music and how its going downhill
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Am i the only one thinking, or wondering, what has happened to music? I am not a music expert by any means, but it is very important to me because of how deeply i connect with it. So its like a friend... and i'm worried.
Being a teenager and having not lived through the golden ages of music, there is no way for me fully understand what is going on. When i look back to the classic rock bands or people (Jimi Hendrix, The Mammas & The Papas, AC/DC, Santana, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Grateful Dead, CCR, Kiss, Alice Cooper, Ozzy Osbourne, Journey, Kansas, BOC, The Guess Who, etc....) or when i think of classic rap/hip-hop/motown(Grandmaster Flash, Run-DMC, Michael Jackson, LL Cool J, Coolio, Tupac Shakur, B-I-G, Dr. Dre, The Temptations, Stevie Wonder, Diana Ross, The Supremes, etc...), i feel bad for my generation's depravation of real music. Music that comes out these days only has one of the three components for great songs, if that.
A song needs 3 things to be cream of the crop:
- A beat that people connect to and can dance to
- guitar riffs and/or wicked shredding
- a message you can connect with
Music these days seems to have only one of those three if they are lucky. Most songs just try to sound "preeety", and because of the lowered standards for music they get away with it. I do not know of many people in my generation who can name a real reason why they liked a song.
Music is heading downhill at an alarming rate. If you are someone over 30, or have knowledge of classic music, please..please.. go edjucate someone about real music about how it sounds and what it does. If you're under 30 and have no knowledge of classics, i plead to you... check out some of the artists i have listed; i promise if you have even a small hint of an ear for real music, they will not dissapoint.
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I listen to the radio and satellite radio always hoping to hear something wonderful and is usually something with just those you mention...riffs ..beat ..n lyrics but got have a beautiful voice. :) good Hub!
Testify, my friend. I'm really getting sick of listening to machine made beats on radios, along with people who pretend to sing and people who pretend to be able to write songs
I can't speak to any other genre but I can tell you what I think happened to rap. There was a time when rap like any other form of music had different variety of sub-cultures within itself. You had the Gangster rap, spiritual rap, Club music, political rap..etc. But no matter what your style was the major labels all insisted that you had earned your battle scars before they even looked at you. Meaning you did numerous shows and had established at least a modest following. After you were signed there was oversight in place. You were not allowed to put out just anything. I know people that were dropped from labels in the past for finishing horrible albums with no direction nor substance or not taken direction from experts. Then came the joint ventures and production deals. The industry gave in to allowing artist to establish there own labels with some of them acting as distributors. This meant that the owners, having no real industry experience or eye for talent could bring in anybody. That was made worse by the fact that this generation came of age when gangster rap was dominating the scene. So instead of it dying out and the next subculture making its run, the youngsters with a new open path to the industry kept it alive. That’s what your hearing now in rap….I have a ton of money, I sleep with any *&^% I want, and I’m a killer. You hear the first song on the album and you know what the rest of it is about.
I don’t know what happened to the other genres but I hear the same childish and amateurish sound throughout them all. The truth of the matter is only elite talent should be allowed such platforms period. That is if they expect us to keep spending hard earned money anyway.
Note: You lost me adding Coolio to that list.
We need more artists like mumford and sons
Olde Cashmere Level 4 Commenter 3 years ago
Man, I couldn't agree with you more. There is still some good stuff coming out though, you just have to look through the clutter. Unfortunately, not many people have the patience to keep an open mind and go into the past where the real gems wait to be discovered.