things. Like Katy Perry and all that.

I don't really care because I just listen to Slipknot or Metallica as soon as I get to my SUV... or NoFx if I've decided to drunk drive. Gotta do something to get that shit music out of my head.

My best guess... there is some sort of social experiment going on right now. They are getting ready to mask us up, lock us down, and inject us... so who knows.

Simslover92 · Answer

No not all music today is crap. It's rare to find good music today but it's out there.

Sonorous · Answer

So funny the difference in perspective because today's music is the best in my opinion. I mainly listen to electronic instrumentals & there are so many good ones today. So many obscure ones that I'd never have found unless I made an effort to find em.

jennifer_bloom · Answer

I think if you go to wedding with people from a certain time period they might like that music. My musical taste is basically songs with positive lyrics that are spiritual or enlightened in nature, even though I don't know Hebrew, I google translations sometimes and I approve of the lyrics.

OlderAndWiser · Answer

A good wedding band "reads" the crowd and has 70's songs to play for a 70's crowd, 50's songs for a 50's crowd, rap songs for a rap crowd, etc.

420Rachel · Answer

Depends on the genre. Rock and heavy metal are still pumping out PLENTY of genuinely badass jams. 🤘🏻🎸

Nikki1989 · Answer

There is still good music around, but you have to hunt for it. You will never find it in the top100 album or single charts. Quality mainstream music died in the 1980s.

CaptainSmartass · Answer

Modern music sucks donkey dong. Simples...

RealMarek · Answer

Do you notice how since 2000 or so the fine and popular arts took a dive and became either nondistinctive or outright repetitive? That’s one sign of a culture in terminal decline.

ShesRad80 · Answer

for the most part yes. however, i give credit where credit is due ed sheeran is a good writer and singer

smilelots · Answer

What do you listen to and like to here is your own and no one else’s I’m 6070s 80s 90s kind of guy I like classic rock country music some blues some instrumental can’t stand rap I believe but I grew up in the best time as far as music goes for me

zagor · Answer

I wouldn't go that far, but there isn't any doubt that the 1960's to 1980's were a period of incredible innovation in music. I think if you compiled a list of the top 1000 songs from 1960 to today, maybe 10% would be from 1990 to now.

DarkLegacy · Answer

Largely yes, but it is the same with TV shows, films etc. The problem with films is that the film makers seem to have run out of ideas. They keep doing remakes.

lightbulb27 · Answer

there's some good but not that its wedding music or dance

Likes2drive · Answer

Could have been the bride and groom’s pick of music but nothing like the oldies, even the young generation likes those years but very few modern songs are what I would like

Jamie05rhs · Answer

James Taylor sucks ass. I hate him so much. When I hear any of his songs, it makes me want to stab myself.

JackCarter · Answer

Relative to older ones, I would personally say kind of yeah

artgorgeous · Answer

Probably because the couple wanted some classic and not some modern crap.

AviatorTom · Answer

It's hard to dance to today's musuvpc. Most people enjoy the classics from 60s, 70s and 80s.

Sparkie460 · Answer

Anything after the 90's is crap in my opinion

OddBeMe · Answer

Every older gen thinks that of younger gen’s music. I remember defending the Beatles to my great grandfather.

LiamJHayden · Answer

Not all, but most current popular music is not interesting to me.

AngryCarl2 · Answer

Pretty much nothing of value since the 1990s, unless you want to consider Progressive Metal.

leahzrc · Answer

current music is terrible

Massageman · Answer

Pretty much, yes.

Redstang88 · Answer

Yeah pretty much

slatyb · Answer

no, you just aren't listing to the right music.

Jkgordon · Answer

This is probably standard music

FunkyMonkee · Answer

ABSOBUTTFUCKINGLUTELY!!

tfan1 · Answer

rap is Crap - they dropped the C

Anonymous · Answer

Nope.

Fuentes · Answer

Yes it is lol even from the rap genre side

spartan55 · Answer

I don't even bother.

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