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I guarantee 20 years from now most of the popular music we'll hear in franchise movies will still be from the late '50s to the early '2000s. We'll still be put

I guarantee 20 years from now most of the popular music we'll hear in franchise movies will still be from the late '50s to the early '2000s. We'll still be putting The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Zeppelin etc. as the soundtrack to these movies. I think they are worth the money.

WalterBright 5y ago
Music from 1965 to 1975 has simply never gone out of style. In the 1970s you never heard any music 50 years old. I was listening to the radio today, and the current hit has the legendary lyrics "A B C D E" (yes, saying the alphabet) and the singer had to have the autotune turned up to 11 to apparently get on key. Though I do have to admit Gloria Estefan had a "hit" where the words were "1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 I'm gonna keep on counting" (please stop!).
- tiahura 5y ago
  I’m a music snob and I like that song. It’s got a catchy hook, and the pre chorus contrasts nicely with the chorus and verses. For a 17 year old girl, it’s damn impressive. As Rick Beato reminds, it’s easy to dump on modern music. True music lovers should be able to find something clever about every popular song.
  - mhh__ 5y ago
    Which is ironic coming from Rick Beato sometimes at least (he's talented but somewhat famous in jazz meme groups for being a grumpy old man)
  - earthboundkid 5y ago
    The issue for contemporary music is not that it's bad. Pop music has always been 99% bad. The issue is that it's not possible to create successful new IP anymore. We see this across entertainment. It used to be that a disc jockey in a mid-sized market could find a record, spin it a bunch, create a regional sensation that would eventually break through nationally. That just cannot happen anymore. Instead, there are YouTube and Spotify niches that go deep like Lofi Chill Beats to Study To or whatever, but they can't break out and grow. They just keep getting the same audience but deeper instead of broader.
    - netr0ute 5y ago
      How do you this isn't a "kids these days" situation?
      - Retric 5y ago
        Among other trends radio stations stopped giving large numbers of DJ’s freedom to select individual songs and thus allow for organic growth in song popularity across regions. While susceptible to a payola it did introduce people to a lot of new music from relative unknowns.
        ipaddr 5y ago
        That happened late 70s and early 80s.
        msrenee 5y ago
        Most radio has been pretty much the top 40 to my memory of the last couple decades. However, there used to be more independent radio stations which at least played the top 40 of a different style. And there were more shows even on those stations that broke out of the box. Now I swear the company that bought the companies that bought up all the stations has decided that that was way too much variation and put an end to it. I've got at least 4 country stations I can get on my radio that play the exact same songs as each other until whoever is in charge releases another set. I don't know if it's gotten worse in the last 5 years because I gave up listening to the radio. Now I've got a music app that mixes up the smaller, more specific genres I prefer. Basically the drop in the quality of radio caused me to go to streaming which has caused me to develop a taste for less common subtypes of music. If country radio had continued to play anything besides guys with fake southern accents singing about girls in cut-offs and trucks, I'd probably still be listening.
        Forgeties79 5y ago
        Honestly the reality is there are few to no DJ’s at radio stations anymore unless you’re listening to college-run stations. But outside of colleges? Hell half those stations are running pre-recorded “DJ’s,” ads, and playlists built from the billboard 100.
- IAmPym 5y ago
  Pop music isn't meant to withstand the test of time. Stop treating it as such. Enjoy what does. Lots of stuff from this decade will. If you can't find the stuff you enjoy why bother with modern pop at all?
- oneoff786 5y ago
  Almost all music from 1965 to 1975 has gone out of style. That some hits have endured isn’t evidence otherwise. Plenty of good music, even pop out there. But much of it has gone to niche tastes.
  - bobthepanda 5y ago
    Perhaps the original recording will go out of style, but particularly in pop, R&B and hip hop sampling is extremely common. TikTok has more or less put this in overdrive. A recent meme uses a sample from a 1964 song, Remember by the Shangri-Las. https://youtu.be/wfxw1uALKgk https://youtu.be/wfxw1uALKgk
    - oneoff786 5y ago
      Sampling is extremely common. A minuscule proportion of 60s songs will be sampled in a meaningful way.
    - kingcharles 5y ago
      Heard the Kreepa track 1000 times and didn't realize it was sampled. Amazingly one of the Shangri-Las is still recording recently. I wonder what they make of what's happened to their song? Unbelievable. No possible way to predict that over 50 years after they recorded that track it would be cut and remixed into a catchy 30 second chunk of rap and played billions of times to weird videos that people spend a dozen hours a day watching on their handheld gawk machines. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Weiss https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Weiss
  - ipaddr 5y ago
    Music from 2010 has gone out of style but all of the tv ads still use 1965-1975 music.
    - oneoff786 5y ago
      TV ads are for boomers. Incredibly outdated model of pop culture.
- mbg721 5y ago
