Seriously. I didn't get it either at first, and then I listened to their discography. They're a sensational band. Every member of the band was an excellent musician. All of the modern music scene is influenced by them.
Yea I tried and I just can't do it. To each their own.
I mean, fair enough. It is a matter of taste. Goodness knows I can't understand why people listen to Imagine Dragons.
I will say that whether or not you like The Beatles, you should at least acknowledge that they are the most influential band ever, and just how much they accomplished as musicians.
Also, I would strongly encourage you to try listening to them again. Do recognize that each album sounds different than the one before it, particularly with Rubber Soul which is my favorite of their albums and sounds profoundly different from what came before, and their music continued to change and shift after that.
Nothing kills the Metal. Metal cannot die, whatever your opinion is on it there will always be metal heads and the bands they support.
The problem is that if we end up with just Metal and Pop and lose the scale that is in between.
A lot of this is to an extent of "back in my day" and nostalga for the bands we liked when we were younger. where we are just arguing over what true rock music is and what is rock and is what is pop.
The music industry goes in cycles. each group of young people tear down the old cool and rebuild the new cool. That happens because the music industry tends to oversaturate a market with bad bands and people tire of it and look for new sounds. What we have at the moment is the "Emo" hangover and rock music is out of favour, specifically emotionally based rock music.
I have seen a band like Fall Out Boy go from 2000s Pop Punk through the Emo wave (they were "Scene" whatever) to this sort of post emo pop rock taking rap and hip hop elements (which I don't always like). I like to think I am slightly too old to be an emo, my favourite time in music is just before it became the thing. Also note Good Charlotte seem to change with whatever the new fashion is, they have a lot of synth electronica these days.
Haha I am still so far behind music, whatever put on your favourite music and be officially old part of being a geek is your just don't care what the fashion is. *Plays some "yellowcard"*
Basically what I am saying is that maybe this generation doesn't care for rock music but it will be rediscovered again when the music industry saturates the market with awful electronica (I can't tell the different honestly its all noise to me). Also the anti rock attitude is much strong in the USA than elsewhere. The English have bands like The artic monkies and the wombats (whats it with the English and thier animal band names?). I know that psych rock is a real thing here (since my brother plays in a band) but that might only be amongst hipsters. However we have had all our music rock festivals cancelled but the Electronic ones are still going living in the literal middle of nowhere when it comes to tours makes it hard to see bands, but at least our bars/nightclubs are local band friendly
It just struck me in general. I am currently 16 years old and people my age (and a bit older) seem to listen mostly to pop, rap, and various electronic genres. I do like electronic music, but I think rock music carries a load more emotion. Also, it makes you want to buy a convertible car and sunglasses. The 2000´s still had some great rock, but the popular rock bands among our age group seem to be older bands like Pink Floyd and The Beatles. I listen to rock mostly because I always hang out with people in their 20´s and they show me their songs. I also noticed that there are almost no rock concerts in my country (from local bands that use our language) in my country anymore, as opposed to around 10 years ago.
The only thing I hate about rock is that it makes me want to be born a little earlier (around the 1990´s).
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Lol misguided/naive opinion thread?
Music today is incredibly diverse and becoming increasingly harder to throw into a single genre. You can strawman saying X current pop song is worse than some famous dad-rock album, but it is 2014, and the modes and production of music have changed. Electronic modes of producing music isn't "fake" music but the industry standard. You have synthesizers and plugins that sound nearly identical to guitar or piano or what instrument have you. Even many of the most accomplished rock artists these days (e.g. Radiohead) use a variety of electronic or hip-hop influence, which, like rock and roll itself, have influences from jazz, blues and ragtime, and later funk, disco, etc.
Frankly it's laughable that people have one-track minds were they dismiss entire "genres" because they think one is superior. Please explain how rock carries more emotion than every other genre? An example of a common theme in many rap albums is discussing racism or growing up in a less-than-ideal environment, please explain how this is less emotional? Same goes for "various electronic genres" -- have you heard ambient or dream-pop?
