Why is modern music so awful

[jamcat]

Music today is awful because it is made for awful people by awful people.

[_leras]

Music today is awful because it is made for awful people by awful people.

Music today is youthful because it is made for youthful people by youthful people.

Music today is creative because it is made for creative people by creative people.

etc

[VariKusBrainZ]

So not creative

[Igro]

It is shit, because anyone can do music now.

[funky lime]

nevermind

[vurt]

nevermind

great album.

[lotus2035]

Everyones an asshole now that's why. Bunch of assholes.

[thecontrolcentre]

Modern music is awful because you're old.

[mjolnir]

I've noticed that even SoundCloud won't even recommend me any good new genres nor tunes.
I take a peek at some of the recommendations, and it's always trashy junk that you couldn't pay me to listen to.

[jamcat]

Modern music is awful because you're old.

So what you're saying is enjoyment of contemporary music comes not from any objective musical qualities, but rather from the listener partaking in a shared generational experience with their peers?

Interesting take, and probably true. It should be noted that it's in sharp contrast to something like classical music, which can be enjoyed by anyone of any generation, despite the fact that they weren't alive 250 years ago.

[jamcat]

It is shit, because anyone can do music now.

I think it's shit because no one can do music now.

[Bunny_boy]

Modern music is awful because you're old.

So what you're saying is enjoyment of contemporary music comes not from any objective musical qualities, but rather from the listener partaking in a shared generational experience with their peers?

Interesting take, and probably true. It should be noted that it's in sharp contrast to something like classical music, which can be enjoyed by anyone of any generation, despite the fact that they weren't alive 250 years ago.

It's less old chronologically, and more old in the sense of staid.

[jancivil]

I think this is a symptom of aging more then anything. Stuff stops being made for you in the overwhelming manner everything is marketed straight at you when you're young.

When I was young I was very definitely not marketed to "overwhelmingly" and I have remained out of step with that whole trip.
Was Blood Sweat and Tears' second album (reached number one iirc) marketed more to me at age 12 or to my father? Turned me onto Erik Satie for the first time, and to Laura Nyro. Then after they got back to the states after being blackmailed by the Nixon Administration's State Dept to tour behind the Iron Curtain they fell out of favor with the hippies in a big way; and subsequently went kind of avant-garde and never sold like that again.

The video in the OP regards chart music specifically and is actually dealing pretty objectively, but it doesn't look like that's even the topic here.

[machinesworking]

Modern music is awful because you're old.

So what you're saying is enjoyment of contemporary music comes not from any objective musical qualities, but rather from the listener partaking in a shared generational experience with their peers?

Interesting take, and probably true. It should be noted that it's in sharp contrast to something like classical music, which can be enjoyed by anyone of any generation, despite the fact that they weren't alive 250 years ago.

A strong argument can be made that Jazz and Classical are timeless because it's about the most extreme depths you can take western music to. A strong argument can be made that neither really speak to the common man, it's just elitist wankery.

Pop or folk music being every other form of music, is always beholden to the tropes a generation perceives as "real", and after time, most of it gets washed away in the sands of fad. You get your Chuck Berry's, Beatles, Zeppelin, Nirvana, etc. that end up surviving, but even then I would argue those aren't the "best", just what survived as the epitome of an era.

More or less I'm saying I love music but if you take this whole thing too seriously you're going to lose your mind defending ghosts and shadows.

[jancivil]

I don't think "the common man" is an actual thing. OTOH conformity is a real thing, ie., people afraid to individuate themselves much from the crowd.

[to] take this whole thing too seriously

- what, other people's opinions?
"A strong argument can be made that..." meh

I maybe shoulda not had that second cuppa today