Why new music sucks.

" There’s evidence that the brain’s ability to make subtle distinctions between different chords, rhythms and melodies gets worse with age. "
This is now my excuse for bad song writing as well.
 
There is good and bad music in every decade. And there are ways to keep in touch with it (most creative movements are not visible by mass media outlets). It’s all a matter of motivation to find them.



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Old people and new music are both unqualified categories.

Most old people don't know shit about anything even from their own time (and especially not before). And can't really be in the same category as people the same age or older who actually hear music instead of complaining about how women and black people dress.

And really no one likes all new music at any point in their lives, so telling young people to defend some rap song you heard like five years ago and hated isn't really very fair.
 
Bones McHorror said:
Old people and new music are both unqualified categories.

Most old people don't know shit about anything even from their own time (and especially not before). And can't really be in the same category as people the same age or older who actually hear music instead of complaining about how women and black people dress.

And really no one likes all new music at any point in their lives, so telling young people to defend some rap song you heard like five years ago and hated isn't really very fair.
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That's a rather broad brush...
 
Strangely - many of my current 'favorite' bands are not from 'my' era of music - which should be mid-70s to mid 80s. A lot of the bands I listen to a lot now are mid 80s - mid 90s.

I think my main 'old person' gripe right now is that the evolution of technology has allowed truly mediocre talents to appear to be talented. I mean, marketing has always been a big part of popular music, but it was a lot harder to bury a borderline talent with marketable looks back in the 60s to 80s. It happened, but it was no not as easy as it is now.

But music now does not suck. There is still awesome music being made and I listen to it and dig it. it just rarely makes it onto the radio so it is not the pablum that the marketing machine wants you to think is the real music now.
 
Denverdave said:
Strangely - many of my current 'favorite' bands are not from 'my' era of music - which should be mid-70s to mid 80s. A lot of the bands I listen to a lot now are mid 80s - mid 90s.

I think my main 'old person' gripe right now is that the evolution of technology has allowed truly mediocre talents to appear to be talented. I mean, marketing has always been a big part of popular music, but it was a lot harder to bury a borderline talent with marketable looks back in the 60s to 80s. It happened, but it was no not as easy as it is now.

But music now does not suck. There is still awesome music being made and I listen to it and dig it. it just rarely makes it onto the radio so it is not the pablum that the marketing machine wants you to think is the real music now.
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You've pretty much summed up Katy Perry's whole career.

I need to keep abreast of modern stuff for the DJing but, truly there's maybe 3 or 4 songs years on year that I know DJs will still be playing in 10+ years time, the rest of it is disposable music by numbers. I watched a documentary a while ago about Max Martin and his crew who did the tunes for Britney Spears etc... and they literally worked out a formula for writing songs (it was a pretty interesting documentary btw if you can find it) and now we've got to a point where algorithms are being brought into music.

OK ABBA had a 'formula', Elvis had one but it's a far cry from the cynical way modern pop is written and produced in my opinion.
 
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