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Showing Original Post only (View all)I hate to sound like an old fogey [View all]
because Im really not, i graduated high school in the mid 80's, do the math, but i watched some of the American Billboard Awards last night and the state of music today is just awful.
I know every generation thinks their music was the best and the stuff before and after stinks but Im not really that devoted to 80's music that Im not still open to new music and appreciate when i hear something good.
'Let her go' passenger for example, catchy tune, dude has a crazy voice, good song.
So i dont know what happened to music but a majority of it put out today really is crap.
When i discovered music 'rappers delight' had just been released with blondies 'rapture' soon after. there was tower of power, earth wind and fire, the commodores, soul music, r&b.
Within a couple years music just exploded. Rap music hit the scene big. Punk rock. Alternative. Heavy metal. Hair bands. New Wave.
All different kinds of style, many just in their infancy. Any kind of music you liked you could find something happening within that genre and it was new and just being explored.
Rap music hasnt been rap music since the mid 90's. When biggy died I think original rap did too. I remember when there used to be rap music or soul/r&b, you could get either or. Rappers rapped and rarely had any kind of singing going on.
Now its just all blended together as 'hiphop'. Rarely will you find a rap song without some kind of singer on it.
Last night showed me just how far away those days are of good, new, original music just being discovered.
One of the acts was a white female in a cheerleading outfit rapping like she just came out the hood and is two steps ahead of getting busted by the cops for slanging crack and her other white female friend in a cheerleader outfit singing. All i could think of was 'wow'. when i was into rap it was majority african american males struggling with gangs, drugs, racism, police abuse, incarceration, and the daily grind of survival in the ghetto. And even through that most of the music was uplifting and talked about how to rise up out of all that depression and try to better yourself and enjoy life even for one night.
The next act I saw was one of the kardashian sisters, dumb as a post, couldnt even read the cue cards accurately, introducing 'NEW DIRECTION' while they showed a quick video comparing New Direction to the Beatles of all people. Then the band came out and played some awful song. They had instruments but my guess werent playing live.
Then I heard the act coming up after the commercial was going to be Miley Cyrus' tribute to the Beatles and I thought to myself 'please god no' and turned it off at that point. So i dont know how she did honoring them. Did she twerk during 'saw her standing there' i dont know.
Im not old enough and stubborn enough that I cant still appreciate good music when I hear it from new artists, Birdys 'Wings' is another example, the problem is I'm just not hearing much lately. And Im hoping its not just me who notices how bad the music industry has gotten.