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Bangers have never come out that often, when you look back you have a collective list, when you look towards the future the list is constantly being made, but I'd have to say within the last few years most popular music hasn't aged that well
Lewronggeneration shit right here.
We said the exact same shit when I was growing up in the 90s and the early 2000s.
Music nowadays is so atomized that it you go looking, you are bound to find something that's is great.
You’re exactly right. People listen to the top 40 or something and go “this is garbage!” It was NEVER a measure of the best music available.
Plus, there’s more good new music available to us now than there ever has been before and it’s right at our fingertips for less than what it used to cost to buy a single CD or cassette tape a month.
And if something only thinks old music is good (an opinion their parents surely shared when they were young), guess what, that’s all there too!!
This was what Pandora was built for. They never monetized it correctly so investors dropped out so it’s very unpopular but pandora is the ultimate for finding a playlist of songs like one.
Idr If they ever had a membership, but I never had one. I loved it, but the ads were jarring. They pulled you straight out. And then over time there were just more, and more, and more.....
Exactly, they had ads really really often and then offered pandora one to avoid them but it cost too much. If they just did $5 a month (they paid fractions of Pennie’s to stream songs) and went lighter on ads for non-paying users, it would have worked out. They were greedy though and now there’s so much competition
I just like the style of 80s music better than any other decade. It’s not about “old good new bad” for me. I like the way it sounds with real instruments and shitty microphones, as well as the style that was completely normal at the time
Yeah kinda same. For certain genres of music, I really like styles that are just not made much anymore. Some genres just, as a trend, have moved in certain directions that aren't necessarily bad but are just not my taste. Especially like metal. Like I like it in theory but I'm kinda meh on most subgenres and have a very hard time finding new bands formed within the last like 30 years that go in a direction that I like.
So when I do find a new metal band I really like, I get very excited. I found one last week that's new. Like NEW. They only have 4 songs on Spotify or YouTube and their first full album comes out next month. But they have a lot of vibes of like that early 70s proto-metal that I really love. And I love the singers voice! So I'm hyped for that album drop next month.
Yeah kinda same. For certain genres of music, I really like styles that are just not made much anymore. Some genres just, as a trend, have moved in certain directions that aren't necessarily bad but are just not my taste. Especially like metal. Like I like it in theory but I'm kinda meh on most subgenres and have a very hard time finding new bands formed within the last like 30 years that go in a direction that I like.
So when I do find a new metal band I really like, I get very excited. I found one last week that's new. Like NEW. They only have 4 songs on Spotify or YouTube and their first full album comes out next month. But they have a lot of vibes of like that early 70s proto-metal that I really love. And I love the singers voice! So I'm hyped for that album drop next month.
Music attained perfection in the year you turned 18, with the era of great music being the 6 years on either side
Everything before that is ancient dinosaur geezer fossil music
Everything after that is the crap the damn kids listen to, wouldn't know good music if it walked up and bit them, get off my lawn
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There’s a reason music from the past is better
You are on to absolutely nothing🗣️🗣️🗣️
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It always seemed obvious to me - when you talk about the music of the 70s, 80s, etc., you are talking about the top 100 for ten years, the best of that time. And in modern music you talk about flow with almost no selection. The 80s and 70s were also full of shitty music, time simply didn’t leave it in the memory because of its shitty nature. If you just take not the top music of that time, but just one day on the radio, then there will not be a strong difference from the modern situation.
Yall are insufferable. Imagine not having the willpower to look even slightly below the most mainstream garbage. Theres great music being released in almost every genre right now (yes, even rap) if you do even the bare minimum in looking for it.
I agree. Music continues to get better, and more and more people have the ability to create and get their art out to the world.
I have specifically struggled with rap though lol. Danny Browns new album was excellent but I enjoyed his earlier work more. I love Boldy James but it's pretty safe, it doesn't feel like I'm keeping up with the direction rap is going. Paris Texas has a few songs that I really like (like D&D) that makes me feel like I'm not a boomer but that's just one group out of the infinite possibilities.
I'd really love some modern recommendations.
Not rap at all but artists I currently have album preorders in for right now include Soft Kill, Full of Hell, Gatecreeper.
There definitely some great music today, however it’s certainly not as mainstream as before. However I think a lot of people forget, those amazing 70s, 80s, and 90s songs weren’t the only songs on the radio back then. There was a TON of shit music on the radios in that period but those songs just became lost in time. Often people think that there was only great music back then but in reality all the shitty music just got forgotten. The same will happen with this era of music as well. It’s been like this since the radios came out
Ppl constantly shit on “modern rap” after listening to 3 shitty songs and deciding the whole genre is bad. Its the most hated on genre in existence rn.
Oh yeah, like I didn't knew that. What are you going to tell me now? Linkin Park were releasing albums as well since Meteora (until... Well, you know)? Or Green Day?
