In response to "Why is Music so bad today?"
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I was surfing the net the other day looking for general music information to add to my vast pop cultural dictionary that is my head, when I came across an article written by a man named Jason O'Connor.
The name of the article is called "Why is most music so bad today?" It is a very well written article but I have to say, most of the article I disagreed with.
His main argument is that since the 60s, the music industry has been slowly deteriorating into something we can't even call music anymore. I call BS for several reasons. My main reason is that everybody has their own opinion. You can't shoot down numerous decades of music just because it isn't how want it to be. Admittedly there is a lot of music out there for the sole purpose of making money. That's fine... and it works, like any other business. But narrowing all the good music down to two decades is pretty ludicrous.
He seems to overlook the fact that music is completely emotive. Even the people out there looking to make money have to put some kind of emotion into their music... or else it wouldn't have been written at all. It can be simple or complex, it doesn't matter. The music is made and people can relate to it or they can't. It's art. In my opinion, it isn't for you, or anyone other than the creator to express emotions they can't do in other ways.
He does contradict himself at one point by saying music these days is just a rehash of the 60s and 70s... and then later on goes on to say he wishes artists these days were more like the 60s and 70s. I thought that was kind of funny.
"The music of the 80's matched the hair and clothes of the time, lame."
I don't think he thought that through before he said it. Let's start out with metal. Rob Halford and Judas Priest : Leather from head to two, spikes all over their clothing, motorcycles, piercings. The BeeGees: Need I say more? Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin: Long Hair, Jimmy Page's ridiculous jump suits... you can't tell me he would wear that if he was an everyday person walking around on the street. Music and Style have always been something that goes hand in hand... you have to accept the good styles and the bad styles.
I have a feeling the author of this article had a mullet in the 80s
"The synthesizer was new then, but the music was reasonably bad, and certainly not timeless."
Excuse me?! Some of David Bowie's best stuff came out in the 80s. What about the whole punk movement? The birth of thrash metal(improv skills is something that is a must for lead guitarists.) You mean to tell me Metallica's albums from the 80s aren't timeless? Master of Puppets is a bible to many young hard rockers. What about The Cure and the Goth scene? The Cure has put out some timeless music....
In conclusion, I have to say... The great music is out there. You have to look for it. You can't expect it to be the way it was, but you will find stuff with those elements.
I'm getting pretty into this and I have work to do. I will probably post more later... but I just wanted to do a little blurb about that article.
Thanks for reading!
PS. Sorry if my points were all garbled and mixed up, I'm not used to writing :)
The name of the article is called "Why is most music so bad today?" It is a very well written article but I have to say, most of the article I disagreed with.
His main argument is that since the 60s, the music industry has been slowly deteriorating into something we can't even call music anymore. I call BS for several reasons. My main reason is that everybody has their own opinion. You can't shoot down numerous decades of music just because it isn't how want it to be. Admittedly there is a lot of music out there for the sole purpose of making money. That's fine... and it works, like any other business. But narrowing all the good music down to two decades is pretty ludicrous.
He seems to overlook the fact that music is completely emotive. Even the people out there looking to make money have to put some kind of emotion into their music... or else it wouldn't have been written at all. It can be simple or complex, it doesn't matter. The music is made and people can relate to it or they can't. It's art. In my opinion, it isn't for you, or anyone other than the creator to express emotions they can't do in other ways.
He does contradict himself at one point by saying music these days is just a rehash of the 60s and 70s... and then later on goes on to say he wishes artists these days were more like the 60s and 70s. I thought that was kind of funny.
"The music of the 80's matched the hair and clothes of the time, lame."
I don't think he thought that through before he said it. Let's start out with metal. Rob Halford and Judas Priest : Leather from head to two, spikes all over their clothing, motorcycles, piercings. The BeeGees: Need I say more? Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin: Long Hair, Jimmy Page's ridiculous jump suits... you can't tell me he would wear that if he was an everyday person walking around on the street. Music and Style have always been something that goes hand in hand... you have to accept the good styles and the bad styles.
I have a feeling the author of this article had a mullet in the 80s
"The synthesizer was new then, but the music was reasonably bad, and certainly not timeless."
Excuse me?! Some of David Bowie's best stuff came out in the 80s. What about the whole punk movement? The birth of thrash metal(improv skills is something that is a must for lead guitarists.) You mean to tell me Metallica's albums from the 80s aren't timeless? Master of Puppets is a bible to many young hard rockers. What about The Cure and the Goth scene? The Cure has put out some timeless music....
In conclusion, I have to say... The great music is out there. You have to look for it. You can't expect it to be the way it was, but you will find stuff with those elements.
I'm getting pretty into this and I have work to do. I will probably post more later... but I just wanted to do a little blurb about that article.
Thanks for reading!
PS. Sorry if my points were all garbled and mixed up, I'm not used to writing :)
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Indeed. I don't think a lot of the music he's talking about really went away... I just think it morphed. Take pop-punk for example. I would say, if anything, they lean more towards hair metal and those big flashy bands like bon jovi than punk.
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I would the writer of the article he simply isn't listening or looking past mainstream music if he thinks good music isn't being made now. Some of the best music ever IMO is happening now, I'll use Wilco as an example of that. People who think that only great music was made between 1964 and 1977 tend to ignore all the crap that went hand in hand with the good stuff. Just google what songs topped the charts from 1967-69 for a reminder that for every Whole Lotta Love there was 20 times more sappy pop songs. Good music has been made in every decade, to ignore or deny that is ignorant.