one way I know the lemmy population is old is how frequently we complain about the youths these days. we’ve become our parents, and their parents before them, moaning about how no one has good taste anymore
The kids suck, but the olds suck even harder. Moral of the story, “I don’t like people”.
Years of experience, thank you very much.
I’m either still young or just a contrarian but so far I’ve successfully managed to avoid becoming this person. I constantly look for new stuff to experience and I still haven’t felt like things have peaked. As in, no, I don’t think music nowadays sucks, are you insane? There’s so much cool stuff being made all the time that my only complaint is that don’t have enough time to experience it all.
yea im in the sweet spot too lol, 30 and still regularly discovering new music i like. i hope we both maintain this positivity as we age, i think it’s a much nicer way to wade through life. even if i reach a point where i stop liking new music, i hope i can still see the value in it for others, i never want to be that old grump
Idk, man. I started feeling this way when I was ~14, at least about the music I heard on the radio. I rarely got any say over what we listened to in my parent’s cars so I’d constantly be praying that the next song wouldn’t be something that had come out recently
it’s one thing to not like new music, i think that’s normal, people discover the music they like fairly early on and usually get kinda stuck in it. but all the people saying new music is objectively garbage and people just have garbage taste now? yea they got that boomer mentality where the stuff they like from their youth is the golden age, everything else is inferior, and their opinions are facts
I dig new music and follow a bunch of artists who are releasing things right now. Over the last few years I’ve been introduced to entirely new genres and have fallen in love with them. This is the best time ever to be into music, there’s unprecedented variety and even very niche things can grow a strong community. Suffice it to say I do not believe that my personal taste has been cemented
But at the same time imo the typical pop music you hear in public has genuinely been getting worse. Some stuff is okay but a lot of it feels inauthentic. Just my 2c, I wouldn’t argue the point in objective terms
I frequently burn myself out on music so I listen to a lot of new stuff, mainly hip hop and all sorts of electronic. I’ve just been a top 50 chart hater for years
Are we the same person??
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I think it’s moreso the effect of big music labels figuring out how to make music with the broadest possible appeal. Clearly it worked, because these songs do really well statistically, but the result is songs with the blandest possible personality
It isn’t radio though because hardly anyone listens to the radio anymore. It’s probably because there is a practically small amount of radio listening that people have started grabbing onto anything that sounds basic and easily digestible. The less they’re challenged, the better they feel about it.
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“Old music is usually better music” is survivorship bias. I’m not saying you’re wrong but this is something we should have in mind when debating music in general.
Not radio in general, but Clearchannel.
I realized a long time ago that music “sucked” because I would never open myself up to it and genuinely allow myself to find value in it.
It’s like my dad who has just decided that all rap sucks even though he has basically zero experience with it. I said the same thing until I was around 21 and almost missed all the really, really good stuff. Tai Verdes’ album “TV” is incredibly musical, for example.
What do you listen to right now?
I try my hardest to find new songs, because I don’t want to be some boomer bastard.
I don’t know what exactly counts as ‘new’, but I’m enjoying these songs a lot lately
AronChupa & Little Sis Nora - Tangaman
Little Sis Nora - MDMA
These two remind me of late 90s eurobeat shit like Aqua.Shotgun Willy - Bombs Away
bbno$ & Yung Gravy (BABY GRAVY) - Goodness Gracious
I actually just like anything by this bbno$ guy, but I’m loving the beats and flow on these styles of rap.Pickle - Stompin’
Makes me feel like I’m on drugs in a club back in the day.I feel like a lot of new music is probably hidden away on shit like TikTok where I’m never going to be exposed to it because I don’t use it.
Every generation: “I know all the generations before me have whined about the new music the kids are listening to, and I always correctly identified their whining as pathetic old-person behavior. But MY generation is actually right. The new music objectively sucks.”
It’ll happen to the current batch of kids, too.
Nobody will ever rise above it. It’s just a basic part of human nature. You might as well ask people to stop breathing.