  There were a ton of technological changes to electric instruments that only became possible in the last half of the 20th century. People aren't making music on wonky synthesizers anymore because they don't have to, and the style of pop music doesn't need to reflect those tech limitations.
- syntheweave 5y ago
  We shouldn't forget the Jackson Five hit where they say "A B C, 1 2 3". When it's pop, especially bubblegum, the lyrics tend towards being a bit dumb and repetitive.
  - WalterBright 5y ago
    At least it was about first grade school :-)
  - bobthepanda 5y ago
    you can be really reductive about most genres of music if you try hard enough. most western choral music is pretty repetitive lyrically, because there are only so many ways to sing about how much you love God that people appreciate. and I say this as someone who did that kind of music for years.
- WalterBright 5y ago
  My dad (WW2 generation) had execrable taste in music, but in going through his records after he passed I ran across this gem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6HoFaYPYs4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6HoFaYPYs4 I'm sure he picked this up while in Japan during the Korean War. It's nice to see this hasn't been forgotten.
  - kingcharles 5y ago
    This was great :)
    - qohen 5y ago
      Some interesting tidbits about this song, if you're interested, from its Wikipedia page [0]: - The song was written by 2 people of Armenian heritage. One was the Pulitzer-winning author William Saroyan; the other, Ross Bagdasarian, is better known for his creation, Alvin and the Chipmunks. The melody is based on an Armenian folk song and the song is based on the Armenian custom of generously plying guests with fruits, sweets, etc. - The song became a hit when it was recorded by Rosemary Clooney (George Clooney's aunt). When the song was presented to her, she hated it and only sang it because band-leader Mitch Miller threatened to fire her if she didn't record it (this [1] was the result and, yes, that rollicking keyboard is, in fact, a harpsichord). [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Come_On-a_My_House https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Come_On-a_My_House [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mriXncI96lw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mriXncI96lw
      - WalterBright 5y ago
        Haha, I had no idea! But I like the Japanese cover best!
- ryanmcbride 5y ago
  It's easy to point at bad (subjective) songs today and compare them to good (subjective) songs in the past, but remember there was still a ton of garbage music back then, it just got lost to time. There will be hits from every decade that will continue on into the future, but most will be largely forgotten.
- bigger_cheese 5y ago
  It's pretty interesting if you go back 50 years from the 1960's and 70's you wind up in the middle of World War I, just before that you have things like Igor Stravinsky causing riots in 1913 Paris because of how extreme his music was. I think major reason earlier music was not as popular was due to how people consumed music. For a long time the only way a lot of people would get to experience music would be to attend concerts, which was a relatively privileged thing to be able to do. Records were one of those things that didn't really take off until post world war I.
  - WalterBright 5y ago
    I have a handful of 78s from the 1920s, and the music on them is, well, let's just say I just don't like it.
- vintermann 5y ago
  This is wrong. In the 1970s there was for instance a big revival of ragtime, popular music from 50-60 years ago (then). Then there was of course the blues and various other folk revivals, which had a tremendous influence on all that 1965-75 music which is still popular. But of course there were both technical and copyright reasons they didn't just re-release recordings from the 20s!
bsder 5y ago
When was the last time you heard Elvis? Or the Beach Boys? Or any male singer from the 40s and early 50s other than Sinatra? Sirius XM just bumped their 60s channel up out of the bottom of the dial in preference to pop. The 70s and 80s channels are still down at the bottom. That speaks to the audience. Time ages things out.
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- ipaddr 5y ago
  It speaks to who is still driving into work and would find value in Sirius XM these days. That group is probably changing and getting younger.
- S_A_P 5y ago
  I remember xm used to have a 40s and 50s channel. Of course that was 20 years ago in its infancy. IANAL, but an interesting case could be made that by the ‘public’ (radio) no longer broadcasting music that they are no longer asserting their copyright. Similar to trademarks that are no longer defended. If there are satellite and or terrestrial radio stations playing something the copyright expires.
oneoff786 5y ago
Aside from movies that are set in those time periods I doubt it. I don’t think the Beatles or the stones resonate with millenials and younger much. I’m in my late 20s, grew up on classic rock and still fairly fond of Pink Floyd and Rush. I’ve seen Keith Richards perform live. By all means the songs are good but they mean very little to me. I’m probably top 1% in terms of classical rock knowledge within my age peer group. Franchise movies made by or targeted to boomers, sure, but I think it’ll slow down quite a bit over the next couple decades. When I was a kid, I learned about classic rock through the radio because that’s all my dad played on the radio. This isn’t the case anymore. Now you aren’t limited to a few stations all favoring the most mainstream subsets of music. And that’s cool. Music has never been so diverse. The accessibility of artists is so strong and there’s lots of great talent

