I don't like pop music either. It sounds like trash to me. In
fact , if you ask me , music from people like erm.. Lady Gaga ,
Rihinna (not sure how you spell it) , Black Eye Peas are just spawn
offs of Trance music in it's 2008 to current state.
The sweeps , supersaws.. Which is considered "outdated" in the EDM
scene already. Hip-Hop , does it still exist? All that's left is
sampled beats and that sample annoying chord progression again.
And it's always the same four chord progressions . Boring.
Lyrically wise , it's always about some sort of love , getting high
, wasted , and.. I can't think of anything else.
Music isn't evolving , it's dying. It's dying because of the
current generation. They don't want complicated , intricate music.
Maybe it's because it's easier to listen to simple music , I don't
know. Personally , modern day music is like.. Eating out at KFC or
other fast food outlets? It's simple , it's fast , it's enough to
fill you up.
It has become a business , a plot. It's no longer an art. All
artists and contract labels want are the $$. I remembered on
American Idol , some rapper ( can't remember who ) made a guest
appearence about a contest where fans write lyrics for his songs ,
and he says something like , "So I ended doing nothing much , just
like always." Just like always. That shows how much singers really
care about their songs , while the rest is done by the producer. If
singers don't care about their songs , you think they will care
about music as an art?
To the OP , I listen to Dream Theater , Opeth , Racer X , Primus
, A7X , Slipknot..
Heavy metal stuff .. Which itself is quite dying away I guess.. But
I actually listen to mainstream bands , since that's where my
guitar level is somewhere at o_0.
I could proceed to talk about how every single genre is dying, but
that would take too long..
