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Tbh I think we look at older music with rose colored cglasses cause only the best of the best pop music survives. Pop music has always and will always be simple

Tbh I think we look at older music with rose colored cglasses cause only the best of the best pop music survives. Pop music has always and will always be simple and shitty by and large. However, in modern times, the barrier to entry of record an album is virtually 0. You can make a masterpiece in your bedroom if you want to. There is SO much interesting music happening right now I really resent this idea that music has somehow lost its way. Examples : king gizzard and the lizard wizard, the dillinger escape plan, bjork, death grips, tim hecker, danny brown, etc etc the list is damn near infinite. Lots of incredible, boundary pushing music has happened in the last 15 or so years, and continues on a daily basis

ilyt 4y ago
Pretty much. Ask anyone to name top pop artist from top off their heads from 5, 10, 20 years ago and the list of those names will be very, very short.
blue039 4y ago
Just from your list I only am aware of Bjork and Death Grips. Bjork is interesting but I would consider death grips the greatest troll on the planet. You could make an album of a man screaming over banging pots and pans and achieve the same level of avant garde notoriety he has. It's not good in the same sense post-modernist art is not good. It's meaningless noise searching for meaning. Anyway I keep getting downvoted for this which is hilarious. It's obvious people have virtually no idea what musical talent sounds like. Talent is not what you like, it's legitimate hard earned skill. Sampled trash and top 40s 4x4 beats augmented by auto-tune and filters is not skill no matter how much lipstick you put on the pig. Neither is shouting into a microphone behind overdriven noise-music. Being avant garde also doesn't imply skill, the relationship is not a bijection.
- DontchaKnowit 4y ago
  ^ and you think death grips is pretentious? lmao Death Grips is legitimately good, as in, I bob my head and sing along to it, and it gives me goosebumps because its awesome. Also, there is absolutely 0% chance you could create something that comes close to their music. Their keyboard player is an insanely talented producer and their samples are masterfully collected and utilized. So honestly sounds to me like you are just closed minded and pretentious.

ilyt 4y ago

Pretty much. Ask anyone to name top pop artist from top off their heads from 5, 10, 20 years ago and the list of those names will be very, very short.

blue039 4y ago

Just from your list I only am aware of Bjork and Death Grips. Bjork is interesting but I would consider death grips the greatest troll on the planet. You could make an album of a man screaming over banging pots and pans and achieve the same level of avant garde notoriety he has. It's not good in the same sense post-modernist art is not good. It's meaningless noise searching for meaning. Anyway I keep getting downvoted for this which is hilarious. It's obvious people have virtually no idea what musical talent sounds like. Talent is not what you like, it's legitimate hard earned skill. Sampled trash and top 40s 4x4 beats augmented by auto-tune and filters is not skill no matter how much lipstick you put on the pig. Neither is shouting into a microphone behind overdriven noise-music. Being avant garde also doesn't imply skill, the relationship is not a bijection.

DontchaKnowit 4y ago
^ and you think death grips is pretentious? lmao Death Grips is legitimately good, as in, I bob my head and sing along to it, and it gives me goosebumps because its awesome. Also, there is absolutely 0% chance you could create something that comes close to their music. Their keyboard player is an insanely talented producer and their samples are masterfully collected and utilized. So honestly sounds to me like you are just closed minded and pretentious.