(Okay, so that graph is bogus. But if the Climate Change folks can make stuff up, why can’t I?)
Posted on 12/02/2021 7:26:02 AM PST by dmam2011
Because most new music is crap. No hooks, no melodies. Gimme some Allman Bros. or, The Eagles and we can rock.
It’s amazing how the military experience can bond a person to certain music. For my dad it was “Sentimental Journey “ (WWII); for me it was “Leaving on a Jet Plane” (Vietnam).
I have gone that way for years, not just in music, but in movies and literature.
In my early twenties I began listening to more Jazz and Classical, then Big Band and even Country/Western.
LOL, my current favorite album is by a woman named Diane Taraz titled “Songs of the Revolution: A 21 Song Salute to The Music of 1776”
Nah, not buying it.
Last June there were several High School Graduation parties in my immediate neighborhood. They had DJs and I could hear the music from my house or just walking around the neighborhood. (No I am not old and didn’t call the cops)
But I was amazed that the vast majority of songs they played at these parties were contemporary songs from the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s. I didn’t hear too many new songs.
The playlists were not much different from the playlist you would have heard at my High School Graduation party 30+ years ago
So yeah, it’s not us “old people”, even kids today know music today sucks
I frequently see teens and young adults marvel at the Beatles and ask why their generation doesn’t produce music like that.
Having grown up listening to a wide variety of music, I believe one main reason many older people reject so-called "new music" is because it is not really "music." And the lyrics are even worse.
(Okay, so that graph is bogus. But if the Climate Change folks can make stuff up, why can’t I?)
***Why do old people hate new music?***
I am old and I love music.
However, I clearly do not like the “new” music. I don’t believe it is because of my age or of my ingrained musical tastes. My problem with the new music is that it is SO repetitive and SO boring. It is that simple! There is little that is “creative” about any of it, and they have forgotten what it means to write beautiful melodies and compelling lyrics.
Listen to some of it for yourselves and you be the judge. (Flame away!!)
Yep
1960's - Lots of Incredible Stuff
1970's - The Greatest Music Decade in the History of Mankind
1980's - Lots of Incredible Stuff
1990's - Some of Incredible Stuff
2000's - A catchy tune here or there
2010's - Pure suckatude
2020's - It can't get any worse, can it?
I heard Rap for the first time when I was 26 (still young). Didn’t like it then, don’t like it now.
Because the engineers get one measure of music that sounds OK and repeat it for the entire song, over and over again...
On the other hand, there are many interesting studies on how music is steadily devolving.
Music is emotionally branded.
When I was in the USN back in the Seventies, I awoke aboard the USS JFK the morning we were anchored off Rota, Spain to OUTCHOP back to the USA after our deployment to the song: “Baker Street” by Gerry Rafferty, and I cannot hear that song without being transported back in time...:)
I love a lot of music in that way. Funny, my wife doesn’t get that at all, and never listens to music. Totally foreign to her, but...my life can be be measured by hearing music I listened to at the time.
In Japan for “Hey Jude”, the Philippines for In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida and “Cant’ Get Next To You”...that kind of thing!
Loved Elvis and then became a busy wife & mother.
My daughters love Dwight Yoakum - and so do I. He looks great and sounds great. Check out youtube for ‘A thousand miles from nowhere’ and ‘Suspicious Minds’.
(2) Hip Hop is a somewhat musical attempt to improve on Rap, but it is boring due to its repetitiveness.
(3) Contemporary Pop is mostly targeted to pre-teens and young teens, so it doesn't have much to offer adults. Some songs can be very good, but the majority is for kids. Same goes for contemporary Rock.
(4) As an older adult, I appreciate excellent lyrics and melody. Most contemporary popular music lacks both. Even a lot of current Broadway music is disappointing for the same reason...mediocre lyrics and melody.
People try and tell me, “Oh no, they’re still making good music— you just have to know where to look!” But I do look and it all sounds like repetitive noise to me. I ask them, “Well, show me some examples; what do you recommend?” So they give me recommendations on YouTube or whatever and it isn’t my preference or style. Today’s music simply does not strike me as creative, melodic, catchy, fun, or heartfelt as what I would call “good music.” Maybe it’s just me. I’m still looking and open to new artist and music within my own areas of preference and would love to be proved wrong.
Those of us born in the 50s had the good fortune to see the rock’n’roll business from the time before it was a business.
Around the time MTV came in it was well on its way to becoming a fossilized dinosaur.
I heard a group of fifteen-year olds [the little Flash’s peer group]discussing among themselves this past weekend whether they liked “Stairway to Heaven.”
Which came out fifty years ago, 1971, when I was about that age.
Just for fun I googled the No. 1 song from 1921, fifty years before Stairway to Heaven came out. I was not sure if they even kept track back then.
The song was “I Ain’t Got Nobody”, by Marion Harris.
I guarantee you no one was interested in that song, certainly not the Marion Harris version, when I was a kid.
EXCEPT that it was made into the second half of a medley by Louis Prima in the 50s, which was covered by David Lee Roth in the 1980s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lN-4lX0QyZc
But even that was 35 years ago.
And the youngsters are listening to Green Day, which to me is “new”, and in some cases not awful, but even they have been around for 35 years. I can also recognize half a dozen songs they’ve “borrowed” from, to put it nicely.
No one’s going to be listening to the crap that comes out today in five years, never mind 35, or 50.
I am no judge of musical quality, but recognize an old trend.
I think there’s another element that’s not captured here. I think the transition from recording on tape to digital, a.k.a. Pro Tools has altered the sound of music. I can tell the difference in the quality of sound from the 90s to today. The Sound City documentary captures what I mean. The Neve sound board makes a difference.
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