Music of this generation

Jordan
December 27, 2011 12:56pm CST
I'm really pissed with the popular music everyone listens to these days. I think it is just crappy. I'm not sure why I hate it so much, I just don't like the style of the music. I was amazed by the number of teenagers converting to listening to that music all of a sudden. I knew some people who listened to some very different types of music than the ones popular today and all of a sudden they just stopped listening to anything but this type of music. It's just weird. I mostly listen to Rock music. Although I'm 18 and didn't lived through the Rock and Roll era I still love it. What do you think of today's music? Do you think it is way over-rated? Or do you like it?
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7 responses
@FluxNL (503)
• Netherlands
29 Dec 11
today's music is to much rushing for example Rihanna is making a song after song without breaks, because the music world is hard at the moment. Why you don't take time to make a song/album. You can deliver much better work and nicer. For example Coldplay's new album 'Mylo Xyloto' is a work, they spend 3 years at it. You see the passion and the beauty of it. Nowadays bands/artist. Commonly the artist who keeps making a new song after new song. Just to keep there fans happy. I dont like this, but I don't care. I listen tot the old bands. Queen, The Rolling Stones, Coldplay, Elbow, The Beatles.
• Jordan
29 Dec 11
Very good point there FluxNL. I noticed that aswell. I think it's because the music is majorly edited/generated using computers that they are releasing music so fast. Generating music through the computer can take less time than if there was a real band with real instruments to play the music. Well, what can we do besides giving our humble opinions about it. I'm not sure why people are so obsessed with them, but whatever, each has their own taste.
@mcmikis (26)
• Lithuania
28 Dec 11
Well, i find it that new music styles are quite nice. I'm a teenager and I prefer the styles like hardtsyle, electro, hardtchno, something that really shakes my head :) But dont get me wrong, from time to time, I like to listen to rock or some calm piano music. Recently,I've been listening to James Blunt, Evanesence and other types of groups. :)
• Jordan
28 Dec 11
Most teenagers listen to the types of music you mentioned at the beginning, that's why they're "popular". It's not something bad to do, I'm just not into that type of music, each has their own taste.
@CarlHalling (3617)
• United Kingdom
27 Dec 11
It depends on the type in my view. There is some truly great music being made today, but I feel a person has to look for it. Things have changed a lot since I was young. Music today is very largely centred on the internet, and there is an incredible wealth of music available to people today. Unlike when I was young, which was a time you only got to hear a small amount of the total amount of music being made at any given time. The only way to hear music then was on TV; or on the radio; or through friends. And if you wanted to hear an album, you had to buy a copy of it unless you were lucky enough for it to be played on the radio. I'd spend ages searching through record shops for an album to buy. And sometimes I'd get it home and be disappointed in it. I also used to buy records through mail order. It was incredibly exciting, because you often didn't know what you were getting. The Rock and Roll era was uniquely powerful...not necessarily for good either. In 2012, it's become quite mature, over 50 years old, so there is not the same power, the same mystery, the same ballyhoo, the same sense of history being made. History of course is still being made in terms of creativity; with technology (especially internet technology) having the same power and mystery music once had. Yet as I say, there is still some incredibly good music being made. It's just that...it's not accompanied by the sensationalism of the Rock and Roll era; and the Rock and Roll star system, at the height of its power.
• Jordan
28 Dec 11
Good music is, ofcourse, still being made today, but I have mentioned that it's the popular music of today that I think isn't of much quality. I feel like Rock music has power not there in any other type of music. Earlier I didn't listen to much music, I think because I was too young to even listen to music at the time. I agree with you that music of today doesn't have the same sense as music of a couple of decades ago. I just don't feel any spirit in it.
@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
27 Dec 11
I think that many of the singers and musicians years ago did take music, singing, and voice training whereas now few do. A lot of it now is based on popularity and the worship of the singer rather then of any great talents. I do love Rock and Roll, Classsical, and Opera as well as SAcred. When I listen to even popular singers of a while ago, like Elvis Presley, I can tell that he had talent. Not so nowadays with all tha rapp.
• Jordan
27 Dec 11
Exactly! Popular music of this generation is collectively computer generated/edited. The singer has pretty much no vital role except for his/her popularity. This is really weird, how people are not taking into account any important factors that singers must have.
@cearn25 (3456)
• Philippines
28 Dec 11
I don't hate the music of today although I am not into the songs we have today. I am more of the songs of the past. For me, there is a big difference from today's music rather than the past. It is already the choice of a person what music he likes. Let's just respect each other.
• Jordan
28 Dec 11
I do respect people with all tastes. But I just don't see how a particular singer is good when he/she has no exceptional voice, their music is 90% computer generated/edited and their songs' lyrics have no exceptional meaning.
28 Dec 11
I would like to listen old music only. Todays music is filled with the beat only and could not find melodies. I find all the old songs melodius. So I like old music only.
• Jordan
28 Dec 11
I agree. Today's popular music seems to have every annoying sound there could ever exist. There are not many real instruments being played. I don't see how that can make a particular singer any good.
@bounce58 (17387)
• Canada
27 Dec 11
I think music is a matter of choice. The more variety of music one gets a chance to listen to, the more chance he or she can make up his or her mind and determine which one to like. Unfortunately, pop music is the one so prevalant at any given time. It's readily available, that teens make it their 'favorites' right away. I'm sure that even before you heard rock and roll you were listening to something else. And that comparison made you decide that rock and roll was a better choice.