Basically you're going through a stage in adolescence where you're pre-hipster, thinking that "pop music sucks", "rap is crap" and "dad rock rules", next you're gonna think "dad rock is okay" and "indie music rules". Eventually you'll come to realize "I should listen to whatever I enjoy regardless of simple categorizations"
Basically you're going through a stage in adolescence where you're pre-hipster, thinking that "pop music sucks", "rap is crap" and "dad rock rules", next you're gonna think "dad rock is okay" and "indie music rules". Eventually you'll come to realize "I should listen to whatever I enjoy regardless of simple categorizations"
Really? Which stage in adolescence do you realize that a "holier-than-thou" attitude is not actually impressive to anyone?
The irony is this guy decides he really likes rock music more than the stuff he's been hearing, and your response is, "No, you're dumb, you should just listen to whatever you like regardless of characterizations." Do you see the problem?
Also, you're really going to talk about dismissing genres being a mark of adolescence after using the term "dad rock"?
It is hard to believe that rock is dead when Fun. was the biggest band of 2012 and Imagine Dragons is one of the biggest ones right now.
I couldn't get myself into Fun. although Imagine Dragons are alright, Paramore's "Ain't It Fun" and Olly Murs' "Dance With Me Tonight" gives me faith that Rock N' Roll is still somewhat alive even though it's hanging by a thread.
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As others have said, rock certainly isn't dead, it's just changed forms. 3 Rock Bands I really like right now are The Arctic Monkeys, The Black Keys and The Kills (NOT the Killers, I haven't really listened to The Killers), and none of these bands are totally obscure either!
I just really wish that Paramore was still rock instead of pop.
*shrug* Now they just sound like Tragic Kingdom-era No Doubt, so I can't really complain.
Thankfully, most of the bands I listened to ~20 years ago are still kicking it around in some form or another, so I will just lean on that crutch for as long as I can. I may not be able to get into this generation's version of alternative music, but as others mentioned, there are still plenty of decent, newer mainstream hard rock bands getting heavy airplay (Seether, Shinedown, Chevelle, Avenged Sevenfold, Stone Sour, Tantric, Volbeat, etc).
Although, as I typed that list, I realized those bands have all been around for over 10-15 years now...man, time flies.
Yes. But by inches, and slowly.
Let me explain to anyone who might argue > I've been playing in bands for over 15 years, currently play in a cover band (for cash) and an original desert/stoner rock band, but I've played in various bands in the past. I've played in almost every venue in my city over the years, done tours, festivals etc.
Lets keep this relevant > we should be talking about current Rock, not the dead musicians that grey-hairs will listen to until the day they die.
This argument needs to stay in the present day.
Rock is nowhere as popular as it used to be in the younger generation, and I would also argue that peoples' behaviour has changed over the last decade or more.
Going out to see a random band at your local pub is no longer something people just do.
Also, IME the amount of venues that will host original loud rock bands has dropped dramatically, many becoming yuppie-filled pretentious holes with cover-bands being the only bands they let in the door, (provided they play on acoustics only), or have changed tack and gone for a different demographic like R&B etc..
Of the venues remaining, they put the onus on the band to get numbers through the door or you'll likely fail to get a gig there again.
Very different from 15 years ago I can tell ya!
When I started doing the band thing, packing out pubs was easy, people just came out because it was something people did.
Seems to me that's changed. Most people aren't interested in going out just to see a local band anymore.
I would also argue that music tastes are far more diverse these days.
Things tend to travel in cycles... ride it out, rock will be back, but I fear the days of loud balls-out rock being mainstream have just about passed, if not already.
It'll always be there though, no different to metal.
Music styles come and go. Disco was really popular in the 70's which was pretty much electronica 1.0 except with guitars. Seems people liked to dance and get wasted even back then. Then came punk with alot of emotion mostly snotty and angry good therapy for some. Then came 80's Metal while great music it became overly played and started to sound all the same. Then came the 90's grunge sound which was punk 2.0 with a more complex sound and downer emotion. After the 90s came and went rock music became hybernized with rap with bands like Limp Bizkit which gave rock a feel good mood again and then electronica with bands like Linkin Park now there's no rock left, only rap and electronica. ..PS Country music is becoming pop too just listen to Taylor Swifts later albums.
