<p>Don't you hate it when people say "music sucks these days". I find it very annoying, because these people don't know what music is. We live in a world were there's a stream of entertainment coming to us. With sites like YouTube we can find bands that aren't on the radio, you can go to a venue and listen to bands that won't get the big sold out stadiums. I find that these people look to television and radio to find music for them, you have to find what you like in your own. And another thing, I feel that no music is "bad", music is here to entertain that's its true intent. If a song makes a person happy and their enjoying it, isn't the song doing its whole point of making a person happy. If a person wants to party to a manufactured pretentious pop star then let them be, if another person wants to party to death metal let them be also. My point is, just because a person like a classic rock band that does not make them better, just because a person likes a top 40 act that does not make them less of a human. And this it the last thing, just because a song came out 30yrs ago does not mean its better than every single song that came out in 2011, that is not true. Don't judge a song by its age and by what other people think. Just because "The XYZ's" had a critically acclaimed album in the 70s does not mean that everyone who does not like it is a turd. Don't get me wrong, I like all music, which is why i'm saying this. Many people who claim so and so song is better because it came out in the 90s usually has a narrow view of the world. </p>
<p>We’re just in a new era of music. I wouldn’t be shocked if, during the 80s, people thought that 80s music sucked too; there’s always haters to everything. Everyone’s just under the belief that use of electronics in music automatically denounces those artists as clowns with no talent. </p>
<p>This is also coming from a person whose iPod ranges from rock to jazz to marching band music to (insert here).</p>
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<p>I haven’t really met any people that you describe except they were probably referring to top 40 songs, which, in their case, I understand to a degree.</p>
<p>I think the difference is nowadays it is much easier to make and distribute music so of course there is going to be a lot of crap. Anyone with a computer and a microphone can “record a song”, upload it to the internet and pretend it is good music. Thirty years ago unless you were really talented you people weren’t going to hear your music. And with the whole top 40 thing people like catchy music and top 40 music is usually catchy. Its fun to ride around in your car listening and singing along to catchy fun top 40 songs. Not everyone feels the need to be a pretentious ****** about the type of music they listen too.
-this is coming from someone who is pretty pretentious about their music library. I know the music that I like is better quality than all of the stuff they play on the radio but that doesn’t stop me from having a few top 40 songs in my itunes library (although they are mostly there ironically)</p>
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<li>What almost there said.</li>
<li>South Park got it right in that last episode (NOT the final episode of the series, just the last episode that aired so far).</li>
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<p>It’s the autotune. I want to hear people with talent and voice. Spears had a voice in the 90’s.</p>
<p>A majority of new songs seem to have the same techno beat. Tough, that is pretty much needed when singers use the auto-tune.</p>
<p>Now, I still do listen to today’s hits in addition to classic since I am ADD when it comes to music. I do like many of the songs today, so I don’t mean to bash it.</p>
<p>My view is that people judge the skill behind the singing, not so much everything else.</p>
<p>People look at the top songs on the billboards and see almost all of them have autotune or meaningless lyrics and criticize them as sucky, which has reasoning to it.</p>
<p>If you saw people going head over heels for a person who was extremely lucky and won (something), and the same people don’t go crazy for the person who was good because of skill, wouldn’t you say those fans were pretty stupid?</p>
<p>Of course, luck isn’t the issue here. What’s happened is that kids these days get hyped up on autotuned songs and messages that are beyond cliche that they almost worship the nearly talentless artists and reject ‘good’ music/singing. </p>
<p>You look at people who think Justin Bieber is amazing and you wonder why the **** lack of talent beats talent. Same thing for many top songs/artists.</p>
<p>My take on it is that a lot of people seem to like the ~popular music because other people like it.</p>
<p>A lot of top 40 is garbage. Sorry. They take very little talent or thought (especially intelligent thought) to produce. Many “singers” actually can’t carry a tune, but they have autotune.</p>
<p>There are bands out there that put a lot of talent and effort into their music, from writing meaningful lyrics, to composing the actual music. </p>
<p>Sure, listen to catchy songs.</p>
<p>Though people fail to distinguish a lot of the time from the majority of top forty music and music with merit.</p>
<p>@HeWhoPwnz Not really Mumford & Sons, Adele, Arctic Monkeys and The Black Keys just to name a few are doing really well on the charts with their albums. </p>
<p>The internet has made it easier for many indie bands to distribute their records (I’m talking about the really talented ones) before you had to find your music on the radio or on MTV. And many of these acts were rarely “indie”. I think today’s music is much, much more eclectic than ever before.</p>
<p>And believe it or not, a legend created auto-tune. It was Cher back in the 90s with this song <a href=“- YouTube”>- YouTube;
<p>I’m doing this thing before I go off to college in the fall, and it’s called “trying not to be such a pretentious, cynical d-bag.” I’m protective of my tastes, and they haven’t changed significantly, but I’ve recognized that different music serves different functions. When I’m driving in the car with friends, Nick Drake doesn’t get me in the mood, Kid Cudi does. If I’m reading or relaxing, looking out the window, or learning how to play a song on the guitar, it’s not going to be time for a Ke$ha song. It’s going to be Dylan, or Elliott, or Alexi Murdoch time. It’s ridiculous to try to objectively judge music altogether; not only is music almost entirely subjective (emotional, unless you’re judging how intricate the music is technically, which I’m sure some of us do), it’s comparing apples and oranges.</p>
<p>That being said, you won’t find any Nicki Minaj on my iPod. That ****'s what vevo’s for.</p>
<p>Or when people tell you, you have bad taste in music. It’s like come on really?!? I don’t judge people based on the music they listen to. That’s why there is different genre’s of music, so there’s a chance of pleaseing everybody. </p>
<p>And I also disagree with people saying some music isn’t music. I hear this a lot with teen pop starts. Just because you don’t prefer them it doesn’t mean it music.</p>
<p>You can say a lot of things about pop music but you can’t say really say that most of them aren’t talented. Justin Bieber is an incredibly talented singer. He wouldn’t be where he was if he wasn’t. His cuteness helps his marketability which was definitely a factor when the recording label signed him but if he wasn’t a talented singer he wouldn’t be where he is today. There are millions of adorable kids with unique hairstyles but they don’t all have the talent that he does.</p>