You obviously aren't looking hard enough.  Just because "mainstream" music sucks now doesn't mean that music in general is bad.  I hardly listen to anything older than 90s.  It's not like people stopped being creative after 1970.  The Postal Service, The Killers, Death Cab for Cutie, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Arcade Fire, Bloc Party, Gorillaz, Metric, Modest Mouse...I could go on.  If anything, since it's easier to record and get your music out to the world, there's a lot bigger pool of artists to find music from, meaning in the end you're going to get a lot more good music.  Modern music is the shit.

Thank god for satellite radio.  

Anyone who includes lady gaga in the "good" music category is an idiot with horrible taste.

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Lady gaga's new stuff is quite good imo. Her new song reminds me of ace of base. You might also like eminem's new cd too.

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If that's what counts as "good" then I don't even want to imagine what is bad. I can't listen to "Poker Face" for more than two seconds without wanting to jam a pen into my ear drums. What a useless talentless bitch. The only reason she's famous is because of those retarded music videos. "

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Anyone who includes lady gaga in the "good" music category is an idiot with horrible taste.

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It's so hard to find good music nowdays.  The ease of getting it is why it's hard.  So many bands out there can create so many songs so easily now and put them out independently with technology.   I don't want to listen to any band who isn't signed with a fairly large fanbase.  Doesn't have to be huge like GA GA ,  but a pretty good following.  Why?  I don't want to wade through tons of shitty unsigned bands. Be honest,   there are plenty of unsigned bands that are shitty. Signed  doesn't automatically make you like Ga-ga,  you could be signed to an independent or a smaller label.  They're more likely to sign based upon talent,  because that's what that audience wants.
 
Anyway,  it's harder to find music nowdays  because it's too easy. Ironically,  I just end up listening to bands who I either heard on the radio that are probably from 10+ years ago.  So I completely understand why the OP feels the way he does,  even if it's partly because of nostalgic reasons. There's a reason why radio is as great as it is.  I hate to say it, but without somebody giving me an idea of what the possible good albums are that are out there,  I'm completely  lost.

Honestly, when people say shit like this, they're usually so old the wind would turn them into dust. I don't enjoy music from the 60s, 70s, or 80s. I was born in 1987, and I enjoy music from now. In 50 years I'll probably bitch.
 
More often than not though the people saying crap like this are just super snobby. They probably have a Flo Rida album hidden behind all their 70s crap and preach the downfall of music to anyone who will listen.

Someone needs to strap a bomb to their chest and walk into the department of music at MTV, which is incredibly small now since it's not about music, 
it's about whores and dude bros fucking whores.  Rock, which has been dead for many years, will soon only exist in rock bars in the future.  When old fucks like us
will be bitching about the good old days, and we enjoy the very few last Rock artists.  It's just like Jazz, only exists in a few places now.
 
I have to accept that I will always hate the music that's out now, which is strange because i'm 19, so going by mainstream teenager law, i'm supposed to love rap
 But I don't, I enjoy my parents music.

" It's so hard to find good music nowdays.  The ease of getting it is why it's hard.  So many bands out there can create so many songs so easily now and put them out independently with technology.   I don't want to listen to any band who isn't signed with a fairly large fanbase.  Doesn't have to be huge like GA GA ,  but a pretty good following.  Why?  I don't want to wade through tons of shitty unsigned bands. Be honest,   there are plenty of unsigned bands that are shitty. Signed  doesn't automatically make you like Ga-ga,  you could be signed to an independent or a smaller label.  They're more likely to sign based upon talent,  because that's what that audience wants.  Anyway,  it's harder to find music nowdays  because it's too easy. Ironically,  I just end up listening to bands who I either heard on the radio that are probably from 10+ years ago.  So I completely understand why the OP feels the way he does,  even if it's partly because of nostalgic reasons. There's a reason why radio is as great as it is.  I hate to say it, but without somebody giving me an idea of what the possible good albums are that are out there,  I'm completely  lost. "

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@Djeffers03: There is a reason why they only sold 1000, it's more than a million for lady gaga, it's triple platium. It's not that these indie artist art good, rather it's your taste is obscure, listening to no name metal trash groups no one cares about.  
 
On December 2, 2009, The Fame was nominated for six Grammy Awards and won Best Dance Recording for "Poker Face". The album was nominated for Album of the Year, and won the Grammy Award for Best Electronic/Dance Album at the 52nd Grammy Awards. On February 16, 2010, it won Best International Album at the 2010 BRIT Awards. 
 
I don't see how ppl can think madonna is talented and lady gaga is not. They are both performance artist with catchy tunes and lady gaga is the next madonna.  
 
Maybe it's you who has lousy taste in no name alternative rock music. There is a reason why no one cares about it because maybe it sort of sucks. It's obscure and isn't all that appealing, they are like the noobs of the music industry and honestly deserves to only sell a thousand records because they are nobodies who appeals to nobody. Maybe you have a really bad taste in music, hating on the popular. Your the one who probally hate on good popular movies like avatar too and praise trash no one cares about that didn't make alot of money either, well that's your problem and it's called bad taste, bad taste in music and everything else. You probally play indie games too, idie is small budget trash with less talent. In the rap industry, these ppl are called haters and haters gonna hate on the best.

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I like Lady Gaga.

Having trouble finding good music? Well you might like this

Also, keep in mind, Mozart never sold a single record or won an award for his music.

This thread is stupid. If you honestly can't find anything good that's come out recentely, then that's your problem. If you've only just discovered Beatles, Led Zep, Dylan, etc. then you have no standing in a music debate. You know why? BECAUSE THEY'VE SOLD MORE RECORDS AND ARE MORE FAMOUS THAN ANY OF THE CURRENT ARTISTS YOU MENTIONED. Not all music that's mainstream is bad, and not all new records are terrible. Do you think there's anyone more mainstream than the Beatles? With the exception of MAYBE Elvis, I'd say no.

Mainstream stuff is generally terrible, but I do think modern mainstream is getting worse, or am I getting out of touch with the kids? And their need to rhyme “bling” with “sing”.

Aren't we lucky that there's so much music out there that people who (understandably) don't like new music can delve in to an almost endless back catalogue of music they probably will like, and those of us who (also understandably) are fans of modern bands and more mainstream current music, are treated to an endless stream of music from new talent.