It's been a bit since anyone has posted here so here's my stance.
For those that don't know, I'm a musician--a guitarist for over 10 years. I went to school for music, I toured in Europe with my college's chorus, I've gigged with Professional musicians like Doc Sevrinsen (from Johnny Carson's band), I play Chapman Stick, I've written many reports on music and given lectures on the state of music in the 20th century....I know my *****.
What's going on in the music industry and popular musical tastes right now is appalling. The mainstream artists of today are simply making a mockery of hundreds of years of evolution within the world of music. When unlikable blow hards like Bieber, Cyrus, Lorde, and those douchebags from Fun. can basically take a piece of crap and have it sell millions of copies in days, it doesn't say anything about their talent.
I don't care that Bieber can play multiple instruments. I do. And I know like hundreds of other musicians who do. I don't care that Gaga went to Juliard or is all giddy about performance art or whatever. I don't care that Lorde is 16 or whatever and can rap. Big deal. We are making celebrities of people who, quite frankly, already had it better than the rest of us.
But you can't blame them. The senseless sheep that are the mass population of the world are to blame because they're the ones buying this dreck. Who know what it is? This kind of music requires no thought to enjoy; it does nothing and doesn't do anything interesting to provoke thought and thinking. People don't want to think anymore. Everyone is so caught up with mindless bull***** that they have the attention span of a goldfish. You honestly can't tell me that a typical teenager that listens to this music has the mental space and the independent thought to actually sit down and listen to "Stairway" or understand the Blues or an entire 15 plus minute Yes song or, god forbid, a symphony?
I am reminded of the fall of progressive and psychedelic rock in the 1970s. People stopped thinking about music, people stopped thinking about one of the greatest forms of art that humans have created and have started thinking about how cute Kim Kardashian looked while she got married to another ego centric musical hack. Basically, they're taking a page from a coloring book and putting it next to the works of Picasso, Michelangelo, Monet, and the like and saying that it's on par with it all.
And what an amazing metaphor Kim and Kanye are: the pinnacle of stupidity walking hand in hand with everything that's wrong with music today.
I'm sorry for the rage, but seeing something I work on and study and love and have a deep connection with get squashed and desecrated by these ******* jack offs pisses me off so much.
I think the problem with rock is that very often the music is too good. If there is one thing that psy two billion views youtube video can teach you is vulgarity sells. Sexy and you know it half a billion views. Call me maybe 400 million views.
Beatles is good music. Even with those terrible guitars they still made good music.
It's been a bit since anyone has posted here so here's my stance.
For those that don't know, I'm a musician--a guitarist for over 10 years. I went to school for music, I toured in Europe with my college's chorus, I've gigged with Professional musicians like Doc Sevrinsen (from Johnny Carson's band), I play Chapman Stick, I've written many reports on music and given lectures on the state of music in the 20th century....I know my *****.
What's going on in the music industry and popular musical tastes right now is appalling. The mainstream artists of today are simply making a mockery of hundreds of years of evolution within the world of music. When unlikable blow hards like Bieber, Cyrus, Lorde, and those douchebags from Fun. can basically take a piece of crap and have it sell millions of copies in days, it doesn't say anything about their talent.
I don't care that Bieber can play multiple instruments. I do. And I know like hundreds of other musicians who do. I don't care that Gaga went to Juliard or is all giddy about performance art or whatever. I don't care that Lorde is 16 or whatever and can rap. Big deal. We are making celebrities of people who, quite frankly, already had it better than the rest of us.
But you can't blame them. The senseless sheep that are the mass population of the world are to blame because they're the ones buying this dreck. Who know what it is? This kind of music requires no thought to enjoy; it does nothing and doesn't do anything interesting to provoke thought and thinking. People don't want to think anymore. Everyone is so caught up with mindless bull***** that they have the attention span of a goldfish. You honestly can't tell me that a typical teenager that listens to this music has the mental space and the independent thought to actually sit down and listen to "Stairway" or understand the Blues or an entire 15 plus minute Yes song or, god forbid, a symphony?