WalterBright 5y ago

Music from 1965 to 1975 has simply never gone out of style. In the 1970s you never heard any music 50 years old. I was listening to the radio today, and the current hit has the legendary lyrics "A B C D E" (yes, saying the alphabet) and the singer had to have the autotune turned up to 11 to apparently get on key. Though I do have to admit Gloria Estefan had a "hit" where the words were "1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 I'm gonna keep on counting" (please stop!).

tiahura 5y ago
I’m a music snob and I like that song. It’s got a catchy hook, and the pre chorus contrasts nicely with the chorus and verses. For a 17 year old girl, it’s damn impressive. As Rick Beato reminds, it’s easy to dump on modern music. True music lovers should be able to find something clever about every popular song.
- mhh__ 5y ago
  Which is ironic coming from Rick Beato sometimes at least (he's talented but somewhat famous in jazz meme groups for being a grumpy old man)
- earthboundkid 5y ago
  The issue for contemporary music is not that it's bad. Pop music has always been 99% bad. The issue is that it's not possible to create successful new IP anymore. We see this across entertainment. It used to be that a disc jockey in a mid-sized market could find a record, spin it a bunch, create a regional sensation that would eventually break through nationally. That just cannot happen anymore. Instead, there are YouTube and Spotify niches that go deep like Lofi Chill Beats to Study To or whatever, but they can't break out and grow. They just keep getting the same audience but deeper instead of broader.
  - netr0ute 5y ago
    How do you this isn't a "kids these days" situation?
    - Retric 5y ago
      Among other trends radio stations stopped giving large numbers of DJ’s freedom to select individual songs and thus allow for organic growth in song popularity across regions. While susceptible to a payola it did introduce people to a lot of new music from relative unknowns.
      - ipaddr 5y ago
        That happened late 70s and early 80s.
        msrenee 5y ago
        Most radio has been pretty much the top 40 to my memory of the last couple decades. However, there used to be more independent radio stations which at least played the top 40 of a different style. And there were more shows even on those stations that broke out of the box. Now I swear the company that bought the companies that bought up all the stations has decided that that was way too much variation and put an end to it. I've got at least 4 country stations I can get on my radio that play the exact same songs as each other until whoever is in charge releases another set. I don't know if it's gotten worse in the last 5 years because I gave up listening to the radio. Now I've got a music app that mixes up the smaller, more specific genres I prefer. Basically the drop in the quality of radio caused me to go to streaming which has caused me to develop a taste for less common subtypes of music. If country radio had continued to play anything besides guys with fake southern accents singing about girls in cut-offs and trucks, I'd probably still be listening.
      - Forgeties79 5y ago
        Honestly the reality is there are few to no DJ’s at radio stations anymore unless you’re listening to college-run stations. But outside of colleges? Hell half those stations are running pre-recorded “DJ’s,” ads, and playlists built from the billboard 100.
IAmPym 5y ago
Pop music isn't meant to withstand the test of time. Stop treating it as such. Enjoy what does. Lots of stuff from this decade will. If you can't find the stuff you enjoy why bother with modern pop at all?
oneoff786 5y ago
Almost all music from 1965 to 1975 has gone out of style. That some hits have endured isn’t evidence otherwise. Plenty of good music, even pop out there. But much of it has gone to niche tastes.
- bobthepanda 5y ago
  Perhaps the original recording will go out of style, but particularly in pop, R&B and hip hop sampling is extremely common. TikTok has more or less put this in overdrive. A recent meme uses a sample from a 1964 song, Remember by the Shangri-Las. https://youtu.be/wfxw1uALKgk https://youtu.be/wfxw1uALKgk
  - oneoff786 5y ago
    Sampling is extremely common. A minuscule proportion of 60s songs will be sampled in a meaningful way.
  - kingcharles 5y ago
    Heard the Kreepa track 1000 times and didn't realize it was sampled. Amazingly one of the Shangri-Las is still recording recently. I wonder what they make of what's happened to their song? Unbelievable. No possible way to predict that over 50 years after they recorded that track it would be cut and remixed into a catchy 30 second chunk of rap and played billions of times to weird videos that people spend a dozen hours a day watching on their handheld gawk machines. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Weiss https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Weiss
- ipaddr 5y ago
  Music from 2010 has gone out of style but all of the tv ads still use 1965-1975 music.
  - oneoff786 5y ago
    TV ads are for boomers. Incredibly outdated model of pop culture.
mbg721 5y ago
There were a ton of technological changes to electric instruments that only became possible in the last half of the 20th century. People aren't making music on wonky synthesizers anymore because they don't have to, and the style of pop music doesn't need to reflect those tech limitations.
syntheweave 5y ago
We shouldn't forget the Jackson Five hit where they say "A B C, 1 2 3". When it's pop, especially bubblegum, the lyrics tend towards being a bit dumb and repetitive.
- WalterBright 5y ago
  At least it was about first grade school :-)
- bobthepanda 5y ago
  you can be really reductive about most genres of music if you try hard enough. most western choral music is pretty repetitive lyrically, because there are only so many ways to sing about how much you love God that people appreciate. and I say this as someone who did that kind of music for years.
WalterBright 5y ago
My dad (WW2 generation) had execrable taste in music, but in going through his records after he passed I ran across this gem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6HoFaYPYs4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6HoFaYPYs4 I'm sure he picked this up while in Japan during the Korean War. It's nice to see this hasn't been forgotten.
- kingcharles 5y ago
  This was great :)
  - qohen 5y ago
    Some interesting tidbits about this song, if you're interested, from its Wikipedia page [0]: - The song was written by 2 people of Armenian heritage. One was the Pulitzer-winning author William Saroyan; the other, Ross Bagdasarian, is better known for his creation, Alvin and the Chipmunks. The melody is based on an Armenian folk song and the song is based on the Armenian custom of generously plying guests with fruits, sweets, etc. - The song became a hit when it was recorded by Rosemary Clooney (George Clooney's aunt). When the song was presented to her, she hated it and only sang it because band-leader Mitch Miller threatened to fire her if she didn't record it (this [1] was the result and, yes, that rollicking keyboard is, in fact, a harpsichord). [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Come_On-a_My_House https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Come_On-a_My_House [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mriXncI96lw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mriXncI96lw
    - WalterBright 5y ago
      Haha, I had no idea! But I like the Japanese cover best!
ryanmcbride 5y ago
It's easy to point at bad (subjective) songs today and compare them to good (subjective) songs in the past, but remember there was still a ton of garbage music back then, it just got lost to time. There will be hits from every decade that will continue on into the future, but most will be largely forgotten.
bigger_cheese 5y ago
It's pretty interesting if you go back 50 years from the 1960's and 70's you wind up in the middle of World War I, just before that you have things like Igor Stravinsky causing riots in 1913 Paris because of how extreme his music was. I think major reason earlier music was not as popular was due to how people consumed music. For a long time the only way a lot of people would get to experience music would be to attend concerts, which was a relatively privileged thing to be able to do. Records were one of those things that didn't really take off until post world war I.
- WalterBright 5y ago
  I have a handful of 78s from the 1920s, and the music on them is, well, let's just say I just don't like it.
vintermann 5y ago
This is wrong. In the 1970s there was for instance a big revival of ragtime, popular music from 50-60 years ago (then). Then there was of course the blues and various other folk revivals, which had a tremendous influence on all that 1965-75 music which is still popular. But of course there were both technical and copyright reasons they didn't just re-release recordings from the 20s!

