What is happening to the music industry?

[Gundog48]

Let's set this straight first, I am 15, and unlike a lot of my friends I can appreciate music that is over a year old! So many people will only listen to music that has just been released and anything else is labelled as old which is apparently a suitable reason not to listen to it. Personally, I can appreciate all music which I like, way back from the 60's, to Paul Weller and the Jam, to Oasis all the way up to Coldplay and Eminem's newest albums. I like plenty of other music, but am not a fan of most rap music, just the stuff I like that is not just some idiot shouting about how many drugs he takes.

It does beg the question, what kind of a state is the music industry likely to be in when all people want to hear is popular music that is only a month old? It will just lead to more copycat, generic songs that everyone will love for a month, then forget. What about originality? What will happen to the development of music that will stand the test of time?

And I think the following demonstrates how bad it is these days bearing in mind this is genuinely considered as music:

 

[Gundog48]

If there's one thing I hate is music snobbery and coming out of someone so young as the OP saddens me more.
My all time favourite bands are Led Zeppelin, Slayer, Metallica etc but the song in the OP is better than some of the worst drivel they put out.
There are two forms of music - good & bad.

If there is one thing I am not, it's snobby about music! I'm not really a big music person but I listen to whatever music I like varying in age and genre. Granted, a lot of the older songs I like will be very dissimilar to those who were around when they were released because it is only the popular old songs that you hear about today. I enjoy music from pretty much every genre and I don't judge people on their choice of music whatsoever. What I can't stand though, is people who will listen to the most popular music because it is fashionable and after a month refuse to be associated with that particular track because it's 'old'. I think people like that are so ignorant as they simply refuse to like anything other than what everyone else does. Me, if I like a particular song I'll whack it on my iPod and listen to it no matter what the age or genre. And as I said, I don't judge people on what music they listen to, I just don't like in when people go all tunnel vision when it comes to what they listen to.

Thanks for letting me know about Ark Studios. You see a song like this on the internet, appears to be professionally shot and edited and features another artist and you assume it is a legit song. Too late though, seems the whole internet is up in arms about it- I even heard it on the radio. Silly thing is, the unpopularity of the song is probably earning her a fortune through YouTube, not to mention Ark Studios!

 

[Gundog48]

There's nothing better than liking a variety of music, although it can be quite expensive- thank god for single track downloads! Don't forget, I don't mind people that only like one kind of music, it's those who deliberately choose to remain ignorent to other music to stay on trend that get me!