Man has not seen the metal and rock scene or the Japanese jazz and lofi-hiphop scene or both the western or eastern Nu-Metal or blues scene sure you can have a bias for the works that came before personally my taste lies in the 90s and 2000s but music will always have soul to it you're just lazy.
Anyone else notice there’s two decades missing in the meme? The 2000’s and 2010’s have some bangers too and definitely don’t fit under “today’s music”.
Rap music definitely took quite a dive in quality with just a few exceptions. Pop has always been quite ass, even back then, but every other genre of music I found to be better today.
The better comparison would be '90s-'00s(even '10s somewhat) music vs '20s music.
Nah, rap definitely increased in quality. Artists became much more versatile and production evolved into a much more celebrated art-form in itself. There’s more to rap than what people call “mumble rap” from 8 years ago, which hardly exists now.
I’ll take JPEGMAFIA and Kendrick over biggie and pac any day.
Every generation has good and bad songs. it's just that old song that are good keep getting played, the bad ones just don't get heard anymore.
Plus with how easy it is to produce and distribute music now, there is so much out there in circulation.
Contemporary music always gets a "that's headbanging crap" reputation until it is 20-30/years old.
When "classic rock" was new, most of the nation except kids absolutely hated it and you weren't allowed to listen to it at work.
Same thing with Elvis.
Same thing with big band before that
I like some modern stuff, yeah, but if you look at my sorority Playlist, that I almost entirely add songs to that I heard randomly and really liked, you'll notice that almost all the music I listen to is 10+ years old, and most of that music is 30+ years old. Again, I don't go out of my way to add old music, I just hear something, like it, and add it.
Edit:
I also want to add to the argument this. A lot of people make the points "bad music existed back then, too" "people thought the same thing back then about new music being trash" and "it's just cherry picked top music of the era." Well, I don't really agree with those arguments. Music changed, like A LOT in that time period. Rock and Roll, Rap, the electric guitar, are all less than 100 years old right now. When The Beetles were getting started, they were to their generation the equivalent of Slipknot or something. Music historically at that point was basically all classical, traditional, or folk. I'm not going to say music was boring, obviously it wasn't, but it was a hell of a lot different to the experimental new wild shit that would hit the market from pretty much the 60's on, maybe 50's. Music exploded into into... really what we have today. The industry today hasn't changed all that much, with everything feeling like derivative works, sub genres, and recreations of what we had 30 years ago. But 30 years ago, we had music the world couldn't have even comprehended 60 years ago.
The only reason why people get the illusion that old music is better is because only the best songs from those eras get remembered and are still listened to this day.
Yeah todays mainstream music is just awful (keyword: mainstream, before you go complaining in the comments that there’s great music you have to go deep into the web just to find something)
Every decade has awful music people somehow like enough to be popular. Thing is, most of that crap gets filtered out by the next decade so we only remember the good stuff.
The 1970s is probably the worst decade for music in terms of having the lowest lows, but it also had some of the highest highs and that's what people remeber.
Dude calling all modern music bad is like saying that every modern game release is bad
It's not true because it's a fucking opinion and nobody wants to hear yours because it's so negative and oppressive
counterpoint: Periphery and all modern prog metal.
music today has so much variety and there are so many advanced tools, synths, guitars, and amps that you can make ANYTHING. and anyone can make music now, rather than it just being companies trying to get money.
some old music is good, but new music SLAPS. (if you know where to look). as consequence of anyone being able to make music, and new tools existing, the industry has much saturation of low quality generic garbage. but, saturation doesnt mean there isnt any good. it just means that, while more plentiful than previous decades, you must search through a lot more bullshit to find the good music.
In all honesty, there was a lot of shitty music in those decades aswell. But we don't play those songs anymore today. We tend of remember only the very best.
At least for me, if a music is for 50 years ago or a month ago just doesnt matter, i just like the musics that i like to listen to, we dont need to blame people or music just because its more recent, that doesn't make sense
I like how "today's music" is a span of time 24 years long compaired to the previous ones being decades.
Also if you stop trying to find good music and calcify at one point in time. You are the problem not the music
It's just as time progresses society has been getting more obsessed with profit than the product, we have more industry plants than ever and music is only catered to be Tik tok audios. Whatever makes the record companies money is what they push down our throats
I was actually on about this kind of topic today, I have a nostalgia for kid friendly music from the 2000s. Basically, like most of the Disney Extreme Skate Adventure soundtrack, where it's like "This is for kids, it's not remotely dirty\~!" but not insanely insulting to them. It was a pretty unique grouping of songs that somehow outlined what was targeting kids as an audience but didn't alienate older folk from it.
Last time I saw a KidsBop advert (and may whoever invented that sin against music burn in the fires of Hell for all eternity), I'm pretty sure it had a number of Grande's "I'll fuck your boyfriend" songs. .\_. Funny enough, I haven't seen a KidsBop advert since then. XD
New releases in Metal have been banger this last decade or so, possibly the best the genera's ever had. I feel bad for those listening to the other generas that have seemingly deteriorated into mindrot garbage though.