bsder 5y ago

When was the last time you heard Elvis? Or the Beach Boys? Or any male singer from the 40s and early 50s other than Sinatra? Sirius XM just bumped their 60s channel up out of the bottom of the dial in preference to pop. The 70s and 80s channels are still down at the bottom. That speaks to the audience. Time ages things out.

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ipaddr 5y ago
It speaks to who is still driving into work and would find value in Sirius XM these days. That group is probably changing and getting younger.
S_A_P 5y ago
I remember xm used to have a 40s and 50s channel. Of course that was 20 years ago in its infancy. IANAL, but an interesting case could be made that by the ‘public’ (radio) no longer broadcasting music that they are no longer asserting their copyright. Similar to trademarks that are no longer defended. If there are satellite and or terrestrial radio stations playing something the copyright expires.

oneoff786 5y ago

Aside from movies that are set in those time periods I doubt it. I don’t think the Beatles or the stones resonate with millenials and younger much. I’m in my late 20s, grew up on classic rock and still fairly fond of Pink Floyd and Rush. I’ve seen Keith Richards perform live. By all means the songs are good but they mean very little to me. I’m probably top 1% in terms of classical rock knowledge within my age peer group. Franchise movies made by or targeted to boomers, sure, but I think it’ll slow down quite a bit over the next couple decades. When I was a kid, I learned about classic rock through the radio because that’s all my dad played on the radio. This isn’t the case anymore. Now you aren’t limited to a few stations all favoring the most mainstream subsets of music. And that’s cool. Music has never been so diverse. The accessibility of artists is so strong and there’s lots of great talent