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Why is modern pop music today so terrible?

Here is one view.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVME_l4IwII
don_c55
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chrisr
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Copy and paste without musicians... sample of a sample of a sample of a sample...
transaudio
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I think there is a lot of great music out there but they have no widely visible method to distribute it.  Back in the "good old days" of the Beatles, record companies invested and promoted bands.   They also ripped them off at times.  So now record companies are gone, no more of that 3 weeks in the studio-expenses paid- to write and create stuff.   Now the artists make money on the tour, not the record, and usually finance the record themselves.   So they do what they want.

There are a few great records out there made today.  Sarah Jarosz (americana) sounds amazing.  All her records done by the same guy Gary Pacoza who is really good at recording.  The Lorde record was done well, minimal processing, decent sound, nice and simple, not much production.  Michael Bishop's (engineer) DSD work is so good, like Eric Bibb and Hiromi.    Look up recordings by engineer Bill Vorndik (Bella Flek is a client of his), or George Massenburg etc.  So I think its out there.

Brad   
czarivey
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pop music is simple way to get money with little effort applied at all times since we started recording artists.

Rihanna, Justin Timberlake or Bieber or Beyoncé aren’t any better or worse than Bruce Springsteen, Bon Jovi, Bette Midler or Pat Benatar .

Dean Martin proved to the world that miserable crooner as he was couldn’t be a jazz singer. Barry Manilow also proved that he’s just another miserable microphone dude as well.

Wat else u can expect from pop? It’s cheap to build and bring -- that’s all its purpose for all times and days.

Pop and music are two different meanings where music requires continuous and intensive training and practicing and pop just only needs ’pre-cooked show biz recipe’. As an analogy, you can compare canned food with home made or chef made fresh food.

inna
7,132 posts
 
Exactly. Pop music is terrible in all time periods, just probably getting worse and worse. And that's good - let's see how bad bad can be.
transaudio
96 posts
 
One note: pop music by definition is viewed differently depending on perspective.  
If you were 13 in 1962, the Beatles was the most amazing band ever.
If you were 19, the Stones was WAY cooler, much more the street band and avant garde of the time.  The Beatles all cheesy pop music!  Plus they can barely play their instruments. 
If you were 35 in 1962, you may well have thought the Beatles absolutely sucked, 3 chord garbage.  Give me the big band that was at least comprised of musicians who could play.

Brad


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