....is this a f***ing joke?

[TOMINATOR]

OMG! dis iz liek da best musik i eva herd itz sooo c00l d00d!!

 

[Georynn]

Back in the day, The Clash, The Ramones, et. al. were considered not to be great musicians, were going against the mainstream, and were meant to piss parents off and such. Music goes through these phases.

However, folks like the Clash, Ramones, and others actually had songs that ended up passing the test of time.

Many one-hit-wonders have had some some sort of musical value as people still like listening to those songs. Some say those folks hit on a fad that went away.

The stuff (read $#!t) these dudes are putting out, will never, ever pass any test of time for any kind of musicianship or production value. There is a big different between fad and crap and unfortunately teenage tastes really do seem to be unable to tell the difference based on the fact there's over 6m views of this.

Good marketing to a demographic, maybe, good music, hell no.

You say that, but there are some terrible things still lurking about, that I was convinced would "fade into obscurity" years ago... but, some idiots keep buying their albums... (look at their record sales... somebody bought a copy...)

 

[6jase5]

Throughout the course of my music listening history, I've enjoyed the lyrics to songs regardless of their genre as I can respect the story. From Zappa to Beatles, Slick Rick to Eminem, at least some effort was made.

Gruntcore with any random background music (noise) just has no relevance in the timeline of music to me.

 

[Tim Schnautz]

The most frustrating part, to me, though, is that they have millions of hits on youtube, compared to incredible musicians who will never receive any of the things they deserve, let alone a couple thousand hits on youtube.

one reason why so many hits, is because of threads like this that make people bang it just out of curiosity.

 

[michael_atw]

one reason why so many hits, is because of threads like this that make people bang it just out of curiosity.

Actually, the thread was dead for a month. Nice job rehashing it!

 

[Floridabwoy]

Rich kid's with MacBook Pro's.


/music

 

[SDMFJay]

THIS is EXACTLY why most people have no clue what good music is anymore. It's also why shows like 16 and pregnant have been made.

 

[Hot Rats]

Near the beginning of one summer in the mid 80's, a buddy of mine began wearing out a cassette tape title "Fear - More Beer" at the time it was the most awful thing my pretentious, progressive rock, blues purist, classic rock ears had ever heard. By Mid June, I was rocking that tape as hard as anyone and totally into it.

.

There's a cold one, down here in the bottom!

 

[Batmensch]

Nothing more than really bad pop music. Nothing new or unusual about that.

 

[TonyP-]

Get used to it, brother. We are on the downward spiral in a breathless race to reach the lowest common denominator.

I just try to block out the crap and search for actual musicians.

+1
Nothing more to add to that.