todays music sucks

[Playboy]

Let me just say that the end result is the only thing that matters. If it sounds good to you, it sounds good to you.

Music software allows artists to try new things faster. They can choose to scrap it or publish it. More crap probably does come out of it, but this is not a one way street. Amazing things have come from it too.

Also, synthesizers can do more than just mimic instruments and a setup like this has more potential than you're giving credit for.

Here's some more recent technology in music. It can do things no other instrument can do. Example of it being played.

What "sounds good" to the mainstream ear nowadays is what scares me, and that's what I'm talking about. The continuum is something that is a legitimately useful innovation for music, and people won't line up to hear one in concert the same way they will to see Ke$ha struggle through a live performance.

Music software is simply a necessary evil for modern composers. I've seen way too many composition students use it as a crutch to BS their way through school. Same reason I don't have to spell anything correctly anymore since Microsoft Word or Google will automatically fix it for me. Convenience often bastardizes competence.

@Ghengis: I've only heard one Ladytron song and that was back in 2006 or so... never heard them live. Not sure I've ever really put in a good word for them unless I was suggesting them based on someone's personal taste.

Your theory, "The truly exceptional will still rise above the masses," falls short when you look at Katy Perry, who recently made Billboard history with her album Teenage Dream. She surpassed Madonna and tied Michael Jackson for sending five songs from the same album to #1 on the Hot 100. This is a testament to the current state of the music industry and how it has declined over the past 50 years.

 

[Madnis]

Your theory, "The truly exceptional will still rise above the masses," falls short when you look at Katy Perry, who recently made Billboard history with her album Teenage Dream. She surpassed Madonna and tied Michael Jackson for sending five songs from the same album to #1 on the Hot 100. This is a testament to the current state of the music industry and how it has declined over the past 50 years.

yes, and who could forget the musical genius that was Antoine Dodson? just letting you know, i called that shit.

 

[Pocky-Yoshi]

Umm, i think you guys are misunderstanding something...and i think i was too general with my first post too.

Im talking about the music that is targeted at high school kids. Im not talking about clubs, rather, high school dances and college house/frat parties. I can dig clubs.

Ramble of my opinion....again lol.

Born in the '90s, but music is music to me. I don't have particular favorites, but I listen to what "moves" me. If I need a "refined yet easygoing time" for instance, I can appreciate classical music, jazz, slow jams, and a few chill video game tracks. If I need an "adrenaline rush", I look to house music, techno, j-rock, j-metal and whatever. I'm biased and will say the music industry sucks, but I don't hate it. Because every once a while, you end up listening to things that aren't as bad in the mainstream. As for the sex, money, love, etc music? I cringe. But some music with that as their topic, actually do make me move despite that. I become a fan if the artist(s) I'm listening to has many tracks I like or they made something I can call a "gem". That's my opinion.

As for music being targeted at high school kids or so? It's all about making money based on what certain people like listening to. Personally, I prefer not to get associated with certain idiots who are ignorant with their trashy hip-hop group for instance. I'm a very timid, picky, and quiet man. But if I happen to meet someone cool that listens to hip-hop today, I wouldn't go and start a argument on that. That's what they like and I eventually will soften up to some tracks that aren't bad. But to stay on track, if the music moves the crowd, then you should move too or GTFO. In a prom for instance, you're expected to have fun with the music that's hip of today.

 

[Playboy]

...example being if a sample is used, knowing where the sample is from and how it's used to form the new song...

Speaking of that, I thought about you the other day when I heard JLo's Get Right. I was trying to tell someone that the saxophone sample was ripped off from something. I couldn't remember what it was from and no one believed me. :)

 

[Ghengis_John]

Your theory, "The truly exceptional will still rise above the masses," falls short when you look at Katy Perry, who recently made Billboard history with her album Teenage Dream. She surpassed Madonna and tied Michael Jackson for sending five songs from the same album to #1 on the Hot 100. This is a testament to the current state of the music industry and how it has declined over the past 50 years.

You're going to tell me this is the only era with successful shills now? For that matter you're the imprimatur of good taste now? Are we seriously going that route?