A win for flabby set: Old music represent 70% of U.S music market

[2 Up 2 Down]

This is the answer. Music should reflect the times.

Which is exactly what todays music reflects… