Is Music dying?

[San]

Ermmm yeah, sure. I'm still enjoying my musics. Are you one of those quantity over quality people?

No, I'm one of those people who hates rap and all those stupid celebrities. Instead I prefer interesting stuff like an instrumental or Pat Benetar. Not the low-quality music today's popular "musicians" produce.

lololol

[Frihetskommunen]

Ermmm yeah, sure. I'm still enjoying my musics. Are you one of those quantity over quality people?

No, I'm one of those people who hates rap and all those stupid celebrities. Instead I prefer interesting stuff like an instrumental or Pat Benetar. Not the low-quality music today's popular "musicians" produce.

So you are judging all of music on what's popular? In that case, didn't music die in the 80's with all of its commercialized synth-pop and ridicoulus hair metal bands? Or at the very least in the late 90's with Spice Girls and all of the millions of boy bands that were popular then?
Bad music has been popular since the beginning of pop music, doesn't mean music is dying.
EDIT: Also, way to put of an entire versatile genre based on a few examples of bad popular artists. There are great rappers out there, most may not be on the radio but they are definitely out there.

[Rutron aequalitatis]

Yes! Music itself quality wise is become almost dead. Music before was amazing in many ways. I'm not saying that all modern music is bad, but compared with music even from 20 years ago it is atrocious, what happened to quality music, some music now is just laughable!

[DesAnges]

Yes! Music itself quality wise is become almost dead. Music before was amazing in many ways. I'm not saying that all modern music is bad, but compared with music even from 20 years ago it is atrocious, what happened to quality music, some music now is just laughable!

As has been said several times in the thread now, the reason the quality of years past seems higher is because only the good stuff was worth preserving. There was still plenty of pap around in the 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s.

[Rutron aequalitatis]

Yes! Music itself quality wise is become almost dead. Music before was amazing in many ways. I'm not saying that all modern music is bad, but compared with music even from 20 years ago it is atrocious, what happened to quality music, some music now is just laughable!

As has been said several times in the thread now, the reason the quality of years past seems higher is because only the good stuff was worth preserving. There was still plenty of pap around in the 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s.

Well yes, but there is a so little now ,in my opinion, that could be called good music. For my taste music is dying, but i know many songs in the past was bad, its just my opinion, that music now is dying, the new music not the classics, although even then many people don't listen to that, but its just taste and new music isn't mine.

[San]

As has been said several times in the thread now, the reason the quality of years past seems higher is because only the good stuff was worth preserving. There was still plenty of pap around in the 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s.

Well yes, but there is a so little now ,in my opinion, that could be called good music. For my taste music is dying, but i know many songs in the past was bad, its just my opinion, that music now is dying, the new music not the classics, although even then many people don't listen to that, but its just taste and new music isn't mine.

something tells me you've only listened to 6 different songs released in the last five years

[Ardavia]

Music is not dying as long as we have this, this and this.

nuff said

[Iuronia]

No, it is not. Pop music can pop itself into oblivion, for all I care. There is a myriad of bands making music I like, so I don't think I can allude much to the moribundity of music.

[DesAnges]

As has been said several times in the thread now, the reason the quality of years past seems higher is because only the good stuff was worth preserving. There was still plenty of pap around in the 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s.

Well yes, but there is a so little now ,in my opinion, that could be called good music. For my taste music is dying, but i know many songs in the past was bad, its just my opinion, that music now is dying, the new music not the classics, although even then many people don't listen to that, but its just taste and new music isn't mine.

A list of albums released this year: viewtopic.php?p=17725993#p17725993

Go and listen to them, and tell me music is dying.

[Decanect]

Tell me what music is without instruments.

So choral music and a capella isn't music? Huh, news to me.

Also, good god some of you people are pretentious.

[DesAnges]

Tell me what music is without instruments.

So choral music and a capella isn't music? Huh, news to me.

Also, good god some of you people are pretentious.

He might be counting 'voice' as an instrument, which is correct to do in some ways.

But then he should be counting rap as 'voice' by the same methodology.

[Person012345]

So choral music and a capella isn't music? Huh, news to me.

Also, good god some of you people are pretentious.

He might be counting 'voice' as an instrument, which is correct to do in some ways.

But then he should be counting rap as 'voice' by the same methodology.

No because all rap = INTERIOR CROCODILE ALLIGATOR I DRIVE A CHEVROLET MOVIE THEATRE and is therefore not music. Or something.

I personally count the voice as an instrument because it is. Rap is music, it's just not my favourite genre of music.

[Corrian]

Yes! Music itself quality wise is become almost dead. Music before was amazing in many ways. I'm not saying that all modern music is bad, but compared with music even from 20 years ago it is atrocious, what happened to quality music, some music now is just laughable!

The only problem here is generalizing the entirety of a music generation based off of the radio.

