It isn't. Pop music was, for me, so much worse from 1995-2005 or so than it has been since. Why do you think I got into Jane's Addiction? It's because I hated the Pearl Jam/Creed bullshit ripoffs and the Avril Lavigne shit and got tired of Eminem. (Not to mention Green Day and Coldplay... who, by the way... are not currently all that big... Pandemonium is about 5-10 years off base).Essence_Smith wrote:Every generation basically hold the perspective that the younger one doesn't have music that's as good, yadda yadda...but there's definitely a difference now even with pop music...I remember kids being excited when Biz Markie's "Just A Friend" was in the top ten in the Billboard charts years ago because in those days it was rare for ANY rap song to get that kind of play...now the pop charts are pretty much rap songs...rock music is not what it once was...I don't even think of the 80's and 90's as a "Golden Age" for rock based music...the best, most innovative stuff imo was hip hop at the time and was always a kid looking backwards at the 60's and 70's and even early 80's music during the 90's...I still do...but from the perspective of a musician, the business is different...it has changed the audience of popular music imo...and to be honest I LOVED Madonna and Cyndi and Metallica...I also loved Depeche Mode, the Peppers, Metallica alongside Krs One and Public Enemy and shit even Shabba Ranks and Supercat...I don't know if the general public is the same or worse than they ever have been but I think its actually worse...the pop music back in the days I could get into...nowadays it seems like pop music is more sexualized than ever, etc...I think its quite different...Adurentibus Spina wrote:... What the hell... I didn't even live through half the 80s... you did... and ... you're totally in that silly "Golden Age" thinking...Pandemonium wrote:Not nearly to the degree it is now. All I have to say is when was the last time you saw a rock band have a #1 single or album? Up through the last decade, it happened all the time even though there was the occasional brainless pop act dominating the charts a few months here and there.Adurentibus Spina wrote:What. The. Fuck?!I don't think the younger audience is looking for as much substance in their music as we did
... "the younger audience" in the 80s listened to Madonna and Cyndi Lauper, not Joy Division and Jane's Addiction... you guys were music nerds. Music nerds today are exactly the same as you were. The general public is exactly as vapid as it's always been.
http://www.musicimprint.com/Chart.aspx?id=C000156
What has #1 singles/albums got to do with anything, anyway? The music industry is dead. But it was when people realized they could tape the radio, too.
But Pop music is ALWAYS terrible. And it's cyclical, and it's always the same four-chord, repetitive chorus/verse shit.