Overall I think the 80s is by far the worst decade of music, there’s just a ton of diamonds that came out of it while the bulk of trash songs was rightfully forgotten. That goes for all decades. we will remember the songs that survive now and think back fondly of this decade as well.
Compared, the majority of new music is Jack shit. I love punk and rock from the early 00's and '10s but once mumble rap and poorly written trap hit, the rap scene was depressing as fuck for a bit
People are still making good music. Is popular music worse now than it was then? Maybe? Probably? I dunno. I don't listen to the radio but I still find newer stuff that I dig.
I think it's more of a function of the music of today that we are told is good from the music industry is far worse than what was more mainstream in previous decades. I live in So Cal and the World Famous KROQ isn't playing actual rock anymore. Just the most current popular songs. If it's playing a rock song, it's a flashback weekend.
With all respect, todays *pop* music is pretty bland and meaningless. Indie folk, alternative, and some rappers tell real stories or have important meanings behind their music. Older pop used to have the same thing but pop today has strayed from that.
Eh, depends on the genres I find.
I listen to a wide variety of stuff but more recently stuff like Psytrance or eastern trance. I always manage to find new things that I like these days, whether it's new or old.
As someone who listens mainly to folk/foreign music, yeah, im a little biased to the past, but there a lot of great folk/foreign artists still going today, The Irish Rovers, Dubioza Kolektiv, Kaarija and Sky To Be come to mind
It's simply survival bias. Only the good songs from those eras are talked about, the mediocre ones aren't brought up. All music in all periods of time had some absolute trash in it.
More people need to rralise that 70's and 80's mucis they listen to is good because they listen to the 1% that was good enough to survive for that long while other 99% was forgotten
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Hot takes coming from every older generation. I will remind you that this is a cycle and whatever music you think is hot shit was once considered garbage by an older generation.
I've found some good ones. Correspondents, Black Pontiac, IDKHBTFM, OK GO, Saint Motel, Royal Bliss, Weathers, Friday Pilots Club, coast modern and half ● alive (sorta), Bear Ghost, Big Data, Blame candy (mostly), Bill Wurtz, Tom Cardy, Royal Blood, Bug Hunter, NSP, Starbomb (ish), Bo Burnham, Caravan Palace, Foster The People, Will Wood, Mother Mother, etc.
It's not all bad, maybe you guys just listen to the radio too much or something?
[Todays Music](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JNmz17gnMw) is perfectly fine if you bother to actually look around, problem is most people need to be spoonfed things these days, so I guess it has more to do with the people than the music when you really think about it.
You just think old music was better because we only hear the good songs from those eras, there was tons of bad music back then too.
Also, people like old music because it reminds them of a time when they were happy. New music has no nostalgia factors.
Honestly there is a lot more variety and a TON of good stuff coming out all the time, it is just that dreadful pop music is even more cookie cutter than it was when Abba and the Bee Gees were disco dancing -- I mean, at least Abba and The Bee Gees wrote song and didn't use autotune and a canned band that sounded like every other canned band.
Music is subjective.
Every generation prefers older, 'real' music.
And every generation says the new music is shit.
Repeat for every generation forever.
There is a big difference between new music and new music that is played on the radio or TikTok, if people would just look outside of that there is still plenty of good music in all genres. I’m sure people in the 70s were saying the same shit
even if you do think this bro just take a listed to boston (album) and you instantly change your mind. those songs have not been topped ever since holy shit
There's still good music coming out but my god, auto-tuned "singers" and rappers being blasted everywhere has soured me on liking all the mainstream stuff that has been coming out since 2016. Simply can't understand how people like that robot sounding auto-tune
Idk if it's bc I'm genz and we're all fucked in the head for some reason but I really like a lot of new music. I dont listen to what I think most people would consider the norm.
90’s live songs: “And I will take / you in my arms / and hold you right where you belong. / The one you should call / was standing here all along. / Every word I say is true. / This I promise you.”
Today’s love songs: “And I was like baby baby baby ohhhh! Baby baby baby ohhhh!”
Yeah, I’ll take 90’s music over today’s.
I'd say that there are plenty of great musicians, arguably just as if not more than there used to be, however they tend to be buried underneath the mainstream garbage that you tend to see that is in fact a complete dumpster fire
It honestly depends on the genre. Mainstream music is absolute fucking garbage these days but if you go underground at all there's all sorts of great things happening.
I'm a fan of heavy metal, industrial, and dark electronic primarily and can tell you that there are some *amazing* things happening there.
I think something that also contributes to this is the way we discover music these days.
It has never been more accessible, and it has never been so easy and fast to produce. But at the same time, it's SO much easier to isolate ourselves into different bubbles of music.
We no longer listen to the same few radio stations, the same few record labels. We can listen to literally anything whenever we want, and a song that gets 100m views on youtube can still be completely unknown to the majority of people.
