modern music

dk1345

hi dunno if this is the right place but here goes
been watching Brittan's got talent and will.i,am{or william as i like to call him} was on with his new single and i said to myself what sort of sh1t is this for music im only 34 but seriously what he is releasing these days is unreal crap am i getting too old for modern day music

El Weirdo

Twas ever thus.

caustic 1

Yup just the ageing process. Do you find yourself making grunting noises when you rise from the armchair. All perfectly normal for 34yr old. Now next year your doomed.

dk1345

caustic 1 wrote: »

Yup just the ageing process. Do you find yourself making grunting noises when you rise from the armchair. All perfectly normal for 34yr old. Now next year your doomed.

no the missus does that

Hotale.com

Does anyone like Will.I.Am?

Alf. A. Male

Hotale.com wrote: »

Does anyone like Will.I.Am?

Mammy. I. Am. and Daddy. I. Am.

Nodin

Hotale.com wrote: »

Does anyone like Will.I.Am?

His music would not be my cupan tae.

However having had the misfortune to see him interviewed, he comes across as a pompous humourless arrogant prick and thus I am filled with the need to slap the head offof him.

sadie06

dk1345 wrote: »

hi dunno if this is the right place but here goes
been watching Brittan's got talent and will.i,am{or william as i like to call him} was on with his new single and i said to myself what sort of sh1t is this for music im only 34 but seriously what he is releasing these days is unreal crap am i getting too old for modern day music

Welcome to middle age. You will find your first grey hair in the morning.

FearDark

This thread again?

dk1345

sadie06 wrote: »

Welcome to middle age. You will find your first grey hair in the morning.

i feckin wish im gone bald:(

kneemos

Singers aren't cool anymore the way they used to be.

dk1345

FearDark wrote: »

This thread again?

you mut be a fan so;)

cml387

I'll just leave this here...

e_e

Judging all modern music off Brtain's Got Talent is a bit like judging the standard of cooking today off of a trip to Supermacs.

Daveysil15

His email address must be a nightmare; will.I.am.@yahoo.co.uk

dk1345

dk1345 wrote: »

am i getting too old for modern day music

No, you're just listening to the wrong modern day music. Plenty of great music still being made these days, just as there was plenty of shíte being made back in the 60's/70's/80's.

Right Turn Clyde

I simply cannot keep up with the amount of outstanding music being released each week. The electronic scene is particularly strong at the moment. There's just no end to the quality. My advice: turn off the TV and challenge yourself. Don't rely on the mainstream media to supply you with good music.

fleet_admiral

everything has been shite since Joe Dolan died

Rothko

Please don't judge all modern music by the stuff that he's releasing.

Daveysil15

I think the 10's have been far better that the 00's. There was an awful lot of shyte in the 00's. Dance and pop music is a lot better now.

Rothko

Daveysil15 wrote: »

I think the 10's have been far better that the 00's. There was an awful lot of shyte in the 00's. Dance and pop music is a lot better now.

Overall, I think music is as good as it's ever been but that the charts are getting worse.

Shakespeare's Sister

An element of just getting older being part of it all right, but nobody can say with a straight face that chart music was just as sh1t before the X Factor and all that kinda stuff, if not earlier.
Obviously there was sh-t in the charts in the 70s and 80s but there was also brilliance in the charts (as if someone of the ilk of e.g. David Bowie, Roxy Music, Blondie, Elvis Costello would reach the top 10 or even top 5 now). It's mostly one blob of bland muck now.
Obviously though, there is plenty of fantastic music outside of the charts/radio, and it's great how easy it is to find.

Da Shins Kelly

Right Turn Clyde wrote: »

I simply cannot keep up with the amount of outstanding music being released each week. The electronic scene is particularly strong at the moment. There's just no end to the quality. My advice: turn off the TV and challenge yourself. Don't rely on the mainstream media to supply you with good music.

+1.

The radio and television is absolutely just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to modern music. The internet has made it so much easier for artists to share their music and for listeners to find it. You could find literally anything you could possibly want to listen to in a matter of seconds by simply typing it into an internet search engine. People have no business complaining about the quality of music being released today when everything is there at your fingertips if you take the time to scratch beneath the surface even a tiny bit.

Modern pop music (i.e. the last 3-5 years), for the most part, is the worst pop so far in the history of music IMO. There are a lot of talented people working behind the scenes, but the final product just seems to be getting dumber and dumber. I heard Katy Perry's new song on the radio earlier, the main lyrical hook of the song goes "So let me get you in your birthday suit, it's time to bring out the big balloons"...ah FFS!!

At this rate of going, in about 10 years the lyrics of pop songs will be "Sex, sex sex, oh sexy sexy sex."

Still though, it will probably make her at least another million.

For those interested in how the modern pop song is conceived and executed, here is a fascinating, long article from the New Yorker on the methods Rihanna and others employ to create a hit (if you're into that kinda thing)...

The Song Machine...

Modern music though, IMO, is as strong as ever. Unfortunately though you will hear none of this (or very little of it) on the radio. The internet is your friend in the search for quality modern music.

Da Shins Kelly

stankratz wrote: »

For those interested in how the modern pop song is conceived and executed, here is a fascinating, long article from the New Yorker on the methods Rihanna and others employ to create a hit (if you're into that kinda thing)...

