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There's a large survival bias at play here - only the "good" music from the past decades is going to be relatively available for you to find in the present day.
by lawlorino 7y ago
There's a large survival bias at play here - only the "good" music from the past decades is going to be relatively available for you to find in the present day.
> Western culture has gone backwards.
Oh come on...
- WarOnPrivacy 7y agoAssuming you're not being sarcastic, this is easily disproved thru listening to skilled, non-hit musicians. Popularity isn't tied to "good" so much as it is "catchy". Hooks are easy to package and sell, skill - not so much.
- gamblor956 7y agoAssuming you're not being sarcastic, there has always been a deep catalog of unpopular musicians with catchy hooks. The reason they never became popular is because they weren't that good compared to their more popular compatriots. You and the OP are conflating marketing driven Top 100 pop songs that no one will remember next year with the good pop songs that will stay catchy for decades.
- growlist 7y agoI mentioned TOTP2, which is a showcase of everything, not only the good. And you haven't refuted my claim that pop used to be more diverse. > Oh come on... So take Hollywood then: hardly thriving with originality these days, is it? All we seem to get is more and more of the same boring overly scripted kung fu style fight scenes, amongst other tired clichés. I am so utterly bored of violence but American film making seems to be addicted to it. The cupboard of (permitted) ideas is bare.