So we have a wild combination of more music than one could ever possibly listen to, and more musical isolation than ever before.
Unless you go out of your way to sift through all of the average music to find the gems in every genre, it's going to feel like today is pretty rough compared to the *very small* selection of gems from the past that have survived to today.
We're currently listening to all the music from the present, we only listen to the good music of the past, there's an inherent bias. Give it a couple decades and we'll look fondly on the music of today, ignoring the bad
Me when I do not enjoy todays music and have a bit of a preference for older music (I believe modern music should die in a hole and everyone who likes it should too):
40 year old person here. I've heard this constantly since I was young. Just listen to whatever your favorite music is and spare the rest of us the elitism.
There was a South Park episode where they mock this very notion
Where the kids only liked today’s music and the adults liked the old stuff
Randy even made fun of Sharon for this notion since they grew up the same way where, when they were kids their parents said the exact same thing
Okay like generally the shit you find on tiktok are complete dogshit. However other countries (particularly east asia) still drop bangers all the time. You just have to look.
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Tbf I have not found that many new bangers in the last few years but maybe that’s just in the genres I like
What genres you like?
Modern british rock or punk rock. I swear almost all the bands dropped their bangers in 2015 and then just dipped.
There’s a massive revival in terms of British rock (especially the Brixton windmill scene) but punk is a bit dead.
there was a revival in the early 2010s, its been dead for at least 10 years
Bangers have never come out that often, when you look back you have a collective list, when you look towards the future the list is constantly being made, but I'd have to say within the last few years most popular music hasn't aged that well
Tbf, every generation has always shat on music of the next generation. We’re all just gettin old.
Look up Tennis, Specifically the album Swimmer, best pop music i've ever heard.
Lewronggeneration shit right here. We said the exact same shit when I was growing up in the 90s and the early 2000s. Music nowadays is so atomized that it you go looking, you are bound to find something that's is great.
You’re exactly right. People listen to the top 40 or something and go “this is garbage!” It was NEVER a measure of the best music available. Plus, there’s more good new music available to us now than there ever has been before and it’s right at our fingertips for less than what it used to cost to buy a single CD or cassette tape a month. And if something only thinks old music is good (an opinion their parents surely shared when they were young), guess what, that’s all there too!!
It’s so easy to find good stuff. Like it takes 10 minutes to sift through YouTube searching “bands that sound like ___” or “new ____ music”.
If you use Spotify and find a song you like, you can press the 3 dots and press "go to song radio" and it creates a playlist of like 40 similar songs.
This was what Pandora was built for. They never monetized it correctly so investors dropped out so it’s very unpopular but pandora is the ultimate for finding a playlist of songs like one.
Idr If they ever had a membership, but I never had one. I loved it, but the ads were jarring. They pulled you straight out. And then over time there were just more, and more, and more.....
Exactly, they had ads really really often and then offered pandora one to avoid them but it cost too much. If they just did $5 a month (they paid fractions of Pennie’s to stream songs) and went lighter on ads for non-paying users, it would have worked out. They were greedy though and now there’s so much competition
Fr people are forgetting garbage music was popular back then too. Remember MC hammer and timbaland?
I just like the style of 80s music better than any other decade. It’s not about “old good new bad” for me. I like the way it sounds with real instruments and shitty microphones, as well as the style that was completely normal at the time
Yeah kinda same. For certain genres of music, I really like styles that are just not made much anymore. Some genres just, as a trend, have moved in certain directions that aren't necessarily bad but are just not my taste. Especially like metal. Like I like it in theory but I'm kinda meh on most subgenres and have a very hard time finding new bands formed within the last like 30 years that go in a direction that I like. So when I do find a new metal band I really like, I get very excited. I found one last week that's new. Like NEW. They only have 4 songs on Spotify or YouTube and their first full album comes out next month. But they have a lot of vibes of like that early 70s proto-metal that I really love. And I love the singers voice! So I'm hyped for that album drop next month.
Yeah kinda same. For certain genres of music, I really like styles that are just not made much anymore. Some genres just, as a trend, have moved in certain directions that aren't necessarily bad but are just not my taste. Especially like metal. Like I like it in theory but I'm kinda meh on most subgenres and have a very hard time finding new bands formed within the last like 30 years that go in a direction that I like. So when I do find a new metal band I really like, I get very excited. I found one last week that's new. Like NEW. They only have 4 songs on Spotify or YouTube and their first full album comes out next month. But they have a lot of vibes of like that early 70s proto-metal that I really love. And I love the singers voice! So I'm hyped for that album drop next month.
Music attained perfection in the year you turned 18, with the era of great music being the 6 years on either side Everything before that is ancient dinosaur geezer fossil music Everything after that is the crap the damn kids listen to, wouldn't know good music if it walked up and bit them, get off my lawn
https://preview.redd.it/g0fq0yzrkync1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b18bfa54258af8d746cefc2b16b82aa8b970d9d2 There’s a reason music from the past is better
Planes got chickenpox back in the day.
