Can you relate to modern chart music? (featuring Pitbull)

karaokeman · 18-10-2013 02:01AM

If you post a music is ****e thread you are a drunk in a club.

TeddyTedson · 18-10-2013 02:04AM

I think music has picked up in the last few years. In the early to mid 00s it was at it's worst.
But come on, it's chart music. It's always going to be forgettable and flavor of the month.

lahalane · 18-10-2013 02:06AM

FameHungry wrote: »

Are you actually basing your opinion of modern music from the charts? Oh ffs...

In fairness, he/she is talking about modern chart music, not modern music.

I relate to very little music anyway. I just like what sounds good. I don't listen out for the lyrics and even if I do, I rarely try to decipher them. I just like a good melody and the modern stuff is as good or bad as it ever was for me.

take everything · 18-10-2013 02:13AM

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

The Specials, Madness, Dexys, Blondie, The Jam? I know there was crap too, but overall, I think it's fair to say there has definitely been a decline when it comes to chart music.

And The Smiths.
An example of a great band no stranger to the charts or TOTP.

anniehoo · 18-10-2013 02:34AM

I'm an 80s ballad lover, 90s raver...but looooove Pitbulls tunes.

Thanks OP, was winding down..and now I'm hyper after youtubing vids. If this is playing...I'm dancin!:D:D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Po5wWmKEaI

Uaru · 18-10-2013 02:35AM

http://www.everyhit.co.uk/retrocharts/1993-August.html

I was 9 in August 2003 but I still know who 95% of those bands are in the link above.

If I looked at this months UK charts I would probably recognise about 5% of the names. In 20 years time a 29 year old will probably know who most of the current bands are but I still won't because I have lost all interest in modern chart music as do most people eventually.

MadsL · 18-10-2013 05:13AM

S28382 wrote: »

Iv a 4month old daughter im already scared sh*tless of what she will be exposed to when she gets older seen as the stuff out now is already from the gutter.

My daughter's iPod has a far better collection than mine, mostly stuff recorded 1970-1999. She's writing a thesis on Punk and Politics in the UK 1976-1986 for her TY.

It's how you rear them

Irish Guitarist · 18-10-2013 06:48AM

You mean as opposed to all the great music that was in the charts 25 or so years ago when Stock, Aitken and Waterman wrote and produced about ninety percent of it?

sdanseo · 18-10-2013 07:02AM

80's ftw

mfceiling · 18-10-2013 07:29AM

Everything is "featuring"

Rhianna featuring The bullet

Pit bull featuring DJ Slam

Akon featuring Random Crap

Seriously who remembers anyone from 2 or 3 years ago?

Stone Roses, Oasis, Blur will be played on the radio for years to come....will any of the crap that passes for music ever be heard again?

gramar · 18-10-2013 07:45AM

I'm surprised they still bother compiling charts anymore because no-one bothers with them. I can honestly say I wouldn't recognise one song from the top 50 for the last 5 years. Probably a sign of my age.

Gongoozler · 18-10-2013 08:26AM

Jesus before ya know it we'll all be out looking for those 80s discos. I feel so old right now.

jimgoose · 18-10-2013 08:29AM

Even as a teenager I never really took a blind bit of notice of the charts. I like '70s rock, a lot of electronica and '50s rock'n'roll/rockabilly. If I ever found myself "relating" to the charts I should hope my friends would think enough of me to take me off somewhere nice and secure where I could make sandcastles without upsetting the nice people.

GorillaRising · 18-10-2013 08:32AM

People who say modern music is sh!t obviously don't maintain much of an interest and just accept the rubbish they're fed by most radio stations and music TV.

There are some f*cking great bands out there.

The stuff in the charts is throwaway stuff. Get to no. 1 in the charts and move on. It's a factory line of pop tarts who are given 'hits' to sing and make money. That's it.

I find chart music has a complete lack of mood or feeling to it, or effort for that matter.

Having said all that a guilty pleasure of mine is watching X Factor!

Obviously it's not for the music!

Savoir.Faire · 18-10-2013 10:00AM

I'm hopelessly and willingly out of touch with modern music, the Coldplays and the Rhiannas of the world. I'd much rather listen to some Woody Guthrie or Ol' Blue Eyes.