I am reminded of the fall of progressive and psychedelic rock in the 1970s. People stopped thinking about music, people stopped thinking about one of the greatest forms of art that humans have created and have started thinking about how cute Kim Kardashian looked while she got married to another ego centric musical hack. Basically, they're taking a page from a coloring book and putting it next to the works of Picasso, Michelangelo, Monet, and the like and saying that it's on par with it all.
And what an amazing metaphor Kim and Kanye are: the pinnacle of stupidity walking hand in hand with everything that's wrong with music today.
I'm sorry for the rage, but seeing something I work on and study and love and have a deep connection with get squashed and desecrated by these ******* jack offs pisses me off so much.
While I agree with most of this, I personally would say that fun. isn't bad.
fun. represents a false claim in the music industry that we are seeing now too often.
They're not a rock band. They are some kinda odd mix of styles. Too be honest, I can't stand fun. If you want a good laugh, watch their singer butcher "Somebody to Love" backed by Queen itself mind you, at this past iHeartRadio festival.
I think the problem with rock is that very often the music is too good. If there is one thing that psy two billion views youtube video can teach you is vulgarity sells. Sexy and you know it half a billion views. Call me maybe 400 million views.
Beatles is good music. Even with those terrible guitars they still made good music.
PSY was different though. He successful in South Korea way before Gangnam Style became a thing on YouTube. I honestly think that the whole reason why it exploded wasn't because of the vulgarity of the video or the lyrics (once translated). The whole experience of watching a chubby Korean guy bounce around singing in some language that no one understood, coupled with exploding boats, dudes in blue sequenced tuxes, and dudes air humping in ten gallon hats was too much for some to take in on the first watch. I'll admit, I had "Gangnam Style" fever when it was at its peak.
"Call Me Maybe" was so simple and had such ridiculous lyrics that it was the aural equivalent of a train wreck--it's so horrifying that you had to stop and watch. Plus, and I'm also incorporating Gangnam Style here, both songs employ the "ear worm" tactic. Which is to say that the songs hooks and melodies are composed in such a way, intentional or not, that the listener's brain is drawn to it and it sticks with them for a while--hence getting it stuck in your head. "Call Me Maybe" was so infectious that people just had to listen to it.
Plus, the video has all kinds dudes that the girl's just had to oogle at as well as the human version of Mudkip. So there's that too...
I digress...Sexuality and music have been going along with each other for some time now. Even rock songs did it. But I guess you can say that they were smartly written with regards to their compromising subject matter. AC/DC did it a bit more explictly, but nothing as plainly obvious as some of these acts have been on stage or what ever. Miley Cyrus outstanding. And it's sad too. I guess if you make yourself a sex icon, who cares how bad your music is? If your tits and ass make your records sell, why make good music?
As soon as rock changes back into this ideology, which considering how PC every thing is now a days AND how much more explicit sexual content is in music now, rock should take over again. People will pretty much be up in arms about it so much more now...even more so than it was in the 1980s with the whole Tipper Gore nonsense.
I mean, look how infatuated people were with rap music when it did basically the same thing in the early 2000s. Remember that? Every radio station was playing some form of "gangsta" rap and even the whitest of white boys thought the were from da hood. I really put the paradigm shift from rap based pop music to...the hodgepodge that it is now on Lady Gaga. But she's pretty much collapsing over her own personality it's actually fun to watch. Her latest album failed to meet expectations...so she gets a performance artist known for vomit art and has her vomit on her mid performance. Talk about a good musician using that Juiliard education that her parent's paid for.
When the personality of the musician is bigger than the music, there's something wrong with the music.
Yeah but it makes sense that rock would have to change. The things that it was protesting and rebelling against in the old days are not issues anymore. Maybe rock just needs something or someone to be angry at again. Lets hope the next republican president can facilitate such an angry bunch of rockers. George W sure got them mad.
After a while, I'm not so big into the "genres" but more what I feel "sounds good." I listen to even Gregorian Chants to some obscure foreign stuff to Japanese Pop. I think you have to look at the time spans to really be a good connoisseur of anything.