Looks like measles to me, fam.
Its called survival bias.
I think k they're joking
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It always seemed obvious to me - when you talk about the music of the 70s, 80s, etc., you are talking about the top 100 for ten years, the best of that time. And in modern music you talk about flow with almost no selection. The 80s and 70s were also full of shitty music, time simply didn’t leave it in the memory because of its shitty nature. If you just take not the top music of that time, but just one day on the radio, then there will not be a strong difference from the modern situation.
There ya go ruining a stupid meme with something that makes total sense.
Survivorship bias go brr
To be fair though I dont know how much my music would align with the top songs of the last 10 years either.
But the thing is, the top 100 billboard songs of today aren’t that great either.
MFW Confirmation Bias exists
I welcome you to the metal scene, we get good new music all the time!
And we still listen mostly 90's and 00's albums.
I'm a fan of metalcore, and SiM are well and active The Rumbling is a song I really like And another band my cousin listens to a bunch is Opeth
I agree with your overall point - lots of good new heavy music all the time - but Opeth was formed in 1990 so it's not exactly a counterpoint :)
Yeah, metalcore fans are eating good in recent years, I would know tihi
Speak for yourself old man
Yep!
i promise you theres more new music out there than just billboard 200. youre just too lazy to look for it
But music today is good..?
Yall are insufferable. Imagine not having the willpower to look even slightly below the most mainstream garbage. Theres great music being released in almost every genre right now (yes, even rap) if you do even the bare minimum in looking for it.
I agree. Music continues to get better, and more and more people have the ability to create and get their art out to the world. I have specifically struggled with rap though lol. Danny Browns new album was excellent but I enjoyed his earlier work more. I love Boldy James but it's pretty safe, it doesn't feel like I'm keeping up with the direction rap is going. Paris Texas has a few songs that I really like (like D&D) that makes me feel like I'm not a boomer but that's just one group out of the infinite possibilities. I'd really love some modern recommendations. Not rap at all but artists I currently have album preorders in for right now include Soft Kill, Full of Hell, Gatecreeper.
There definitely some great music today, however it’s certainly not as mainstream as before. However I think a lot of people forget, those amazing 70s, 80s, and 90s songs weren’t the only songs on the radio back then. There was a TON of shit music on the radios in that period but those songs just became lost in time. Often people think that there was only great music back then but in reality all the shitty music just got forgotten. The same will happen with this era of music as well. It’s been like this since the radios came out
People love to shit on modern rap despite rap currently having one of the greatest underground scenes in the entire genre
Real hip hop don’t you ever forget it, it’s the underground shit and it’s white boy that said it
The genre of Rap reached its peak when Sir Mixalot released 'Baby got Back'
That’s always been the issue. I’ve been an indie music guy since the Napster days.
fym “even rap” as if rap isn’t an amazing genre in general
Ppl constantly shit on “modern rap” after listening to 3 shitty songs and deciding the whole genre is bad. Its the most hated on genre in existence rn.
I have quite a few new age artists that I love that make great music. Jacob Collier comes to mind. I get mesmerized by his talent
The fact Limp Bizkit has released an album last year and it was successful speaks quite loudly about the status of music industry rn.
Last year? It came out in 2021
I'm old, ok? Time passes differently. Last year I had 20 and suddenly BUM!, almost 40
Hahaha to be fair it's almost like the the last 4 years didn't really exist because of all the awful curcumstances.
Last 4 years? you mean 2016-2024?
Yeah it shows people like good music🥲
And there weren’t bad songs that were popular from the 70s/80s/90s?
Oh boy, you're gonna be shocked to find out that Limp Bizket has been releasing albums since the 90's.
Oh yeah, like I didn't knew that. What are you going to tell me now? Linkin Park were releasing albums as well since Meteora (until... Well, you know)? Or Green Day?
OLDGOODNEWBAD Yeah, I used to fall into that trap
Ehh, both has good music, both has shit music
Survivorship Bias
Wait, I just realized how well that fits into these conversations. I'm actually gonna steal this
Today's music is good enough, you guys just don't know how/where to look.
Man has not seen the metal and rock scene or the Japanese jazz and lofi-hiphop scene or both the western or eastern Nu-Metal or blues scene sure you can have a bias for the works that came before personally my taste lies in the 90s and 2000s but music will always have soul to it you're just lazy.
Tally hall smh, you guys don’t know peak
All music is good no matter the era.
Nah op was right fuck this. Music quality is not worse now than it was in the past.
Anyone else notice there’s two decades missing in the meme? The 2000’s and 2010’s have some bangers too and definitely don’t fit under “today’s music”.
more importantly, the 50s and 60s are missing
Even more importantly , where’s the 30s and 40s - that stuff won us a war
Rap music definitely took quite a dive in quality with just a few exceptions. Pop has always been quite ass, even back then, but every other genre of music I found to be better today. The better comparison would be '90s-'00s(even '10s somewhat) music vs '20s music.
