Did music start to sound bad after a certain decade? If so, which decade did this occur?

[Anonymous]

[McLlovin]

This is the most difficult question ever. Simply because its all perspective. Some will say the 90s or 2000s or the present. I believe each decade is like a painting. First you need to flesh out your foundation then you add on colors and shape and etc.

every decade added something new and gathered progression and a lot of inspiration from the decade previous from it. Some of the song you think are originals are actually beats taken from an old song you dont know about. so did the music begin to sound bad? Depends on who you ask.

[WindAtMyBack]

The beginning of the 70s was great. The end of the 70s sucked. I call the late 70s the dark ages of rock. Music lost it's soul and it's groove.

Late 70s had disco, and everyone knows disco sucks. Not just the music, but the whole scene. Frank Zappa summed it up nicely, but I think it went right over the head of the disco boys. They were too busy snorting lines and combing their hair.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZHXq_4fIlR4

Not just disco. Good soulful blues rock got replaced by hard driving guitar heroes and shredders. Glam, punk and goth didn't know when to stop and went off the deep end.

Music made a slight comeback in the 80s, except it was too studio. By the 90s it regained some of it's soul, but it never did get it's groove back.

[Nikki1989]

If you study music history, you will see the downfall started in the mid 80s. Mainstream music become very corporate and became the property of record companies and producers. Fast-forward to now and 99% of good music only exists in the underground as most music is made on computers with very little to no musicianship and has no musical integrity.

[rachel776b]

i would argue in 1990, and 100% the fault of Clive Davis, who made music sound good in the 60s, 70s and 80s. he started out as a record company lawyer

(that's Whitney Houston around 1980)

[FreyaRed]

Now are Mr. Shekelbergs and their content companies just old fat ticks who don't keep any space for young content creators

[rachel776b]

@FreyaRed i should have said Dionne Warwick, it was her birthday yesterday

[IknowthatIdontKnow09]

Different people will answer you differently. For example, for me, starting in 2000, the quality of rock music began to decline with its respective exceptions. The rock music started to lose meaning for me. What I don't mean is that there haven't been or aren't good rock groups in the last 23 years. ll depends on each person.

[FunkyMonkee]

First, it started to sound like shit in the mid `70's, the disco era. Then it got really good again a few years later in the new wave era and the second psych era. Then, it started to suck again during the mid `80's, the rap era! And it's gone downhill ever since!!

[Sonorous]

I think that if music is starting to sound bad to someone, then they need to branch out more. Try out new genres & try to find obscure artists they might like.

[trellbrown84]

I can tell you precisely what timpoint. All throughout 1998 into the fall of 1999 there was a marked difference and change in the sound and styles of music, specifically rap, hip hop, and pop.

Britney Spears and Boy bands were the first musicians I soundly rejected.

Music has only gotten progressively worse since then.

[FreyaRed]

Every decade has its hits. In my opinion 2020 ties started very disappointing, it's just recycling of content from the past.

[OGname2]

I don't think so. I think people who say music stopped being good after X just got stuck in a music rut and didn't find the right musicians to listen to for them.

[Darklydarkened]

Late 2000's

It's commodified and nowadays, mainstream music is designed to be marketable rather than artistic

[RageBabe]

In my opinion, music began to deteriorate after the early 2000s.

[andreasderjuengere]

How can music sound bad?

Anyhow, I have an impression that from the 90's onwards humankind has lost much of its creativity.

[jennifer_bloom]

I stopped liking new music after around 2010.

[DJB72]

From the age of around 23-25 for the next ten to 70 years

[exitseven]

The last good album to come out was Springsteens Born to Run in 1975.

[getwiththepg]

Around the mid 2010’s when anyone could record from their room & be a star the next day

[Minahh]

Honestly no. There can be good music found in every decade. A

[Anonymous]

The only music I like is some anime opening and OST's

[Anonymous]

I think it’s the opposite. Music got better as time went on.

[FenixG45]

I think music started to sound bad around 2010. Since then, it's all non-descript, snap, crackle and pop, cookie-cutter, artificial boy or girl bands!

[Anonymous]

I was thinking that...

[DextroShade]

Music started to suck in the 2010's.

[CrimsonAngel09]

After 2009.

[bededazzle]

2010

[DaBiggestBird]

Yes.

[In_Trance]

Not at all