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[Hypereides]

I believe evolution in music, as well as other parts of entertainment, is perfectly possible. Its just the people at the top of these industries want to maintain the comfortable status quo. Creative experimentation is an inherent risk thus undesirable. They're resistant to change and new ideas that may be unproven.

Eventually, we'll come full circle and these people at the top will come to realization that "auto-pilot" mode can't persist forever and they'll need to revitalize.

Btw, I sporadically keep discovering new bands I never heard who make great tracks. You still got folks out there who do things that are sincere and "human". They simply drown in the abundance of over-exposed and massively funded inauthentic sludge.

 

[RetroGamingUK]

We peaked in 99

I see your Darude Sandstorm and I'll raise you a…



…and a…

 

[Hypereides]

Basically my favorite band at this moment:

Never heard of them. That track is nice.

I see your Darude Sandstorm and I'll raise you a…



…and a…

Get on my level:

 

[Shadowplay1979]

Everyone thinks its because of shit mainstream radio music, but there was always bland shit mainstream music. Its not that theres no new well made music either, its that theres no more interesting musicians. Even the most talented and able musicians are just kinda "some guy on spotify or youtube". Unfortunately the days of interesting muscians that changed the cultural landscape died around 2000. Since then its just been people trying to be like musicians from the xx's decade instead of being inspired by that music and changing it.

I think basically music used to be an outlet for emotions, ideas or general fuckedupedness.....that had to be rigorously pursued...yknow..like an art. that In the end, people dumped themselves into as an outlet for their visions. It didnt matter if it was just some fuckedup guys from some small town that wanted to be famous and get laid....that was enough to drive innovation.

Now, people have a quick patch,one that requires no skill or talent, they whine on youtube and start twitch streaming channels, instead of pursuing an art to placate that drive, they have a quick outlet to just whine and lay it all bare with no nuance. The things that led to the interesting musician have been replaced by "leave a like and ring that subscribe bell".

There will always be plenty of very talented musicians who can play 6 guitars at once with their pinky toe and shred some annoying bland long metal solo...... but there will never be another david bowie, ramones or elvis.

Music stopped being important when people started saying "i like a little of everything" which to me means, nothing really holds any value to you , musically

 

[MrCunningham]

This is 10 years old now... oh man. True Survivor is one of my favorite music tracks made by an independent creator. It's for the Youtube movie Kung Fury. The theme song with Hasslehoff is great, video visually looks really good. Kung Fury is great.

 

[StueyDuck]

music died in like 2016, there's a few holdouts from before that still keep the talent still going.

As someone who never really liked coldplay, post 2016 i learnt to appreciate just how talented they are, same with bands like one republic who still manage to keep trucking and somehow breakout through modern mumble rap shite.

 

[MilkyJoe]

Listening to the radio at work today, mainly chart stuff, and after a few hours something struck me… none of this would have sounded out of place 25 years ago.

I started thinking as to why this was, after all hearing most music from the 20th century you could clearly guess the decade it was made based on singing style and the instruments being used.

I have a few theories as to why this might be…

- At no point in human history have so many people had resources and time to create and distribute music compared to the latter half of the 20th century, a sudden explosion of creativity

- In the 20th century we went from folk to jazz to rock to pop to disco to electronic, all as a result of rapid tech innovation, humanity may never encounter that again. For example you can't invent the electric guitar again, and sequencers have been around since the early 90s

- Social attitudes changed as the west went from a religious to secular society. Western culture hasn't changed much, and the rest of the world is rapidly westernising.

- Globalisation happened so that sounds and genres from all over the world have be adapted and combined (think Beatles in India), this can only happen once in history

- There are only so many possible melodies we can come up with, at some point they end up being repeated (there intentional or not) and lawyers can't wait to sue any artist who their music matching software catches out

I'm sure that things that are cool don't always stay cool and trends always change, but by the end of the 21st century, will there really be any music that wouldn't have sounded that out of place in the 1990s?

It's not just music, it's everything,! every decade had a distinct shift in music and culture, since 1999 literally nothing has changed!!!

 

[RetroGamingUK]

It's not just music, it's everything,! every decade had a distinct shift in music and culture, since 1999 literally nothing has changed!!!

Youth fashion seems to just be recycling decades old fashions too, like it goes in cycles now.

I remember as a kid each generation had its own style, now everyone pretty much dresses the same regardless of age (thought saying that they did in Victorian times too).

 

[Lucifers Beard]

You're listening to the radio and most of that shit sounds the same to me.

I can't speak for all genres but modern metal music sounds nothing like it did 20-30 years ago. I'm not a massive fan of the modern metal scene but it definitely has changed quite a bit in that time. I assume it will be the same for most groups that use actual instruments too.