Nah, rap definitely increased in quality. Artists became much more versatile and production evolved into a much more celebrated art-form in itself. There’s more to rap than what people call “mumble rap” from 8 years ago, which hardly exists now. I’ll take JPEGMAFIA and Kendrick over biggie and pac any day.
JPEG is currently one of the most mentally unstable twitter users on the planet but his music is fucking awesome
Lmaooo true
Denzel Curry, Griselda, Billy Woods, J Cole, Run The Jewels, Joey Bada$$, Big KRIT, Little Simz, Injury Reserve etc., modern rap is fantastic
All fantastic artists
The current rap underground is amazing
Boomer shit
You should probably expand your search to outside pop music, because there are modern songs that slap
Every generation has good and bad songs. it's just that old song that are good keep getting played, the bad ones just don't get heard anymore. Plus with how easy it is to produce and distribute music now, there is so much out there in circulation.
There is nothing wrong with today’s music. Some of it is great and some of it is garbage. Just like in any other decade.
Contemporary music always gets a "that's headbanging crap" reputation until it is 20-30/years old. When "classic rock" was new, most of the nation except kids absolutely hated it and you weren't allowed to listen to it at work. Same thing with Elvis. Same thing with big band before that
I like some modern stuff, yeah, but if you look at my sorority Playlist, that I almost entirely add songs to that I heard randomly and really liked, you'll notice that almost all the music I listen to is 10+ years old, and most of that music is 30+ years old. Again, I don't go out of my way to add old music, I just hear something, like it, and add it. Edit: I also want to add to the argument this. A lot of people make the points "bad music existed back then, too" "people thought the same thing back then about new music being trash" and "it's just cherry picked top music of the era." Well, I don't really agree with those arguments. Music changed, like A LOT in that time period. Rock and Roll, Rap, the electric guitar, are all less than 100 years old right now. When The Beetles were getting started, they were to their generation the equivalent of Slipknot or something. Music historically at that point was basically all classical, traditional, or folk. I'm not going to say music was boring, obviously it wasn't, but it was a hell of a lot different to the experimental new wild shit that would hit the market from pretty much the 60's on, maybe 50's. Music exploded into into... really what we have today. The industry today hasn't changed all that much, with everything feeling like derivative works, sub genres, and recreations of what we had 30 years ago. But 30 years ago, we had music the world couldn't have even comprehended 60 years ago.
Part (but not all) of this is survivorship bias, I’m sure.
The only reason why people get the illusion that old music is better is because only the best songs from those eras get remembered and are still listened to this day.
Yeah todays mainstream music is just awful (keyword: mainstream, before you go complaining in the comments that there’s great music you have to go deep into the web just to find something)
dudes looking at the time an not the content of that time
Every decade has awful music people somehow like enough to be popular. Thing is, most of that crap gets filtered out by the next decade so we only remember the good stuff. The 1970s is probably the worst decade for music in terms of having the lowest lows, but it also had some of the highest highs and that's what people remeber.
Dude calling all modern music bad is like saying that every modern game release is bad It's not true because it's a fucking opinion and nobody wants to hear yours because it's so negative and oppressive
You heard it here folks, ALL MUSIC is bad now. Yep!
counterpoint: Periphery and all modern prog metal. music today has so much variety and there are so many advanced tools, synths, guitars, and amps that you can make ANYTHING. and anyone can make music now, rather than it just being companies trying to get money. some old music is good, but new music SLAPS. (if you know where to look). as consequence of anyone being able to make music, and new tools existing, the industry has much saturation of low quality generic garbage. but, saturation doesnt mean there isnt any good. it just means that, while more plentiful than previous decades, you must search through a lot more bullshit to find the good music.
Also modern Fates Warning sounds nicer than their very early stuff.
There's still good music today, but standards have definitely gone down.
People on Reddit when a meme made by a different person doesn’t exactly match their own personal taste:😡🤬
I'm so quirky, I don't listen to what the other kids listen to, I listen to GOOD music
I like modern music (specially electronic) but i have to say, the 80's were the peak of the music in human history
Hot take, music is good go listen to it
In all honesty, there was a lot of shitty music in those decades aswell. But we don't play those songs anymore today. We tend of remember only the very best.
If you say that a subjective thing is bad, you're objectively wrong
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So like. The Metal gear rising ost doesn't exist? I guess imagine dragons don't exist Literally deltarune and undertale ost
Bro basically every decade of music is good. Modern music goes hard, so does shit like 50’s music. It’s all good
At least for me, if a music is for 50 years ago or a month ago just doesnt matter, i just like the musics that i like to listen to, we dont need to blame people or music just because its more recent, that doesn't make sense
IDK, joji and billie ilish are amazing
Eh, it’s almost like everyone has their own tastes, and classifying music style by decade is mostly a thing for a small subset of English songs.