I did 'catch a tune' recently while sitting in a doctor's waiting room. It was about a 90's bitch who drives her car into a bridge, watches it burn, but just doesn't care. A very stupid song. Would she not consider ringing her insurance company?

18-10-2013 10:35AM

I like chart music myself, listen to a lot of it and yes I like most of the stuff featuring pitbull

. I listen to a lot of classic dance and hip-hop stuff too. Some rock is ok but I wouldn't listen to it too often, I absolutely despise indie stuff and heavy metal though.

Jamsiek · 18-10-2013 03:12PM

Dexter Long Penny wrote: »

I absolutely despise indie stuff

Very sweeping statement tbh.
How do you define indie?
It's a very broad variety of music.

Jamsiek · 18-10-2013 03:16PM

Since I moved to Canada last year, I find myself listening to different music due to the different charts they have here.

I tend to avoid mainstream teeny/charty music like the plague and luckily there are radio stations that play my kind of music and nothing else so I can leave the radio on and not want to throw it in the bin.

Shiraz 4.99 · 18-10-2013 03:20PM

Once The Beatles were finished they should have just closed the book.

wandatowell · 18-10-2013 03:23PM

Only tossers "relate" to music. If a song is good its good, if its ****e then its ****e.

All this "relating" talk is utter ****e imo

wuzziwig · 18-10-2013 03:26PM

I know all about that Pitbull fella. My kids listen to chart music and I have to buy all those Now 80 whatever albums for them. So I regularly find myself singing along to chart music on the radio.

harry Bailey esq · 18-10-2013 03:28PM

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

The Specials, Madness, Dexys, Blondie, The Jam? I know there was crap too, but overall, I think it's fair to say there has definitely been a decline when it comes to chart music.

+1 on the specials,went to the Olympia gig in may.fkin epic gig.Paul weller of the jam is still releasing stuff it can be a bit hit and miss tho.

donutheadhomer · 18-10-2013 03:30PM

ScienceNerd wrote: »

Chart music is ****e (mostly), lots of good artists out there, the internet is fantastic for smaller/independent artists, especially the likes of soundcloud and bandcamp.

that is the issues - singers/bands became artists

donutheadhomer · 18-10-2013 03:32PM

wuzziwig wrote: »

I know all about that Pitbull fella. My kids listen to chart music and I have to buy all those Now 80 whatever albums for them. So I regularly find myself singing along to chart music on the radio.

That Pillbull fella is so bad http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmM0653YvXU

RikkFlair · 18-10-2013 03:47PM

Irish Guitarist wrote: »

You mean as opposed to all the great music that was in the charts 25 or so years ago when Stock, Aitken and Waterman wrote and produced about ninety percent of it?

That really is when the rot set in tbh.

Chareth Cutestory · 18-10-2013 03:53PM

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 too...

ScumLord · 18-10-2013 03:54PM

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

The Specials, Madness, Dexys, Blondie, The Jam? I know there was crap too, but overall, I think it's fair to say there has definitely been a decline when it comes to chart music.

Technically music has gotten better, technically. But they're working with formulas these days.

The youth of today are at a loss really, it's pretty much all been done at this stage. Since the synthesizer was invented music has gotten all there is to get out of sound. Bar humans getting super hearing that allows us to hear higher or lower frequencies I don't see how there can be any brand new music culture. The entirety of the music scene will be retro in one way or another from now on.

PhilHogan · 18-10-2013 03:55PM

I find the lyrics of the modern music to be too simplistic. I mean, they were always about sex, but they were hidden more in the past. To the point when you could imagine your mother singing 'turning Japanese', without realising that it was a reference to masturbation. I couldn't imagine her dancing around the kitchen to 'Come on rude boy boy can you get it up?'.

Even she'd get that reference, and she's 79.

Blisterman · 18-10-2013 03:58PM

The difference between now and before, is that 20 years ago, you could only find, maybe 100 singles in a record store. Now anyone has 20 million tracks at the click of a button, so while there's still a lot of great artists, and discerning music fans out there, sales are spread a lot more thinly between them, leaving X Factor and the likes to dominate the chart, even if their percentage share of sales is quite low.

wuzziwig · 18-10-2013 03:59PM

donutheadhomer wrote: »

That Pillbull fella is so bad http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmM0653YvXU

You could have put a snake warning on that. :eek:

Can you relate to modern chart music? (featuring Pitbull)

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