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One of the beauties of music is that it's always evolving; genres borrow from one another, blend styles and sounds, and no one knows what awesome sound is going to come out of it all. We're all in a grand experiment of musical expression. This is, in my opinion, the best time to be alive for music. There are no limits; genre lines are becoming blurred to the point where "genre" is almost a meaningless distinction. I listen to music that is one part rock, one part snythpop, one part electronica, one part freak folk, one part whatever. It all blends together. As I tell my students (I teach classes on rock n roll history), the history of popular music since the 40s is a strawberry banana milkshake. Strawberries are delicious. Bananas are delicious. Milk is good, too. But when you put them all in the blender and press blend, the milkshake you get is amazing. Everything's in there, augmenting every other taste. That's what music does, and that's why rock will never die. Even hipsters who only listen to post-rock still have to, by the name of the genre itself, reference rock.
God tired of rock, metal, etc. Post Rock is about the only rock-related (sub)genre that I listen to these days.
Not that it matters all that much.
Rock will always be around. I mean, people still listen to Led Zep, Hendrix, Pink Floyd... etc. It's still a staple. There's always people that will push the envelope with creating something new or new-ish. While others create something horrible and somehow people end up liking it. Who knows.
Yea I tried and I just can't do it. To each their own.
I will say that whether or not you like The Beatles, you should at least acknowledge that they are the most influential band ever, and just how much they accomplished as musicians.
Also, I would strongly encourage you to try listening to them again. Do recognize that each album sounds different than the one before it, particularly with Rubber Soul which is my favorite of their albums and sounds profoundly different from what came before, and their music continued to change and shift after that.
The problem is that if we end up with just Metal and Pop and lose the scale that is in between.
A lot of this is to an extent of "back in my day" and nostalga for the bands we liked when we were younger. where we are just arguing over what true rock music is and what is rock and is what is pop.
The music industry goes in cycles. each group of young people tear down the old cool and rebuild the new cool. That happens because the music industry tends to oversaturate a market with bad bands and people tire of it and look for new sounds. What we have at the moment is the "Emo" hangover and rock music is out of favour, specifically emotionally based rock music.
I have seen a band like Fall Out Boy go from 2000s Pop Punk through the Emo wave (they were "Scene" whatever) to this sort of post emo pop rock taking rap and hip hop elements (which I don't always like). I like to think I am slightly too old to be an emo, my favourite time in music is just before it became the thing. Also note Good Charlotte seem to change with whatever the new fashion is, they have a lot of synth electronica these days.
Haha I am still so far behind music, whatever put on your favourite music and be officially old part of being a geek is your just don't care what the fashion is. *Plays some "yellowcard"*
Basically what I am saying is that maybe this generation doesn't care for rock music but it will be rediscovered again when the music industry saturates the market with awful electronica (I can't tell the different honestly its all noise to me). Also the anti rock attitude is much strong in the USA than elsewhere. The English have bands like The artic monkies and the wombats (whats it with the English and thier animal band names?). I know that psych rock is a real thing here (since my brother plays in a band) but that might only be amongst hipsters. However we have had all our music rock festivals cancelled but the Electronic ones are still going living in the literal middle of nowhere when it comes to tours makes it hard to see bands, but at least our bars/nightclubs are local band friendly
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Lol misguided/naive opinion thread?
Music today is incredibly diverse and becoming increasingly harder to throw into a single genre. You can strawman saying X current pop song is worse than some famous dad-rock album, but it is 2014, and the modes and production of music have changed. Electronic modes of producing music isn't "fake" music but the industry standard. You have synthesizers and plugins that sound nearly identical to guitar or piano or what instrument have you. Even many of the most accomplished rock artists these days (e.g. Radiohead) use a variety of electronic or hip-hop influence, which, like rock and roll itself, have influences from jazz, blues and ragtime, and later funk, disco, etc.
Frankly it's laughable that people have one-track minds were they dismiss entire "genres" because they think one is superior. Please explain how rock carries more emotion than every other genre? An example of a common theme in many rap albums is discussing racism or growing up in a less-than-ideal environment, please explain how this is less emotional? Same goes for "various electronic genres" -- have you heard ambient or dream-pop?
