Music,what the hell happened to you?

Hello everybody.Welcome to my first blog post.Here I will try write a little about todays mainstream music.If you have any thoughts on this subject,feel free to leave a comment bellow. 
Music is one of my favorite things in this world.I just can't live without it.Saddly,music has changed a lot,especially mainstream music.Today mainstream music is populated with a lot of really dumb songs and even dumber singers(I use the term singers loosely).Seriously,thanks to T-Pain even I can become a singer,becouse of the little thing called "Auto-Tune".Songs have stupid lyrics and really annoying beats,that get stuck in your head pretty quickly.I mean the other day on the radio I heard some Justin Bieber song(God I hate him) and even though I heard only about 30 seconds of it,it got stuck in my head for the whole day. 
My favorite genre of music is rap.Sadly most of the rap songs on the radio are fake thug songs about jewelery,women,money,cars...Somehow lyrical songs have no place for the radio.I mean you will never hear rappers like The Roots,CYNE,Fashawn,Jay Electronica,P.O.S. or Atmosphere getting plays on major radio stations. 
So all in all what do you think happened to the music?Do you think any lyrical songs will get plays on the radio?Or do you like todays music. 
P.S. Please excuse me if I made any grammatical mistakes in this blog.

Hello everybody.Welcome to my first blog post.Here I will try write a little about todays mainstream music.If you have any thoughts on this subject,feel free to leave a comment bellow. 
Music is one of my favorite things in this world.I just can't live without it.Saddly,music has changed a lot,especially mainstream music.Today mainstream music is populated with a lot of really dumb songs and even dumber singers(I use the term singers loosely).Seriously,thanks to T-Pain even I can become a singer,becouse of the little thing called "Auto-Tune".Songs have stupid lyrics and really annoying beats,that get stuck in your head pretty quickly.I mean the other day on the radio I heard some Justin Bieber song(God I hate him) and even though I heard only about 30 seconds of it,it got stuck in my head for the whole day. 
My favorite genre of music is rap.Sadly most of the rap songs on the radio are fake thug songs about jewelery,women,money,cars...Somehow lyrical songs have no place for the radio.I mean you will never hear rappers like The Roots,CYNE,Fashawn,Jay Electronica,P.O.S. or Atmosphere getting plays on major radio stations. 
So all in all what do you think happened to the music?Do you think any lyrical songs will get plays on the radio?Or do you like todays music. 
P.S. Please excuse me if I made any grammatical mistakes in this blog.

Traditional radio is dead and should be considered as such. At it's not that music has changed, it's just that the appeal of the young has shifted. The roots, J Dilla, Aesop Rock, MF Doom, they're all still active. They've simply been pushed underground. 
 
Thankfully we live in a world where last.fm, pandora and slacker radio exist; tools that can bring us music that we consider timeless while introducing us to people who's sound hits the same musical vein.

music lives on the internet now, not on TV and Radio. 
 
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Radio ain't the place to be looking for quality music, especially hip hop. Lots of good stuff still gets produced and released, often for free as mixtapes. Stuff like
 

Album is fantastic, released two months ago. Unfortunately it's not in the US itunes store so you might have to pirate it :/

I'm gonna have to direct you to here

I mostly listen to ESPN Radio anymore and there is 1 rock station that's alright in my area.

Oh look, this thread again.
 
Welcome to GB nonetheless.

 Where have you been all these years.  Teen bands and the word "baby" have taken over the whole industry, DragonForce is the only band holding back the little girls, but they are fighting a losing battle.

Music on the tv and radio is completely dead, don't even bother

The problem is that things just ain't the same for gangsters; times is changing, young *ahem* is aging.

I've said it before and I'll say it again this is the worst decade of music ever I don't even know if you would call it music,it really makes me miss the 90's

Music is just as bad as its always been, the only difference is that now you gotta look harder to find the really good stuff because the nature of how people find music is different. Now we get bombarded with thousands of mediocre songs a day that it's hard to find the few really good ones that you will love forever.

Every generation says this; the mainstream radio has always been crap, save for a few gems.  Nothing has changed, at all....
 
the 60's: lame ass dylan/hippie/pop ripoff garbage....
 
the 70's: lame ass rock ripoff garbage, and floods of lame disco shit
 
the 80's: lame ass glam metal ripoffs, not to mention whole heaps of awful pop
 
the 90's: lame ass grunge ripoffs, and the beginnings of bad hip-hop bullshit (esp. "gangsta" rap)
 
the 2000s= same fucking story, different generation bitching about it
 
In other words, youve always had to generally move away from all that crap to find good music.  Underground artists will always be the lifeblood of real tunes, and it will never change

Yea I'm sick of hearing lame ass rhymes over weak ass beats created by big wigs for mainstream radio hustlas!

Tupac and Biggie died

I think music now is better than ever.  People complain about the state of mainstream music, but it's barely changed.  The stuff they played in the '80s and the '90s on TV and the radio were poop too.  As always, you've just had to look for the good music and today, with the help of the internet, you can find some of the most extraordinary music you've ever heard.  With bands like Radiohead, The Shins, Arcade Fire, Grizzly Bear, Band of Horses, The Strokes, Cymbals Eat Guitars, Spoon, Cold War Kids and literally hundreds more, I don't think you could compare any other era of music with the sheer variety and quality of bands out there.

this has happened before. music is pretty much dead in the industry. you have to find music now by the internet. there are only like one good radio station that i listen to but the others aren't that great.

