No such thing as Rock and Roll

Aug 13, 2022 -- 9:09PM, mesmerised wrote:

grew up in the 90's/early 00's where Indie music was all the rage, Manic Street preachers, Sterophonics, Oasis, Blur, Ocean colour scene, the Verve, all great bands and they were just the mainstream ones, quality especially when you stand them to what's out there in 2022, you had to work seriously hard to get to number 1 back then let alone before, now nobody actually cares about chart positions or knows who's first because any rubbish can top them and you don't have to sell many copies to get there.The main reason why music has deteriorated is in large parts due to the dynamic range compression of Timbre (quality of musical sounds/notes) which is thanks to the rise of Kitsch music which dominates today, low brow, mass produced pap such as Taylor Swift, Katy Perry and Beiber, music (or noise) that is cheaper to make with simplistic drum machines and computer software rather than the vast array of instruments the likes of the Beatles utilised. Modern pop all sounds the same is because it is the same, they all use the same simple and repetitive note sequences with the same repetitive lyrics all mostly written by the same songwriter Max Martin who injects hooks (catchy melodies) into songs early in response to the modern listeners short attention span, with mindless fillers such as la la's la's or oh, oh, oh's etc that means absolutely nothing and conveys even less. This repetitiveness is deliberate to breed familiarity, people like familiarity as it brings comfort. That's the idea anyway. Elton John, Bob Dylan, the Beatles, Bob Marley, Joe Cocker, Jimi Hendrix and the like would all fail modern TV talent shows because they're not formulaic, couldn't be moulded into a production companies image and would refuse to sing songs by the likes of Adele who cornered the whiny break up market over the last decade. If you're talented and can play instruments, X factor and Idol shows are not for you. And that's what's been watched in the millions recently, the decline of music encapsulated in a nutshell.

I've never heard such arrogance in all my years on here. It is clearly obvious that one is a product of their environment, hence why you never listened to Ma rainey or Arthur Collins from the early 1900s, you grew up and learnt to like the music around you, you were force fed everything, the same as today's teenagers.
Everything you said is subjective babble, music hasn't declined mes, it changes like everything else otherwise we'd still be driving around with a horse in front, if we didn't change we would end up like you all stagnant.
You simply cannot say that something is better than something else, pure arrogance. Even if you liked Beethoven's 6th symphony it is no more melodious than a dog farting, simply subjective nonsense and you know it! Sitting in a recording studio for months strumming a guitar to produce pink Floyd's comfortably numb is no different to Justin Biebers song peaches made on a computer or whatever. If you think it is you have mental problems. Break it all down mes go on,use your noggin instead of the words you've been force fed that are on repeat 24/7 in that limited world of yours. Go to bed!