Basically you're going through a stage in adolescence where you're pre-hipster, thinking that "pop music sucks", "rap is crap" and "dad rock rules", next you're gonna think "dad rock is okay" and "indie music rules". Eventually you'll come to realize "I should listen to whatever I enjoy regardless of simple categorizations"
The irony is this guy decides he really likes rock music more than the stuff he's been hearing, and your response is, "No, you're dumb, you should just listen to whatever you like regardless of characterizations." Do you see the problem?
Also, you're really going to talk about dismissing genres being a mark of adolescence after using the term "dad rock"?
Well Pharrell Williams is technically Pop than Rock (according to iTunes), so it'd be hard to mix the two music genres.
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Storm Crow is strictly worse than Seacoast Drake.
*shrug* Now they just sound like Tragic Kingdom-era No Doubt, so I can't really complain.
Thankfully, most of the bands I listened to ~20 years ago are still kicking it around in some form or another, so I will just lean on that crutch for as long as I can. I may not be able to get into this generation's version of alternative music, but as others mentioned, there are still plenty of decent, newer mainstream hard rock bands getting heavy airplay (Seether, Shinedown, Chevelle, Avenged Sevenfold, Stone Sour, Tantric, Volbeat, etc).
Although, as I typed that list, I realized those bands have all been around for over 10-15 years now...man, time flies.
Yes. But by inches, and slowly.
Let me explain to anyone who might argue > I've been playing in bands for over 15 years, currently play in a cover band (for cash) and an original desert/stoner rock band, but I've played in various bands in the past. I've played in almost every venue in my city over the years, done tours, festivals etc.
Lets keep this relevant > we should be talking about current Rock, not the dead musicians that grey-hairs will listen to until the day they die.
This argument needs to stay in the present day.
Rock is nowhere as popular as it used to be in the younger generation, and I would also argue that peoples' behaviour has changed over the last decade or more.
Going out to see a random band at your local pub is no longer something people just do.
Also, IME the amount of venues that will host original loud rock bands has dropped dramatically, many becoming yuppie-filled pretentious holes with cover-bands being the only bands they let in the door, (provided they play on acoustics only), or have changed tack and gone for a different demographic like R&B etc..
Of the venues remaining, they put the onus on the band to get numbers through the door or you'll likely fail to get a gig there again.
Very different from 15 years ago I can tell ya!
When I started doing the band thing, packing out pubs was easy, people just came out because it was something people did.
Seems to me that's changed. Most people aren't interested in going out just to see a local band anymore.
I would also argue that music tastes are far more diverse these days.
Things tend to travel in cycles... ride it out, rock will be back, but I fear the days of loud balls-out rock being mainstream have just about passed, if not already.
It'll always be there though, no different to metal.
For those that don't know, I'm a musician--a guitarist for over 10 years. I went to school for music, I toured in Europe with my college's chorus, I've gigged with Professional musicians like Doc Sevrinsen (from Johnny Carson's band), I play Chapman Stick, I've written many reports on music and given lectures on the state of music in the 20th century....I know my *****.
What's going on in the music industry and popular musical tastes right now is appalling. The mainstream artists of today are simply making a mockery of hundreds of years of evolution within the world of music. When unlikable blow hards like Bieber, Cyrus, Lorde, and those douchebags from Fun. can basically take a piece of crap and have it sell millions of copies in days, it doesn't say anything about their talent.
I don't care that Bieber can play multiple instruments. I do. And I know like hundreds of other musicians who do. I don't care that Gaga went to Juliard or is all giddy about performance art or whatever. I don't care that Lorde is 16 or whatever and can rap. Big deal. We are making celebrities of people who, quite frankly, already had it better than the rest of us.
But you can't blame them. The senseless sheep that are the mass population of the world are to blame because they're the ones buying this dreck. Who know what it is? This kind of music requires no thought to enjoy; it does nothing and doesn't do anything interesting to provoke thought and thinking. People don't want to think anymore. Everyone is so caught up with mindless bull***** that they have the attention span of a goldfish. You honestly can't tell me that a typical teenager that listens to this music has the mental space and the independent thought to actually sit down and listen to "Stairway" or understand the Blues or an entire 15 plus minute Yes song or, god forbid, a symphony?