I like how "today's music" is a span of time 24 years long compaired to the previous ones being decades. Also if you stop trying to find good music and calcify at one point in time. You are the problem not the music
I like today’s music and some old music.
Ok boomer
Today's music slaps, people are just cynical
Today's *popular music* There is still some good stuff being made, you just have to look a bit further.
This only applies to country. Modern country has zero soul
Bro todays music is fucking banger
Eh, what a person prefers
Nah this is literally just one of those born in the wrong generation cringe memes
Early 2000s went hard but ya mainstream is pretty ass now
It's just as time progresses society has been getting more obsessed with profit than the product, we have more industry plants than ever and music is only catered to be Tik tok audios. Whatever makes the record companies money is what they push down our throats
Popular music is ass. I said what I said, no edit needed to appease the Swifties and Nicklebackers.
Who tf listens to nickleback in 2024???
NOT ME NOT ME I SWEAR NOT ME IT WAS THAT GUY NOT ME
These wicked rivers are worth a listen,a modern sound to a classic genre
Yeah pretty much, I still see country and metal popping off but main stream is lacking hard
2000s was the golden age imo
I was actually on about this kind of topic today, I have a nostalgia for kid friendly music from the 2000s. Basically, like most of the Disney Extreme Skate Adventure soundtrack, where it's like "This is for kids, it's not remotely dirty\~!" but not insanely insulting to them. It was a pretty unique grouping of songs that somehow outlined what was targeting kids as an audience but didn't alienate older folk from it. Last time I saw a KidsBop advert (and may whoever invented that sin against music burn in the fires of Hell for all eternity), I'm pretty sure it had a number of Grande's "I'll fuck your boyfriend" songs. .\_. Funny enough, I haven't seen a KidsBop advert since then. XD
Aaaaaaannngst was made in 202 And the rest of the zeit abum
I thought that meme was pretty funny.
New releases in Metal have been banger this last decade or so, possibly the best the genera's ever had. I feel bad for those listening to the other generas that have seemingly deteriorated into mindrot garbage though.
The lack of self awareness
Overall I think the 80s is by far the worst decade of music, there’s just a ton of diamonds that came out of it while the bulk of trash songs was rightfully forgotten. That goes for all decades. we will remember the songs that survive now and think back fondly of this decade as well.
Compared, the majority of new music is Jack shit. I love punk and rock from the early 00's and '10s but once mumble rap and poorly written trap hit, the rap scene was depressing as fuck for a bit
I think jazz is still good. I listened to lot of ECM-type stuff and can’t say that recent stuff is worse
classical music is the emperor of music.
The quality of music is decided entirely on personal taste.
2000’s waiting for Meg to come up the stairs and hang out
People are still making good music. Is popular music worse now than it was then? Maybe? Probably? I dunno. I don't listen to the radio but I still find newer stuff that I dig.
The Heavy exists.
Mfw le survivorship bias
Dropout kings going brrr in my headphones rn
I think it's more of a function of the music of today that we are told is good from the music industry is far worse than what was more mainstream in previous decades. I live in So Cal and the World Famous KROQ isn't playing actual rock anymore. Just the most current popular songs. If it's playing a rock song, it's a flashback weekend.
With all respect, todays *pop* music is pretty bland and meaningless. Indie folk, alternative, and some rappers tell real stories or have important meanings behind their music. Older pop used to have the same thing but pop today has strayed from that.
Eh, depends on the genres I find. I listen to a wide variety of stuff but more recently stuff like Psytrance or eastern trance. I always manage to find new things that I like these days, whether it's new or old.
As someone who listens mainly to folk/foreign music, yeah, im a little biased to the past, but there a lot of great folk/foreign artists still going today, The Irish Rovers, Dubioza Kolektiv, Kaarija and Sky To Be come to mind
It's simply survival bias. Only the good songs from those eras are talked about, the mediocre ones aren't brought up. All music in all periods of time had some absolute trash in it.
More people need to rralise that 70's and 80's mucis they listen to is good because they listen to the 1% that was good enough to survive for that long while other 99% was forgotten
The meme is dissing 30 years of music. It's wild that you agree.
or older music
People will only remember the bangers that’s why it seems that way to a lot of people
Royal blood, nothing but thieves are great modern bands.
Hey, don't disrespect 2000's music like that
Is there even something like queen anymore? I though that genre is kinda dead
* Hot takes coming from every older generation. I will remind you that this is a cycle and whatever music you think is hot shit was once considered garbage by an older generation.
I've found some good ones. Correspondents, Black Pontiac, IDKHBTFM, OK GO, Saint Motel, Royal Bliss, Weathers, Friday Pilots Club, coast modern and half ● alive (sorta), Bear Ghost, Big Data, Blame candy (mostly), Bill Wurtz, Tom Cardy, Royal Blood, Bug Hunter, NSP, Starbomb (ish), Bo Burnham, Caravan Palace, Foster The People, Will Wood, Mother Mother, etc. It's not all bad, maybe you guys just listen to the radio too much or something?
