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Originally Posted by dino7c
Uh, all of these artists came out a decade or two ago...kinda proves my point no
I was responding to "moving the culture forward" or whatever...what artist is doing that? mumbling over 70s tracks is topping the charts.
And yes there is good music out there, like someone else said you have to dig deep to find it these days though, deeper than ever IMO.
There are a lot of young people that agree, if you go to concert of a big 80s band like half the crowd is under 35. People that want to hear real music played on instruments ect.
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I’m not sure it does prove your point. You seemed to be saying mainstream music today is terrible and that you’ve felt that way for 15 years or more, so I don’t see how mentioning some of the biggest acts of the last 15 years proves your point.
I guess there’s two different conversations. One is “where is our Aretha Franklin?” and to that we don’t know, because very few new Aretha was going to mean what she did to music right from the start, and the talent may not have changed but the conditions that make a star sure have.
The other is quality music in the mainstream. There’s a lot of it. You don’t have to dig very deep at all. It may not be to your taste, and that’s fine, but that’s just taste for you. Rolling Stone absolutely trashed the first Led Zeppelin album when it came out, and look at how that turned out. Even Souncloud rap (mumble rap) which you keep mentioning as being what’s popular today peaked half a decade ago and is really not representative of what’s popular right now. There’s also countless popular bands playing real instruments.
I don’t know what else to tell you. I think you’re kind of out of touch on the topic, but I respect where you’re coming from.