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The direction music is headed?

#61
ShredderMaximus said:
know people always say that the music industry's always been crap, but come on, look a Led Zeppelin, Blue Oyster Cult, Black Sabbath, Van Halen, Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Tool, I may not be a fan of some of these bands, but I think they have all been considered fairly mainstream, but they built their careers on being different. I dare anyone to name a band that came out in the past 10 years that has come close to touching any one of these bands. Double dog dare ya.
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My wife thinks that the 80's was the last truly innovative period in popular music. I'm inclined to agree with her.

I think the delivery medium continues to turn the industry on it's head, though. Used to be "quality control" was left to the record companies. Like that or not, they were at least looking at skill/talent as part of the equation. With today's $0.99-cent-(or free-)per-download mentality, any tom, dick, or harriet can put their wares out there and go viral. Without decent music education, though, how people judge what's "good" or not is largely left to the same sorts of criteria from which a kid gets elected to class president...

</soapbox>

This is depressing, I think I'll go listen to some Rush, or Beethoven, or something. ;)
 
#67
Waterpilot said:
A quick snipit of the lyrics...

"Yesterday was Thursday
Today is Friday
We We We so excited
We so excited
We gonna have a ball today
Tomorrow is Saturday
And Sunday comes afterwords..."

I hope the next single deals with the complexity of months of the year.
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I lolled.



I listened to Lamb Of God's song 'Reclamation' after listening to this crud. He sings about how humanity has destroyed the planet and one day Earth will reclaim what once was via destruction; the materialistic values of humans paling into insignificance while our cities burn.

Then I listen to this. Apparently it's Friday. What's that?!?! Tomorrow is Saturday?!?! Well isn't that grand.

It's times like these I thank christ I listen to metal. A lot of my friends listen to only this top 20 pop rubbish. I literally cannot say enough bad things about modern pop. However, when people say stuff like 'The music industry is dead' etc I do believe they are basing these statements from pop music. Metal is at a high a quality as ever, and I'm sure that fact applies to many other genres.
 
#68
Q: What direction is music headed?

A: Into the crapper.


Live music is losing popularity quickly among the club age generation. My buddy in LA has had a successful cover band for years and years. It has gotten so bad he had to join a freakin' Bon Jovi tribute band to make ends meet.
 
#69
hrodbert696 said:
Yeah, music is definitely going downhill... why, back in my day we had innovative musical geniuses like this...

YouTube - Milli Vanilli- Girl, I'm gonna Miss You

and this...
YouTube - Animotion - Obsession
(I actually loved this song)

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and THIS....

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LOL... +1 on the sarcasm.. Seems to me, there's always been both bubblegum and tasty steak in music.. skewed toward bubblegum the more popular you get.. I for one am thankful for the increase in diversity that is out there now..

Check out some Michael Franti, Ozomatli, Ojos de Brujo, Trombone Shorty, Shakira (pre-big breakout in the US)
 
#73
A pop song about waitin' for the weekend aimed at teenagers. That must be a first.

Obviously Miss Black is way short on tattoos and piercings. I didn't even see her grab her crotch one time. Was anyone drinking a beer or smoking a cigarette? Didn't see her slap a teacher or finger a cop.

What is music coming to?

Personally I"ll just stick to my old dog died today, Momma just got out of prison, whorehouses in Texas, calls for revolution, slappin' women, repoed cars, can't make the rent payment, pole dancing and all the rest that make up a REAL song.

I do agree with the OP, the song stinks.
 
#74
Is that music? I compare music to the most creative time 60-80 after that it has gone down hill and keeps sliding some bands and performers are good maybe even great but, they are not the ones getting the breaks they deserve. The as was mention kidding pop image sales not the music not the lyrics not the guitar work. Example if Billy Sheehan and Steven Vai played on a Bieber song you think anyone would say wow that was killer music nope just talk about Bieber's new haircut. Music Direction? it has screeched to a halt! But it will turn around Perfect way to figure this out is just look what the Teens are listening to today CLASSIC ROCK MUSIC on itunes, on their video games (Rock Band, Guitar Hero) you know why because they are smart enough to know the stuff that is out there today isn't good and they will in time go back to that music.But we will have to wait for the powers that be that sign the Biebers, and Blacks to come to their senses
 
#78
I think there are three things that are going to happen.
Firstly, we must distinguish the difference between "hump" music, and live music.
Granted any artist can have a moment of clarity or purity, but i mean look at the grammy's 90% of what you see I don't think qualifies as music. and let the masses have it, and let them have the money, cuz they won't be making it off records for long.

With the exponential increase in technology (size vs. space) that has been so obvious in the last 50 years, I don't believe you'll be able to sell recorded music 20 years from now.
once the "majority" of people understand that there is more music on their thumbdrive than they have minutes to breath on this planet, we're going to have to undergo some sort of paradigm shift.
The fact that you listen to a record more than once, means so much more than 5 or 10 dollars.
the music produced will be free, and then people know about what's going on by what they search for, see live, or friends turn them on to.
Live music is the only viable avenue for income I believe.

another thing I think we may see (and in the jam community i'd argue have been seeing) is the dissolution of "bands" or "groups" as a driving force, and more focus on actually the musicians themselves, joining up in different groupings to create a more memorable experience for the audience. "do you remember when X sat in with Y, that s*** was incredible!!"

just a few ideas, I don't claim them as law, have at em lol
 
#79
In all honesty I agree with the statement "change is inevitable" and sometimes good, however I have to say in my opinion most of today's music coming out is just horrible. Perhaps I am just still a fan of the music I listened to when I grew up (80's/90's). Basically from what I have been hearing the last couple years this whole oversaturation of pop music today just sucks. It seems that many bands/artists are afraid of taking that leap of faith and trying to be something away from the norm, instead they ride on the coat tails of each other because that is what is currently hot. Genius marketing and business plan yes, however I can say a lot of the music just sounds the same, the bands or artists have little to no talent, or/and the music is just plain and simple terrible. I can honestly say the same of todays rap (being not a huge fan of it to begin with). Just because you are a rap artist does not make you a bling'ed out gangsta, especially if you were born in a small farm town in Iowa. A lot of the times I refuse to listen to the radio because it is the same over and over, at least the radio around here is that way. God bless MP3's and CD players! Cannot wait to see where music is 20-30 years from now and hail good ole' rock music!
 
#80
WJGreer said:
Music is moving in a thousand different directions now. The good news is that we don't have to eat what the industry feeds us anymore. The bad news, in a sense, is that a listener has to sift through a lot more music to find what they want.
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+1

I also think what is missing from the music industry is an trusted independent source for what is new and good. DJ's used to break bands on the radio, VJ's would do so on MTV.

If I had the funding I would start an all music channel. Kind of what MTV was like in the beginning. But I would spotlight all styles of music and have a sharp focus on "emerging artists". While honoring the already popular established acts. I would also incorporate some short lessons as bumpers between shows. Like the "lick of the day" " fill of the day" "vocals of the day" etc... You could have millions of short interviews with people behind the scenes. Like guitar and bass techs, engineers, promoters, even groupies. I would also like to have a round table discussion similar to what they do on "that metal show" but open it up to people from all styles and have them revue the same album. Let them fight it out why the new XXX album is good or bad.

Ok pipe dream over.
 

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