The Song Machine...

Esther Dean is the real talent behind Rihanna and the likes. There are a few of the demos of Rihanna's biggest hits online where you can see how much of the work Esther Dean actually does - she writes the song, records the demo and then sends it to Rihanna who just records it pretty much note for note exactly how Dean sings it on the demo.

The girl knows how to write a catchy hook. I'm sure she makes a ball of money doing it too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIdqeuXNuwU

Da Shins Kelly

Da Shins Kelly wrote: »

Esther Dean is the real talent behind Rihanna and the likes. There are a few of the demos of Rihanna's biggest hits online where you can see how much of the work Esther Dean actually does - she writes the song, records the demo and then sends it to Rihanna who just records it pretty much note for note exactly how Dean sings it on the demo.

The girl knows how to write a catchy hook. I'm sure she makes a ball of money doing it too.

She certainly is at the top her game, I was fairly wide-eyed reading about her process. Apparently she wants to be the main woman herself, wonder if she will make it in the performer scene.

For the record, I don't consider Rihanna 'bad pop', some of those songs are extremely catchy and the people behind the songs (The Esther Deans, Stargates) are extremely talented. Even though they are 'behind the scenes', they still will be picking up a hefty paycheck on the royalties from those songs.

MadYaker

At the risk of sounding like a hipster most of the music I listen to these days is never on the radio (at least not in Ireland), it isn't in the charts, and a lot of the people releasing it aren't signed to any major record label and are just kind of doing their own thing via social media and sites like soundcloud and beatport. Id do enjoy some major artists but most of the stuff you'll see on T.V or in the charts is rubbish.

Da Shins Kelly

I wouldn't consider it particularly bad either. They're catchy tunes, very immediate, which is what you need in today's pop climate where everything is changing so rapidly. The people who are able to write these songs and keep coming up with hit after hit in such a fickle musical landscape are very talented people. They clearly know what works and what doesn't in pop music. I'm sure writing a catchy tune that sticks in people's minds is a lot more difficult than it seems. If it was easy everyone would be doing it!

4zn76tysfajdxp

dk1345 wrote: »

im only 34

Woah, 34? Calm down, finish your Horlicks and go to bed, Grandad.

strobe

1967 The Osmands - One bad Apple - 5 Weeks at Number one on the US charts. Massive Radio play.

1967 Jimi Hendrix - Purple Haze - Peaked at number 65 in same charts, for 8 weeks. Most people didn't hear it.

You hear what will appeal most to the people that tend to buy the most singles. Historically young teenage girls. Good music is always out there.

nullzero

Music these days has hit the skids in a big way. Chart music is worse than ever ( yes I know there has always been crap music around), etc etc... But the fact is that people aren't as tuned in to music as they once we're. There are so many distractions that weren't there previously. Music isn't the be all and end all of popular culture anymore. Even the good music (which you have to search for) suffers from the fact that after 50 years of popular music innovations, there just isn't all that much left to do that is truly original and interesting. Hopefully music sees a resurgence in popularity and social importance because right now music is struggling to justify itself in the way it once did with relative ease.

job seeker

dk1345 wrote: »

hi dunno if this is the right place but here goes
been watching Brittan's got talent and will.i,am{or william as i like to call him} was on with his new single and i said to myself what sort of sh1t is this for music im only 34 but seriously what he is releasing these days is unreal crap am i getting too old for modern day music

Eeehhh.. You do realise that William is his real name??? Please tell me you do.. :rolleyes:

biko

God, I remember that there Elvis character with his swinging hips and "rocken di roll".
What an awful racket that music was.

dk1345

job seeker wrote: »

Eeehhh.. You do realise that William is his real name??? Please tell me you do.. :rolleyes:

hence the reason i call him William:rolleyes:

ofcork

Most modern artists have songwriters behind them eg diane warren etc,the use of auto tune has become a lot more popular too.i suppose there are only so many hooks,melodies out there so its samples etc.

GLaDOS

ScienceNerd wrote: »

Some variant of this thread comes up every month it seems.

Lots of great music out there, go find it.

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RoadhouseBlues

dk1345 wrote: »

hi dunno if this is the right place but here goes
been watching Brittan's got talent and will.i,am{or william as i like to call him} was on with his new single and i said to myself what sort of sh1t is this for music im only 34 but seriously what he is releasing these days is unreal crap am i getting too old for modern day music

Cannot listen to todays music. It will not stand the test of time. 60's 70's 80's even some 90's but after that I despair.

Adamantium

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up2SGjWz6H0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8ooot9BiNo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYLpYu2EQxg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mkUp1V3ys0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_XvRHlrbOM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSYPYq9D_No

Everything besides chart music is a goldmine, and is an embarassment of riches.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oV5OGh8D-ok

Irish Guitarist

When I was a young lad the charts were full of real music like Glenn Medeiros, Tiffany, Sonia, Jason Donovan, Sinitta, Rick Astley, Brother Beyond, Bros and Jive Bunny & The Mastermixers.

fearrua

I'll just point out that Dollar were popular in the 80s.

Linky: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVyt8ZlTt8g

Every decade has ****e music as well as good music, ya just gotta look for it.

pragmatic1

Every decade has shyte cringey music but this one has to be the worst. Even cheesy chart music of the past was better than what we have today.