Let's hope this isn't a foreshadowing of what's to come in the gaming industry - although we're already seeing the signs of it.

There's good music in every genre, you just have to search@Mesoian said:

" Traditional radio is dead and should be considered as such. At it's not that music has changed, it's just that the appeal of the young has shifted. The roots, J Dilla, Aesop Rock, MF Doom, they're all still active. They've simply been pushed underground.   Thankfully we live in a world where last.fm, pandora and slacker radio exist; tools that can bring us music that we consider timeless while introducing us to people who's sound hits the same musical vein. "

Music didn't become shittier, its just harder to find the good stuff.

Radio is the place for music that you can dance now, internet is the place for great expressive music

Here is the modern music maybe you've heard of it. 

This is an endless cycle; the music of today will be shit tomorrow.

People are STILL complaining about "today's" music?

There is no music, only ringtones.

The good makes the bad. After a long day of having terrible music forced  upon me from any available speaker, coming home and listening to something I really enjoy makes it all the sweeter.
 
Also, I think the fact that rap is probably the most universally reviled genre (so much so that many musicians do not consider it music at all) speaks wonders about personal diversification and preference. I'm willing to bet I would hate at least 50% of any given persons personal library on this site and vice versa. And I'd generally consider most here to have decent taste.
 
And of course in ten years it will be crystal clear what defined this era and what was taken from it to form the next.

I like my satellite radio

" I think music now is better than ever.  People complain about the state of mainstream music, but it's barely changed.  The stuff they played in the '80s and the '90s on TV and the radio were poop too.  As always, you've just had to look for the good music and today, with the help of the internet, you can find some of the most extraordinary music you've ever heard.  With bands like Radiohead, The Shins, Arcade Fire, Grizzly Bear, Band of Horses, The Strokes, Cymbals Eat Guitars, Spoon, Cold War Kids and literally hundreds more, I don't think you could compare any other era of music with the sheer variety and quality of bands out there. "

It is just the result of the mass production of modern music in such a short time. 
 
To tell you the truth, I feel like tons of bands these days just try to mimic the sound of yesteryear.

I have had this same rant a lot lately. The radio really is rubbish and the fact that as a student if I want to go out with my friends I have to put up with it in clubs. I am much happier listening to my MP3 and enjoying music. 

Step one: Stop listening to the radio. 
Step Two: Start using Slacker or Pandora to listen to the music you actually want to hear. 
 
I haven't heard mainstream music in so long, I am absolutely clueless when it comes to knowing who any of these new singers are.  I like it that way. 

You know that mainstream radio has always been shit right? If you look up the top 10 songs from any other year before 2000 you'll see that they've been mostly forgotten by now.

Damn. You actually listen to rappers I listen to. Never seen that happening.
 
Anyways, the music scene changed the day Soulja Boy stepped in. That's the way I see it.

" Traditional radio is dead and should be considered as such. At it's not that music has changed, it's just that the appeal of the young has shifted. The roots, J Dilla, Aesop Rock, MF Doom, they're all still active. They've simply been pushed underground.   Thankfully we live in a world where last.fm, pandora and slacker radio exist; tools that can bring us music that we consider timeless while introducing us to people who's sound hits the same musical vein. "

This thread again? 
 
The music on the radio is Pop music. It has always been like this, ever since Top 40 radio was invented. It's purpose is for parties, high school dances, and clubs. Everyone wants something dumb and fun they can move their body to. I love Underground Rap too, in fact I've been listening to an Atmosphere album all week, but it's dark, soulful music that really has no place at a party or a dance club.  
 
What we really need is more Indie Radio stations that appeal to people who listen to these types of music. It's the classic "You are not the target audience for this" situation again. The kinds of music you want to hear is not on the radio because Top 40 radio plays Pop music, and people like Atmosphere (while awesome) just aren't Pop music.  
 
As for the T-Pain thing, Auto-tune doesn't make everyone an amazing singer. Auto-tune doesn't give your voice presence. It doesn't give your voice soul. It just fixes your pitch. You still have to be able to sing. Often you'll find that the person using Auto-tune is a talented musician without it, and just uses it because it sounds cool. T-pain writes all his music. He's a pretty good producer too. And as he says in this video, you're "knocking the same shit that feeds [his] kids." Let's not forget that musicians are people, and they have to eat too.  
 
Personally, I've got room for both. Sometimes you wanna just cut loose and listen to something stupid, and I appreciate that there are people out there making music that is fun. A lot of mainstream music has an heir of ridiculousness to it, and that is why. Because sometimes I don't want to be serious, I just wanna listen to a bass-heavy beat and hear about how paid Akon is. 
 
The fact that you can list off a bunch of musicians that you like shows that music is doing just fine. Yes, maybe lyricism is more of a niche culture, but so what? It doesn't make it any less awesome. Why does the mainstream affect how much you enjoy your music?

-_- When it comes down to it, it's the matter of personal taste in music. There is good music out there still, just the matter of finding it.

Don't panic, Nightmare's out. Music is revived.

Someone who says today's music sucks, and that music is their reason to live? Please, go on!

" @Kiemoe: I'm saying that todays mainstream music  sucks,not that all music sucks. "

" Here is the modern music maybe you've heard of it. 

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