I am reminded of the fall of progressive and psychedelic rock in the 1970s. People stopped thinking about music, people stopped thinking about one of the greatest forms of art that humans have created and have started thinking about how cute Kim Kardashian looked while she got married to another ego centric musical hack. Basically, they're taking a page from a coloring book and putting it next to the works of Picasso, Michelangelo, Monet, and the like and saying that it's on par with it all.
And what an amazing metaphor Kim and Kanye are: the pinnacle of stupidity walking hand in hand with everything that's wrong with music today.
I'm sorry for the rage, but seeing something I work on and study and love and have a deep connection with get squashed and desecrated by these ******* jack offs pisses me off so much.
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Beatles is good music. Even with those terrible guitars they still made good music.
While I agree with most of this, I personally would say that fun. isn't bad.
Storm Crow is strictly worse than Seacoast Drake.
They're not a rock band. They are some kinda odd mix of styles. Too be honest, I can't stand fun. If you want a good laugh, watch their singer butcher "Somebody to Love" backed by Queen itself mind you, at this past iHeartRadio festival.
PSY was different though. He successful in South Korea way before Gangnam Style became a thing on YouTube. I honestly think that the whole reason why it exploded wasn't because of the vulgarity of the video or the lyrics (once translated). The whole experience of watching a chubby Korean guy bounce around singing in some language that no one understood, coupled with exploding boats, dudes in blue sequenced tuxes, and dudes air humping in ten gallon hats was too much for some to take in on the first watch. I'll admit, I had "Gangnam Style" fever when it was at its peak.
"Call Me Maybe" was so simple and had such ridiculous lyrics that it was the aural equivalent of a train wreck--it's so horrifying that you had to stop and watch. Plus, and I'm also incorporating Gangnam Style here, both songs employ the "ear worm" tactic. Which is to say that the songs hooks and melodies are composed in such a way, intentional or not, that the listener's brain is drawn to it and it sticks with them for a while--hence getting it stuck in your head. "Call Me Maybe" was so infectious that people just had to listen to it.
Plus, the video has all kinds dudes that the girl's just had to oogle at as well as the human version of Mudkip. So there's that too...
I digress...Sexuality and music have been going along with each other for some time now. Even rock songs did it. But I guess you can say that they were smartly written with regards to their compromising subject matter. AC/DC did it a bit more explictly, but nothing as plainly obvious as some of these acts have been on stage or what ever. Miley Cyrus outstanding. And it's sad too. I guess if you make yourself a sex icon, who cares how bad your music is? If your tits and ass make your records sell, why make good music?
"There are no two words in the English language more harmful than 'good job'." -Terrance Fletcher, Whiplash (2014)
Basically. Even the Beatles were sex symbols, they were the first Boy Band, essentially.
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I mean, look how infatuated people were with rap music when it did basically the same thing in the early 2000s. Remember that? Every radio station was playing some form of "gangsta" rap and even the whitest of white boys thought the were from da hood. I really put the paradigm shift from rap based pop music to...the hodgepodge that it is now on Lady Gaga. But she's pretty much collapsing over her own personality it's actually fun to watch. Her latest album failed to meet expectations...so she gets a performance artist known for vomit art and has her vomit on her mid performance. Talk about a good musician using that Juiliard education that her parent's paid for.
When the personality of the musician is bigger than the music, there's something wrong with the music.
"There are no two words in the English language more harmful than 'good job'." -Terrance Fletcher, Whiplash (2014)
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God tired of rock, metal, etc. Post Rock is about the only rock-related (sub)genre that I listen to these days.
Not that it matters all that much.
Rock will always be around. I mean, people still listen to Led Zep, Hendrix, Pink Floyd... etc. It's still a staple. There's always people that will push the envelope with creating something new or new-ish. While others create something horrible and somehow people end up liking it. Who knows.