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that's probably what your parents were saying about the music you listened to when you were young, too.
by apengwin 6y ago
that's probably what your parents were saying about the music you listened to when you were young, too.
- agumonkey 6y agoThere's part old subjective rant part truth in this; I've listened to countless hours of any genre of music [0] and this generation fails to appeal to any part of my brain most of the time it's flabbergasting. Every time I hear something that makes me feel 'yeah.. finally' turns out it was some old tune I just didn't know about. There's no feel, no harmonic subtlety, no grit .. I think the pop ethos of music died a few years ago, it doesn't represent something sacred for society, it feels like a commodity.
- TulliusCicero 6y agoThis happens to most: "I'm not getting old, the music is getting worse! Really!!" Nope, you're just getting older and more out of touch, and your own out of touched-ness stops you from recognizing it as such. It's kind of like the Dunning-Kruger effect that way. There's a ton of variety and good music out there if you bother to look. If you can't find any, that says something. I think part of it is that people become more calcified in interests and habits as they get older. For example, when I worked at Costco I noticed how much more stubborn older customers were -- contrary to stereotype, younger customers were generally far nicer and more flexible. In high school, people my age were open to all sorts of things; now that I'm in my 30's, people have more established interests. My own wife has pointed out that I'm fairly particular about friends now sharing similar interests.
- agumonkey 6y agoMeh, I didn't have to look before to get interesting music. And my interests are more diverse than when I was young. I span the whole music spectrum. From old to new, pop, kitch, complex, simple, classical, thrash, whatever. Today's mainstream is really poor. to give you a weird example, some girl on youtube decided to cover knight rider's theme with violin's only, you can see how this simple tv show got very interesting harmonics and melodic emotional structure.
- fein 6y agoAnd they were for the most part correct. The 90's and early 2ks were filled with trash music. The only nice thing compared to the pop lists today is that those bands still actually played instruments. I look back at what I listened to then and maybe a handful of those groups were actually anything good. The rest was appealing to an unrefined 13 year old, which really says a lot about how shitty that music is. I listen to a lot of stuff from the late 60's and early 70's now, as well as newer stuff full of band names that would never end up in the top 500 lists. My parents generation of music was undoubtedly more wholesome and serious than my own, and its not even a comparison to now. If music is supposed to be a reflection of society, it's no wonder as society is such trash now.
- rsynnott 6y agoExtremely serious and wholesome hit from 1960: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yw0bLHTOb0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yw0bLHTOb0 Edit: by the way, you realise that your grandparents were probably moaning about the music your parents listened to? And their parents ditto, and so on. Nothing new about it.
- Exmoor 6y ago
- loco5niner 6y agoI hated the popular music when I was young too.