The commercials for the Grammy Awards show make me feel so OLD!!!

[NurseJackie]

The commercials for the Grammy Awards show make me feel so OLD!!!

The announcer excitedly boasts about all the singers who will perform and/or who have been nominated for an award, and I only truly recognize ONE name out of them all.

Sigh.

[Brainstormy]

1. I recognize more than one, but

for the most part, what the kids call "music" today is enough to make me feel old.

[hlthe2b]

2. They make me feel sad....

At the risk of sounding like a stereotype, music today-- with some notable exceptions-- is not the quality of decades past. When concerts have to ramp up the $$ techno special effects to make up for what is lacking... case made.

[dalton99a]

3. They Really Don't Make Music Like They Used To

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/07/opinion/what-these-grammy-songs-tell-us-about-the-loudness-wars.html

They Really Don’t Make Music Like They Used To
If the Eagles or Marvin Gaye fan in your life is complaining about this year’s Grammy songs, this might be why.
By Greg Milner
Feb. 7, 2019

Sunday will include a subtext of cross-generational carping: “They don’t make music the way they used to,” the boomers and Gen Xers will mutter. And they’ll be right. Music today, at least most of it, is fundamentally different from what it was in the days of yore — the 1970s and 80s.

Last year, the industry celebrated a sales milestone. The Recording Industry Association of America certified that the Eagles’ “Their Greatest Hits (1971-1975),” was the best-selling album of all time, with sales of 38 million. (The formula took account of vinyl, CD and streaming purchases. Purists will have to put aside the fact that a greatest hits collection is not really an LP album as most of us know it.)

It was a full-circle moment — the album, released almost exactly 43 years ago, was the first to be awarded platinum status (sales of one million), an evocative reminder that songs were once commodities so valuable that millions of people would even buy them in repackaged form. It was also a taken as a quiet victory for people who believe that music today is too loud.

By “too loud,” I don’t mean you can’t crank the Eagles, if that’s your thing. I’m talking about loudness as a measure of sound within a particular recording. Our ears perceive loudness in an environment by reflexively noting the dynamic range — the difference between the softest and loudest sounds (in this case, the environment is the recording itself, not the room you are playing it in). A blaring television commercial may make us turn down the volume of our sets, but its sonic peaks are no higher than the regular programming preceding it. The commercial just hits those peaks more often. A radio station playing classical music may be broadcasting a signal with the same maximum strength as one playing hip-hop, but the classical station broadcast will hit that peak perhaps once every few minutes, while the hip-hop station’s signal may peak several times per second.

[NurseJackie]

4. Great post and link... thank you!

[lunasun]

5. "Too loud "

They Really Don’t Make Music Like They Used To ... for how long,how many generations have had some people say that at some point as new genres evolve?