is it just me, or is most modern music crap?

The venga bus is coming. Get that out of your heads now.;)

141_Oscar_Mike wrote: »

"I'm a barbie girl"

F**king die. Slowly

Actually, I always took that song to be a clever feminist critique of vacuous consumerist culture which satirized the subservient, shallow gender roles that toys like Barbie imposed upon young girls & how this played out in wider society. Lyrics like "life in plastic, it's fantastic" & "You can brush my hair, undress me everywhere" are actually biting attacks on a popular culture which so often encourages women to obsess over their looks (plastic = cosmetic surgery/credit card spending) & to measure their worth in terms of their ability to find a man to complete them.

Suas11 wrote: »

Also, people who moan that there's no good music these days have absolutely no right to complain. It's easier than ever before to find new music or even lesser known artists from decades before. It's all just a few clicks away yet some people can't be bothered looking and would rather moan about the apparent state of modern music.

People have every right to complain, just as you have every right to disagree with them. How do you know people who make such complaints haven't come to this conclusion (not necessarily one I agree with personally) after listening to a large amount of what's available online from today & previous decades & deciding that what's being made today is inferior? The wider availability of music thanks to Spotify, Youtube etc means that everything from Bach & Purcell to Justin Bieber & Portishead can be accessed & compared in a way that was never open to previous generations.
Yes Grandad may have complained about the racket those ruffians in the Stones were making but he probably only had (if he was lucky) a couple of dozen 78s plus whatever was on the wireless as the basis of his musical knowledge (excluding traditional/folk music). Today's equivalent music curmudgeon has a far wider spectrum of stuff available to him so his/her opinion is likely to be based on hearing more music than those with similar opinions a generation or two ago could have dreamt of. If someone does use all those resources & still comes to the conclusion that modern music is crap, what would you say then?