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Nothing makes me feel older than listening to modern pop music.

posted 14 days ago by Zarkoff (2137)
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I start to sound like one of the oldsters in one of those movies about the early days of rock music. "What is this noise?"

I just got done listening to this Post Malone song. Mrmmama ammama mumble murmer while a programmed beat plays in the background. I guess having a "dope beat" as the kids say is one of the things that make a tune. I wonder if the art of actually being able to play an instrument is going to die out. Why bother when you can have a computer do it?

Damned kids. Get off my lawn and so on.

[–] CaptBeefBlower (334) 14 days ago

It makes me feel nothing and I can't even describe it because it's so bland and featureless. I would rather say that I hate it, because then I would know that I'm reacting against something rather than nothing. It's homogenised, team-written, trend-inspired, musically shallow, unoriginal crap.

Sonetimes I think it's just me getting old and curmudgeonly, but I have plenty of nieces and nephews and they're all listening to music from the 60s-90s. It's a bleak age for music, film, literature and (to a lesser extent) TV.

[–] Zarkoff (2137) 14 days ago

Yeah. I watched a video of a collection of clips from a year in the 70s, and there were so many different sounds.

Bowie. McCartney. Sly and the Family Stone. The Stones. Early Micheal Jackson. Marvin Gaye. Fleetwood Mac. on and on.

Bland and featureless is a good way to put it. One tune just blends in with the other, creating this bleak, electronic soundscape.

[–] fourlemons (2843) 14 days ago

In a world overtaken by apathy, music has become a streamlined commercial product rather than a work of art.

[–] chilidoggg (14430) 13 days ago

The Byrds "So You Want To Be A Rock N Roll Star"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJlvtfLfdu0

The more things change the more they stay the same...

[–] ColumboKate (5731) 11 days ago

Ha! Same. I've turned into my parents 💩

I was a huge raver in the 90s/00s and still love the music. But now, there's a few DJs who are arranging the music for orchestras to play and it sounds amazing 👏 .
Same music, but more grown up.

[–] OnanTheBarbarian (12577) 11 days ago

It's not so much the style I dislike. But I've rarely heard a new song in the past 15 years which stands out and is worth listening to.

[–] jacotodd47 (2189) 10 days ago

Maybe so.

My parents thought my 1980s hair metal music was ridiculous (they were right).

Their parents thought 60s rock n roll was ridiculous.

And indeed , from about the mid 2000s on, current music is ridiculous (to me).

And so on and so forth.

The one decade I find just about everyone agrees on is the 1970s. It seems like every generation can find something out of the 1970s they enjoy.

[–] fourlemons (2843) 10 days ago

"The one decade I find just about everyone agrees on is the 1970s. It seems like every generation can find something out of the 1970s they enjoy."

Amen brother.

[–] jacotodd47 (2189) 10 days ago

Indeed.

You and I are definitely on the same page with music.

And thanks for the keychain compliment.

[–] db20db (17411) 10 days ago

Oh yeah! I was a wild, carefree drummer in a rock band during the 70s, totally immersed in that music.

[–] db20db (17411) 10 days ago

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[–] diezman (2194) 10 days ago

Hearing 90s songs on the oldies station makes me feel old. I have to remind myself that it was 30 years ago☹️

[–] maixiu (2491) 9 days ago

I went to Lollapalooza '92. It had been a little less than a year since the grunge-alternative revolution broke and everything seemed so new. That afternoon, when Pearl Jam began to play "Alive", it felt like a true moment. It must have been what those dirty hippies felt at Yasgur's farm. For a brief shining moment the world belonged to Gen-X.

And now more than 30 years have passed. Where did they go?