Am I getting old or ....

A few month ago I was given £10 iTunes credit. I spent a while looking through the store to find some music to spend it on. In the end I spent it on iPhone apps and a movie rental. I'm 29 and originally though I was getting old. But even my 19 year old sister agrees that music today is crap
 
You’re getting old and “pop” music can’t get any worse than it is now. I think you’ll find that people have been saying this for a long time.
 
I'm 34 and it's all crap. There seems to have been a change during the 90's as MTV reached the masses. My Spotify playlists have more 70's/80's tracks than anything recent.
 
You aren't getting old.

Chart music is crap. Most of the stuff I listen to is 80s, 90s and early 00s. I like the odd newer band such as Biffy Clyro but I cannot stand all the hiphop RnB 'rude boi' music.
 
it amazes me how many people are sheep they only listen to the stuff the music companies tell them to like, if only they would find music outside of the mainstream.

at work we have to listen to heart for 8 hours every weekday now that's punishment.
 
Maybe todays chart music is rubbish but maybe it always has been - plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. I don't like a lot of the music in the charts at the moment but I'm lucky enough to have the choice generally in what I listen to, I wonder how much of the perceived superiority of music in the past is down to a combination of nostalgia and the relative paucity of choice in how and where you could hear it.
 
magick said:
But back in the 80s there were actual bands with talent where as on the chart show the other night virtualy every song they played sounds like it was banged together on a PC in a few hours on a program like Reason or Fruity Loops.
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Plan B
Tinie Tempah
Ellie Goulding
Kate Nash
3OH!3
Professor Green
Kelis

All in the top 40 at the mo, and all interesting artists with something different about them. From Plan B fusing northern soul with rap, Tinie Tempah showing how a debut single can make an impact, 3OH!3 doing great pop, Kelis and Ellie Goulding doing haunting melodic, yet entirely different types of records, and Professor Green using a pretty sacred sample with some cheeky lyrics on the top.

If you can't see the wheat from the chaff then you're being blinded by NDubz toilet water, there's definitely some fine music out there. Oh, and we're coming up to festival season so it'll be indie guitar bands assaulting the charts over the next few months if that's your thing.
 
95% of the chart stuff has been crap for the last 10-15 years.

There are however, the odd decent tune/band in there sometimes, and some times when there are a good few tunes in the Top 40. Some tunes are just shocking - usually by girl/boy band types or reality show one hit wonders. One of the main reasons the charts have declined so badly in my opinion.

Just a lot less than there were in the 70, 80's and early 90's.
 
Timbaland and Timberlake talentless?
Im sorry but just because you dont like them it doesnt make them talentless.
Im not a massive fan either, but I can acknowledge they both have talents, they are more worthy of being in the charts than many many other people.
 
As im only 15 i can't comment on things from the 70-90's ;)

I think mainstream music turned rubbish in 2004 hehe, can't stand listening to the new stuff. I turn on radio, flick through every channel then just turn it off lol.
 
Today's charts truly are rubbish - I'm an oldie now and music was really exciting when I was growing up, with the punk and new wave scene and music that actually had a message.

I can't stand the current r&b, rap etc rubbish that you hear thumping away in chavved up Novas, nor the bland X factor product that is so heavily promoted all over the airwaves.
 
where do the mobile discos and clubs get their music from?, the normal retail chains i expect if so its heavily weighting dance music in the charts.
 
Redman said:
Plan B
Tinie Tempah
Ellie Goulding
Kate Nash
3OH!3
Professor Green
Kelis

All in the top 40 at the mo, and all interesting artists with something different about them. From Plan B fusing northern soul with rap, Tinie Tempah showing how a debut single can make an impact, 3OH!3 doing great pop, Kelis and Ellie Goulding doing haunting melodic, yet entirely different types of records, and Professor Green using a pretty sacred sample with some cheeky lyrics on the top.

If you can't see the wheat from the chaff then you're being blinded by NDubz toilet water, there's definitely some fine music out there. Oh, and we're coming up to festival season so it'll be indie guitar bands assaulting the charts over the next few months if that's your thing.
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Sorry I just listened to the people you list and I think they are crap, exactly the drivel that's killed chart music. Kate Nash especialy so and Kelis new song is a total rip off from an 80s INXS song.

To give you an idea of what we had in the 80s for some comparison listen to these :-

Martha & The Muffins - Echo Beach
Spandau Ballet - To Cut A Long Story Short
Depeche Mode - Everything Counts
King - Love and Pride
Duran Duran - Girls On Film
Fine Young Cannibals - Johnny Come Home
Cocteau Twins - In Our Angelhood


The videos may not be much by todays standard but music videos didn't matter that much back then
 
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malc30 said:
we are in for Years of manufactured pop tat.
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Well no, thats the point. It isnt pop tat anymore, it's R&B and rap sung by ego driven morons.

Has nobody noticed how many songs have some random guys name shouted over the first 5 seconds of the track? Is this the writer or something desperate to have his name in there?
 
There are good artists still out there albeit a rarity nowadays.

Im rather liking this guy atm.

 
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