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Am I simply getting older or does a lot of new pop music suck?
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2013 Jun 14, 1:46am 21,407 views 51 comments
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HydroCabron
2013 Jun 16, 5:46am
Young people today listen to very whiny music today. I don't understand how any self respecting man can drive around blasting "Same Love".
Generation of whiners.
I refer you to two early 80s hits: "Tainted Love" & "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?". These heights of whiny self-pity were equalled only in the "Complaint Rock" wave of the early 1990s.
Shaman
2013 Jun 16, 8:27am
If guess about 98-99% of all new music is poorly crafted or has stupid lyrics. This makes casual listening difficult for people who pay attention to both aspects of a piece. Honestly, I think we'd have better music out there if you divided music comp from lyric writing, putting talent with education in music theory for the first, and good poets for the second.
Relying on some fast-food-employed, dope smoker, garage band rejects to write the music of the age is so fucking 1980s.
PeopleUnited
2013 Jun 16, 9:20am
No offense to original poster, the answer to both queries is probably yes.
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I work out in the gym every morning. As such with many gyms they play "pick me up" techno-dance-pop music over the PA system. Usually I don't hear it over the machines. But when I'm in the changing room I can. I find myself thinking as I hear most of it:
" God this is stupid!"
It seems that every other song is a carbon copy of the other. The exact same sound effects, style of singing, and of course with most of the techno music, that sort of wind-up sound used so often with a brief pause before the music goes into a sort of trance pattern.
When I was a kid I promised myself to always listen to new music and never turn into some crabby old person who hates the stuff. Now- granted I still listen to a lot of new music. I like music of all kinds: Country, Americana, Techno, Pop, Symphony, and so on. But a lot of the top-40 pop music pieces I find hardly bearable.