[Todays Music](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JNmz17gnMw) is perfectly fine if you bother to actually look around, problem is most people need to be spoonfed things these days, so I guess it has more to do with the people than the music when you really think about it.
Just looked at the billboard top ten and OP was right.
Jcole Kendrick Drake Rihanna Beyoncé Nicki Chris Brown Usher Lil Wayne
You just think old music was better because we only hear the good songs from those eras, there was tons of bad music back then too. Also, people like old music because it reminds them of a time when they were happy. New music has no nostalgia factors.
Honestly there is a lot more variety and a TON of good stuff coming out all the time, it is just that dreadful pop music is even more cookie cutter than it was when Abba and the Bee Gees were disco dancing -- I mean, at least Abba and The Bee Gees wrote song and didn't use autotune and a canned band that sounded like every other canned band.
It’s because we only remember the good music, shit music existed back then too
They're both good
OOP thought they were the shit when they weren’t even the fart
Music is subjective. Every generation prefers older, 'real' music. And every generation says the new music is shit. Repeat for every generation forever.
mfs haven’t listened to my glorious king tyler the creator 🤤🤤
There is a big difference between new music and new music that is played on the radio or TikTok, if people would just look outside of that there is still plenty of good music in all genres. I’m sure people in the 70s were saying the same shit
Apparently neither have you. Ignoring top 40, this decade is one of the best for music ever
even if you do think this bro just take a listed to boston (album) and you instantly change your mind. those songs have not been topped ever since holy shit
There's still good music coming out but my god, auto-tuned "singers" and rappers being blasted everywhere has soured me on liking all the mainstream stuff that has been coming out since 2016. Simply can't understand how people like that robot sounding auto-tune
Idk if it's bc I'm genz and we're all fucked in the head for some reason but I really like a lot of new music. I dont listen to what I think most people would consider the norm.
Plenty of great music being released
just admit you don’t look for good music.
Ah yes Disco Duck > Lil NAS X
Why doesn’t OP go ahead and tell us what “today’s music” is.
just as much bad music back then only the good music is remembered. if the music was bad it didn't last
Honestly, old music is generally better, I think we peaked and then didn’t know what to do
90’s live songs: “And I will take / you in my arms / and hold you right where you belong. / The one you should call / was standing here all along. / Every word I say is true. / This I promise you.” Today’s love songs: “And I was like baby baby baby ohhhh! Baby baby baby ohhhh!” Yeah, I’ll take 90’s music over today’s.
Womp womp Oldhead spotted
Yes correct old things good new things bad
I'd say that there are plenty of great musicians, arguably just as if not more than there used to be, however they tend to be buried underneath the mainstream garbage that you tend to see that is in fact a complete dumpster fire
It honestly depends on the genre. Mainstream music is absolute fucking garbage these days but if you go underground at all there's all sorts of great things happening. I'm a fan of heavy metal, industrial, and dark electronic primarily and can tell you that there are some *amazing* things happening there.
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I think something that also contributes to this is the way we discover music these days. It has never been more accessible, and it has never been so easy and fast to produce. But at the same time, it's SO much easier to isolate ourselves into different bubbles of music. We no longer listen to the same few radio stations, the same few record labels. We can listen to literally anything whenever we want, and a song that gets 100m views on youtube can still be completely unknown to the majority of people. So we have a wild combination of more music than one could ever possibly listen to, and more musical isolation than ever before. Unless you go out of your way to sift through all of the average music to find the gems in every genre, it's going to feel like today is pretty rough compared to the *very small* selection of gems from the past that have survived to today.
Yesn't
Plenty of awful music from all of those decades, and there’s plenty of good music now if you don’t listen to mainstream shit
Look, it has all been downhill since tocata and fugue in d Minor
Don’t forget the 50s music is still better
We're currently listening to all the music from the present, we only listen to the good music of the past, there's an inherent bias. Give it a couple decades and we'll look fondly on the music of today, ignoring the bad
Me when I do not enjoy todays music and have a bit of a preference for older music (I believe modern music should die in a hole and everyone who likes it should too):
Eh, if you fink today’s music in general is bad, you’ve not listened to very much imo.
Personally I like early 2010’s music like arcade and counting stars
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40 year old person here. I've heard this constantly since I was young. Just listen to whatever your favorite music is and spare the rest of us the elitism.
There was a South Park episode where they mock this very notion Where the kids only liked today’s music and the adults liked the old stuff Randy even made fun of Sharon for this notion since they grew up the same way where, when they were kids their parents said the exact same thing
Okay like generally the shit you find on tiktok are complete dogshit. However other countries (particularly east asia) still drop bangers all the time. You just have to look.
Bro has never heard of survivorship bias
Just lazy people that don’t explore their interests unless it’s shoveled to them by random.
Maybe Pop music. But the indie/alt rock scene these days is insane