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Ah me,Voted for by freeduck.
Does anyone else sort of feel like music used to mean a lot more to people. Constant media bombardment, all the different flash in the pan groups, billions of genres and sub-genres, all contributing towards the rapid decay of American musical sensitivity. Ask the average teenager what he or she listens to and they will say, "Everything". Ask them to name a few of their favorite styles and they will very likely say, "Uh, rock, top 40, rap, country, metal, uh, everything!" Diffused attention spans run rampant, and the odd thing is, with all these restless, ritalin-battered minds and thier short attention spans, these kids can enjoy the same song over and over and over. Now when I say the same song I don't mean it has the same lyrics or instruments, it wasn't written or performed by the same people, and it doesn't look the same at a glance. But its all the same, tired, boring crap. They keep talking about all these HOT NEW rock bands out there, and all the bands do is play what was cool 10 or 20 years ago. But even some of these groups are viable. See, my point is not that people listen to bad music, my point is that nobody ever wants to listen to music thats outside the box, whatever that box may be. A metalhead is a metalhead. A raver is a raver. A punker is a punker. And a rave-punk metalhead is a rave-punk metalhead. Why aren't more people embracing music as a whole instead of only accepting parts? Why aren't there more rave-punk metalhead gangstas who like a little bach and hank williams to compliment there pink floyd or enya? Why no jazz afficienados dancing to Bulgarian folk music or techno? And all these genres wasted. Rap is currently in the position that rock was 40 years ago. Its quite juvenile, with no real artistic ambition. Its out there on the fringes waiting to be heard. You can hear inklings of it. Things actually being said. I've sort of lost my lighthouse here, but I'm satisfied just ranting. I want to make music a career. I want to create it. All of it. I do not want to be in a "rock" band, or a "metal band". I want to be like the Beatles. They left no stone untouched in their fearless exploration of music, and yet they appealed greatly to the masses. This energy they produced caused a revolution in music, culture, and politics. That was the key, They wrote great, catchy pop songs, but they were only catchy because they were so undeniably good. I sometimes feel that in the past, when man was more primitive, people thought of music as one thing, just music. Not rock or classical or pop music. just music, and I'll bet they embraced it all. Anyone notice the complete disappearance of rock-stars. In the sixties, all these people were trying to change the world through music, and they really did. Nowdays, it feels like music has little or no affect on society. Like society won and just devoured it, assimilated it into its bloated, gotesque body, turned it into another tool for oppression. Bad music everywhere. But then again, I do sort of feel the tremors of a revolution in the soil. Like maybe something big is about to happen. We need this so bad. We desperately need this. Their still on the fringes, but some incredible artists are digging thier fingers into the information pool that evey american has access to. And thier are so many people out there who just want something more, something grander. We want music that will be remembered when our generation has been forgotten.
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ElitismVoted for by DartOfChaos.
That is music elitism at its finest. People have musical tastes and are afraid of going beyond them as their own musical subgenre provides enough material to keep them satisfied.
A counter argument could be made that it is a persons taste that does not allow them to embrace music as a whole. Everyone must admit to have been irritated by a specific song or genre once in their life.
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I agree. I talk about that a lot to people. People who understand anyway. And I do though formulate my opinion as "today's popular music sucks." Not very diplomatic, nor entirely true. But in my opinion, today's music sucks. Simple Plan is just about the worst group there is. Britney Spears and her Simpson sisters troop are mindless drones. 50 cent and his whore house rappers are just plain offensive. And yeah, I could name more that I utterly hate. And yeah. I'm 16. I listen to music from the baroque time all the way to today. Hmmm, just about. I've missed the first 50 years of the 20th century and probably a couple of centuries. No CDs available of those times. But, I love classical music, such as Vivaldi (especially). I love the Beatles from the 60s and 70s (hell yes). I love Kate Bush and David Bowie from the 70s and 80s. I love The Smiths, The Church and Peter Gabriel from the 80s. I love Tori Amos, Suzanne Vega, Radiohead, Portishead, The Smashing Pumpkins, Sinéad O'Connor and The Cranberries from the 90s (my favourite decade music-wise). And finally, I love Damien Rice, Ani Difranco, Garbage, Mickey 3D, Coldplay and Kings of Convenience from today's music. Oh and billions more, but those are the main ones. So with these, I like thinking that I'm am more open-minded than my fellow age group. I wish people would at least listen before judging the "old people" music as bad. I also give myself permission to say today's popular music sucks because I have listened to it. Too much in fact. It makes me want to vomit for the most part. But anyway. Music is my life. Yes yes.
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totally agree....Voted for by anithendan.
i totally agree with you, and can i add i am amazed that at your young age you are able to stand up and disagree with the rest of the crowd, in today's world, every teenager wants to be like the next teenager, a few have an opinion of their own, and so i find it very impressive that you listen to the music that you say you do, most young people choose music to be cool, and i think that we should choose music that satisfy our soul, because that is what music is supposed to do.
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I like 'everything'Voted for by emo-tech.
but when I say that, what I usually mean is I listen to many different genres of music and to simply list them all would take too long. Plus, I hear "What kind of music do you like?" way too often as a line, and it makes me defensive.
I might often say what band I'm into most right now, and that is usually either a current popular band, or something you've never heard of. I try to stay away from mentioning the latter because no one knows what I'm talking about -- and that happens all too often anyway.
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