Selection bias is huge too. You could argue that the current hits suck, and that the current hits have always sucked in every era. Lots of them do, they’re disposable trash music.
The difference is that we don’t remember half the garbage that hit the charts when we were young, only the good stuff survives. When I play classic bangers for my daughter, she thinks they’re awesome. Some of those tracks are older than me, but with streaming services and huge libraries “hits” don’t really matter that much when we can now listen to the best tracks picked out of a century of recorded music.
I’m nearly 40 and I like to blast some of the current hits, I like stuff from the 90s and I like classic rock, funk and some of the really old jazz and blues stuff. There’s no reason to act like your age has to determine your musical taste.
I have no time for some of the modern rappers with no skill though, that stuff is objectively trash when we grew up with legends like Outkast, Eminem etc lol
Does Canada have music? I thought it was just moose calls and beaver drumming?
And it’s awesome. 🤘
Gregorian chanting of “I’m soory” is their national anthem I thought
That’s music, right?
Blah, blah, blah, just a bunch of music snob nonsense, spewing from your keyboard.
Just stop being a music snob. It’s better and easier. You’re NEVER going to convince people to start hating the music that they like. And if you do, that’s just fucking sad for everyone involved.
All art should be criticized, and bad art should certainly be criticized
And bad art that was made with the immense backing of the status quo should be especially criticized.
Meh, I always hated my generations music. But that is just me cause the others of course love it.
Ahh, so you became a hipster snob EARLY. Lots of people do. It’s fine. I mean, it’s not curable, but neither is most of life.
I miss the old Pandora, just a single page website, limited skips (it was free so it was a small tradeoff), and it actually would recommend music that you’ve never heard before that actually sounded similar to stuff you told its algo you liked.
Radio K KUOM out of Minnesota
Space 101.1 KGMP in Seattle
Check out King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. Something different.
Open the door 🐍
Oh man, great recommendation. The Bug Club is another good one. Their newest album is awesome.
Is this your band or something? Because I just listened to a bunch of songs and while it’s… fine? Lo fi garage rock, it is really nothing similar or on the same level as king gizzard? Just an all around strange recommendation.
Your comment adds nothing of value to the conversation. Please just share something cool that you like, instead of going full-reddit with baseless criticism in an attempt to feel superior.
The image is actually emblematic of why you’re having trouble finding good new music. You’re still just looking at the outside of the haystack. In the modern era it’s incredibly easy to access good new music, but perhaps more difficult to find that music (based upon your tastes). The prevalence of independent music exploded over 20 years ago. At this point, if you’re relying on the vestiges of major labels and popular distribution channels as your tastemakers you’re basically doing it wrong.
The drawback is that you may actually have to put in some time and effort to find new stuff you like, but it’s definitely out there. Probably much more exists than you have time to consider, really. How much time you’re willing to devote spend searching depends on how important it is to you to find new stuff that you enjoy. Use shortcuts and find a different tastemaker associated with genre’s that you like if you want (e.g. online publications, youtube channels, online forums/communities, playlist where they exist, podcast, etc.) You’ll have to put in some time to find the relevant ones to you, but perhaps not as much time as combing through new stuff on your own.
Lots of us with interests in genres with an extensive underground scene have been sifting through the mud to find gems for decades already, and I still enjoy the process a lot, though many people might think I waste a lot of time. These days that skillset is transferable and almost a requirement to find the good stuff in any and every genre. Unless you are lucky or don’t mind enough that the most commercial stuff is still your jam.
(edit: unless of course this post is more a condemnation of broadly popular tastes in music. I’d have to type more to address that, but I’ll save it. It’s nothing new, and also hinges on subjectivity.)
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Tell them to get off your lawn
Try out the Radio Garden app. It lets you pick almost any radio station worldwide and lets you pick through them on a globe. I found a ton of my current favorite artists through it. A few of my coworkers from Venezuela were thrilled to be able to hear stations from their hometowns.