Well yes, but there is a so little now ,in my opinion, that could be called good music. For my taste music is dying, but i know many songs in the past was bad, its just my opinion, that music now is dying, the new music not the classics, although even then many people don't listen to that, but its just taste and new music isn't mine.

Then stop listening to the radio, and dig for music elsewhere. It's that simple, and has been said time and time again.

[Decanect]

He might be counting 'voice' as an instrument, which is correct to do in some ways.

But then he should be counting rap as 'voice' by the same methodology.

No because all rap = INTERIOR CROCODILE ALLIGATOR I DRIVE A CHEVROLET MOVIE THEATRE and is therefore not music. Or something.

I personally count the voice as an instrument because it is. Rap is music, it's just not my favourite genre of music.

I like how he claims he likes "instrumental and Pat Benetar" over modern music, and then goes on to mention that he feels like listening to C418 who made the classic 1920s pop standard known as... the Minecraft soundtrack?

[Corrian]

No, I'm one of those people who hates rap and all those stupid celebrities. Instead I prefer interesting stuff like an instrumental or Pat Benetar. Not the low-quality music today's popular "musicians" produce.

If you like instrumentals, there are thousands of instrumentals I know that are good in all forms of music. Most in the 2000's.

[Blekksprutia]

not with artists like Ed Sheeran and Passenger in the iTunes top 10 chart it's not.

[The REAL Glasers]

No, I'm one of those people who hates rap and all those stupid celebrities. Instead I prefer interesting stuff like an instrumental or Pat Benetar. Not the low-quality music today's popular "musicians" produce.

If you like instrumentals, there are thousands of instrumentals I know that are good in all forms of music. Most in the 2000's.

Hell, there was an explosion of it in 2001 in particular.

[Preshtopia]

Music is like Tinkerbell, you have to believe.

Hakuna Matata.

Why Tinkerbell?

[Sirovia (Ancient)]

Nope. Music is evolving all the time. It's impossible that "good" music dies, because you'll always have good music, in every style around the world.

[Corrian]

Nope. Music is evolving all the time. It's impossible that "good" music dies, because you'll always have good music, in every style around the world.

And every genre of music has these bands that are ever evolving the style, making them way different than anything we've ever heard in the styles of music before.

I've heard sludge metal that sounds nothing like any other band I've heard in the genre, who all sound more similar to each other when I listen to them compared to the sludge metal band I speak of.

[Calorax]

It's still sad how many people are hating on pop music here
The mainstream hasn't been this good in, like, ages
It's just trendy for tweens on the internet to hate modern music

[Corrian]

It's still sad how many people are hating on pop music here
The mainstream hasn't been this good in, like, ages
It's just trendy for tweens on the internet to hate modern music

I still thought the mainstream was pretty garbage from what I have seen...

But like I have been doing in this thread, I've defended both the mainstream and the music industry as a whole since people are loving to hate all music based off a tiny section of the music industry (Radio play stuff).

[San]

It's still sad how many people are hating on pop music here
The mainstream hasn't been this good in, like, ages
It's just trendy for tweens on the internet to hate modern music

the stuff that's straddles the line between indie and mainstream is better than it's been for years. the actual mainstream stuff? not so much; it's better than it has been recently, but it's still not stellar, really

[Corrian]

It's still sad how many people are hating on pop music here
The mainstream hasn't been this good in, like, ages
It's just trendy for tweens on the internet to hate modern music

the stuff that's straddles the line between indie and mainstream is better than it's been for years. the actual mainstream stuff? not so much; it's better than it has been recently, but it's still not stellar, really

We still have stuff like Gangnam Style making it go backwards. But at least it doesn't take itself seriously.

[Calorax]

It's still sad how many people are hating on pop music here
The mainstream hasn't been this good in, like, ages
It's just trendy for tweens on the internet to hate modern music

I still thought the mainstream was pretty garbage from what I have seen...

But like I have been doing in this thread, I've defended both the mainstream and the music industry as a whole since people are loving to hate all music based off a tiny section of the music industry (Radio play stuff).

The mainstream has mostly always pretty garbage though (depending on your definition of mainstream), that's the thing. But there are a lot more acts willing to experiment in the mainstream now; Kanye, Beyonce, Lorde, Daft Punk, Lady Gaga etc. Regardless of peoples opinion of them, that's deserves some commendation, surely.
Also, acts like Arcade Fire and Bon Iver have come to prominence recently, and they're both pretty awesome.

The recent nomination of John Grant in the Brit awards has confirmed my position that the mainstream can still be a force for good.

Calorax wrote:
It's still sad how many people are hating on pop music here
The mainstream hasn't been this good in, like, ages
It's just trendy for tweens on the internet to hate modern music

the stuff that's straddles the line between indie and mainstream is better than it's been for years. the actual mainstream stuff? not so much; it's better than it has been recently, but it's still not stellar, really

I think mainstream stuff that is intended for consumption has always been pretty poor though, in honesty. It would appear the public have less of a taste for it now though, with exceptions.