Why is modern music so awful

[PROSryan]

This is very interesting musically, morally and technically

[topaz]

Why is some modern pop music so awful ?

The same reason some pop music has always been aweful.

Next.

[Viktor [TUC]]

And some in every other genre as well. If you look for awful, you'll find some awful.
He's making some very sketchy arguments there. Did I TRULY like that favourite pop song song of mine from the past 10 years? Yeah I did, Mister "I turn on the car radio for 10 minutes and know all about modern pop".

[zerocrossing]

How boring, old people complaining about modern music. I bet there was some Neanderthal complaining about an animal skin pulled over a hollowed out log, when in his day it was good enough to just hit a tree with a rock.

[Hewitt Huntwork]

Music that can cast a spell creates sonic alchemy. A lot of modern music strives to avoid alchemy; to keep every sound distinct. We equate the clarity of musical elements with sonic fidelity. To avoid alchemy is to avoid magic.

[Bunny_boy]

Music for the last 250 years has been shit

[Gamma-UT]

Music for the last 250 years has been shit

Is that you, Antonio?

[Artie Fichelle]

It is the taste, that makes the music, not the other way around.Taste comes with distinction, hearing a variety of stuff. That is how you develop like seeing a good building versus a hut.

[holmer]

Because the West has given up on itself.

[aMUSEd]

I think it is partly the fault of the media who lavish the most ridiculous and absurd praise on modern pop musicians, I even read one Guardian reviewer seriously trying to compare Taylor Swift lyrics to Shakespeare!

[Bunny_boy]

This article? It's a Shakespeare professor that is quoted
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... ulum-books

[Bunny_boy]

I tried watching the video but the bloke's delivery is off-putting to me.

Did he put the Beatles output in the context of the music of the time? Most records in the 60s and 70s were brain-draining pap of the biggest order - something that the proles would probably listen to in Airstrip One.

To say that the biggest artists are definitely the best has not been the case for decades, and should not be a revelation to anybody.

[seangm]

"Why are modern click-baity Rick Beato wanna-be videos so awful?"

[WackyZoundz]

The music didn't get worse, it's the music and media industry which did (in an artistic sense).

You can still find plenty of great music today but you have to dig deep to find it, it's not going to pop up in your Spotify recommendations nor will you hear it live, you need to look in obscure places or stumble upon it by accident.

[Gamma-UT]

I think it is partly the fault of the media who lavish the most ridiculous and absurd praise on modern pop musicians, I even read one Guardian reviewer seriously trying to compare Taylor Swift lyrics to Shakespeare!

Hamlet
[To Ophelia] Lady, shall I lie in your lap?*

Ophelia
No, my lord!

Hamlet
I mean, my head upon your lap.

...

Hamlet
That's a fair thought to lie between maids' legs.

Ophelia
What is, my lord?

Hamlet
“Nothing.”

Ophelia
You are merry, my lord.

Carry-on movies had more subtle gags than that. I can believe Taylor Swift lyrics sit easily in between that passage and the top Shakespeare stuff.

* OK, you need some understanding of Elizabethan innuendo here but you can probably guess what this meant, and how the tanked-up audience would react down The Globe.