Millenial's Music Taste (vanity). Whats wrong with your generation?

[hecht]

Last night we watched ABC's Dick Clarks New Years Eve Show. When they began to show music performers, the first I saw was Billy Joel. You could tell that it was one of his bona fide live performance as he sounded different from the studio versions, some minor errors etc. In my genervation ( I'm in my 50s) the best albums were often live , where the performers would jam, experiment and ad lib. The Allmans Live at Fillmore East is an example , or the Live version of Led Zepellin's "Dazed and Confused" -filmed in San Francisco - where Robert Plant ad libbed" going to San Francisco" in the middle of the song. After Joel the show went to a series of Millenial performers who all had auto-tuned lip synched performances, where they basically just aerobic danced to songs written by someone else, don't play instruments and have a few clones dancing in synch behind them. I joked to my guests" imagine if the Beatles were part of the Millenial generation. John Lennon would be lip synching an aerobic dance with George , Ringo and Paul would dance in unison behind him. What gives Millenials? have you no sense ? don't you realize that these "performers" are manufactured pretty boys/girls ? they are live action "Archies" If your taste in music is so vacuous , is there any hope for them? Is there any hope to wan them from Obama?

Even the non song writing performers of our generation i.e..e Elvis could at least perform.

[hecht]

they were good.

now imagine Jerry G
aerobic dancing to a lip synched recorded Ripple with Phil Lesh et al dancing in unison behind him

[hecht]

they performed live

[qam1]

Last summer some high school kids behind my home threw a party just like American high schoolers have been doing for decades.

The Funny thing was, they were blaring Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath all night. If you didn’t know, you would have thought it was the 70’s or 80’s

Somehow 20 years from now, I highly doubt anybody is going to be blaring Beyonce, Lady Ga-Ga, Kayne, etc

Music today IS crap.

The 1970s - An incredible amount of Great & Memorable stuff, the 1980’s a lot Great & Memorable stuff, the 1990’s some great & Memorable stuff (Mostly early in the decade), the 00’s - very little Great & Memorable stuff, 10’s - Nothing.

[hecht]

maybe, but prior generations sang and performed their music not lip synched and worked their way up- not manufactured stars

[minnesota_bound]

Music started dying in the 80’s then rap came along and buried it.

[hecht]

agree

[Revolting cat!]

Old people kvetching about tastes of today's yoots PING! PING to the fans of Fabian Forte & Joanie Sommers. Those were the days!

[ifinnegan]

I agree with that fully ( or, well, Led Zep ripped off Robert Johnson, Richie Valens, but I agree on the point being made).

I actually had this same conversation last night about the song Paper Planes by MIA. I was talking about how the Clash actually wrote the song, played the instruments and recorded the music as compared to today how these no talent model/dancers with producers who just take a bit of an actual song, Like Straight to Hell, and read their chanty rhymes over it.

[Norm Lenhart]

Wanna bet Us 80s metalheads would turn up their noses at 40/50 tunes? you’d lose that bet. If it sounds good, it is good. Current crap is just that. No talent studio/corporate assembly line crap.

[Revolting cat!]

Little Peggy March: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8-6o_ultLg

[minnesota_bound]

Homer: I was in a record store, and they were playing all these bands I’d never heard of. It was like the store had gone crazy.

Marge: Record stores have always seemed crazy to me. Music is none of my business.

Homer: That’s all well and good for you, but I used to rock and roll all night and party every day. Then it was every other day... now I’m lucky to find half an hour a week in which to get funky. I’ve got to get out of this rut and back into the groove.

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[the teenagers Homer and Barney are doing an acapella version of “You Make Me Feel Like Dancing” in front of a mirror]

Middle-aged Grampa: What the Hell are you two doin’?

Young Barney: It’s called rockin’ out!

Young Homer: You wouldn’t understan’, dad. You’re not *with it*.

Middle-aged Grampa: I used to be with it, but then they changed what *it* was. Now what I’m with isn’t *it*, and what’s *it* seems weird and scary to me. It’ll happen to you...

[logitech]

Talkin’ ‘bout my gggggggeneration.

[ToastedHead]

I want to know if Old Miley can twerk her way from one song into another.

[dfwgator]

Generational tastes and snobbery. It’s always been better “before”.

But this time, we're right.....Even my kids admit it.

[RegulatorCountry]

I'm of the earliest Gen-Xers or the very last of the Boomers depending upon who's doing the categorizing, and I can say that folks older than me don't seem to realize music exists outside mainstream radio and television, they're still stuck in the major record label and Top 40 mentality. That music today generally does suck, but it's lowest common denominator background noise/entertainment. There is excellent music being created, recorded and distributed, however you've got to understand your own tastes and go find it, we're in a golden age of music, every kind. You just won't hear it at the same old same old that you've been listening to since the fifties or sixties, that's dying. It's like limiting yourself to CNN for news and believing that's how the world really is.

[Fiji Hill]

Today? There is no musicianship. No point in really listening. They autotune everything. It's all over-produced. A big voice and a mindless beat (Adele, Katy Perry, Rihanna, Pink, Beyonce -- I can barely tell the difference).

I don't listen to a lot of ontemporary popular tunes, but when I do, they always seems to be written in a major key and are lacking in the use of dynamics, key changes, changes in tempo such as rallantandos, fermatas cesuras ("railroad tracks"), etc.

It seems the best music being produced today is movie music.

[Norm Lenhart]

Same here.

[hecht]

doubtful

[hecht]

mine also

[Revolting cat!]

Know where to look. Looking at the mainstream radio and TV, you get the same crap qualitywise as when you look at MSM for news and commentary. It’s always been this way. What was the Sturgeon’s Law again? Metalheads digging Perry Como? Don’t make me laugh!