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Probably because you reach a point where you've got all the music you like, and that's what you listen to. New music tends to be less interesting. I think there's also the issue that in the 90's there was a big consolidation of smaller music publishers being consumed by the big five. Music became all about the industry and the money, rather than creating music. Bland vehicles for money-making, dull rap regurgitating the same genre tropes, songs based completely off samples from previous hits because most artists are too unoriginal to write their own music or lyrics.

Every now and then an artist does something I enjoy (because I'm a sucker for a polished pop song and a good voice), but the industry itself is modelled for maximum profit, and musical talent has been pushed down the list of requirements.
 
The internet / mp3s ripped the soul out of music for sure but there's still good stuff being produced. Just hard to form an emotional attachment to it as it's all so readily available.
Gone are the days where you pore over the art work, lytics, thank yous and pictures of the band from the CD inlay whilst listening to the album on repeat at least 5 times so you really "get it".
Times change.
 
Times change

swinging 60s
Hippy 70s
Yuppy 80s
Britpop 90s

etc etc

We are currently in the decade of talking rap (think 2 unlimited from the 90s but a bit worse).

I'm the man with the plan
Singing for my one and only fan
fan, fan, fan, fan, I have one fan
faaaaannnnnnnnnnn
but I'm the man with the plan
 
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"American Crap" has dominated the 00s Gangster rap, Eminem, Snoop dog. Im clutching at straws here but id say that was pretty defining genre sadly.
Freaks like Lady GaGa... Black RNB Beyonace, Jenny from the Block, Rihanna? Whatever she is called

Ill call it Skate music but stuff like Linkin Park, Blink 182 generic crap like that.
Metal and Rock Marlyn Manson, Slipknot.

X factor and Other generic **** became the norm in the 2000s producing a steady stream of genetically engineered BS.
One direction, Hideous but world conquering. for me its a sign of the 00s

yes it is utterly grim compared to the 80s and 90s but its deffo all there

Adele? and that awful whingey woman voice type music Amy "Whine"house, god the sooner that goes away the better.

Justin beiber, timberlake, kate perry oh jesus kill me now.... These are the reasons i stopped keeping up with music.
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I couldn't stand Eminem or Snoop Dog. Lady Gaga... What the hell was that? The first time I heard of her I thought she was a transgender. Beyonce, my god she is an irritating women on the political scene trying to create sex scenes like Miley Cyrus. I really detest that Beyonce as well as her music. Couldn't stand her even in Destiny's Child. Rihanna, LoL no.

I've never understood what it is about weird nappy pants/skin tight jeans One Direction. Screams faints!

Adele, scum with money. I was so shocked, shocked the first time I heard her speak to people. How common she sounds. Though only one of her songs I like. The one with the trippy multiple adele's over each other who I honestly didn't know it was her song. As it sounds different to her style. It is rather interesting up in the clouds kind of song.

Of course pink fluffy clouds. :D

Something about that Adele song reminds me of Enigma...

LoL! Haha! Last sentance I agree. However, that latest song from Timberlake is catchy. :D Can't stop the feeling.

Though I'll always love quite a number of hits from George Michael.


I still love Simply Red, Robert Miles, Enigma, especially Def Leppard. Music doesn't quite sound as good as the old stuff. Sure I have heard some but it is becoming smaller.

Kosheen, Sash, some of BT, Paul Oakenfold mixes...

I really loved that sound of music from the late 90's to early 00's.



I thoroughly enjoy my New Age channels on iTunes. Very therapeutic while working away on my graphics.



The Pierces reminds me of The Temper Trap. Quite like their stuff. Also have a soft spot for some of Taylor Swift and Ellie Goulding's stuff. Jess Glynne is a bit iffy. Only liked a few of her songs.
Then I discovered Rae Morris, Jessie Ware and Echo Smith on Addict Star.


I also love a bit of chillout lounge.
 
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Lady Gaga... What the hell was that? The first time I heard of her I thought she was a transgender.
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And for those comments, I'd put her up there with the likes of Marc Bolan, Gary Numan and David Bowie. She's as much about the performance art as she is her music, both of which are strangely engaging.
I quite like her.

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Rihanna, LoL no.
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There was a great 80s-sounding track called 'Disturbia' that I thought was quite catchy... then I found out it was her and lost a lot of interest.

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Adele, scum with money. I was so shocked, shocked the first time I heard her speak to people. How common she sounds.
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You ever heard The Rolling Stones speaking, or Brian Johnson?
Nothing wrong with being lower class if you can deliver... I thought her whole draw was how she speaks honestly and doesn't give a toss what people think of her, which makes a change from the usual.


The rest of that lot you can keep, though. Not even heard of half of them...
 
MookJong said:
Where do people think it ended, for me I see the 00s Nu Metal and the Emo era as like the last big music movement that you could actually see and feel in society.
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I think the 2004 emo/post-hardcore era was one of the last ones where the music was acceptable to play on MTV (cause that was a thing) and sometimes even radio.

Metalcore did start appearing around 2008 and I'd consider that a relatively big movement, albeit mostly for teens (but then again so were the Beatles, Nirvana, etc) The problem was that after Nirvana, Linking Park, etc, it had to become heavier for people to still think it was 'edgy', which made that it never appeared on radio or tv cause the mainstream audience don't want to listen to a guy scream for 4 minutes.

Most these heavy bands now go towards a more mainstream sound though, and a lot of the underground crowd now start enjoying more radio friendly bands like PVRIS, This Wild Life, etc.

I've noticed over the last few years pop-punk is making a return with Blink-182 and Sum41 creating new albums and 'newer' bands like Neck Deep, Real Friends, etc. appearing. A lot of the post-hardcore bands I used to be into are also coming back (Story of the Year, Saosin, etc) and I still love the nostalgia of that.

But after 2010 I don't think I've heard anything extremely original and different that hadn't been done before. Perhaps dubstep still counts, although I feel that's good as dead now. Maybe we've run out of musical styles with current instruments and creativity? :confused:
 
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Good post Feronix, you make some good points.

Dubstep certainly seems like the closest thing I can think of lately. It definetly tipped over into the mainstream, you hear it's influence all over but I just don't feel it quite got big enough to be a social movement.

I think the internet means that grassroots movements are exposed to the mainstream far too quickly for them to get a mass youth following. The internet means the rest of society can catch on too quickly and water it down.
 
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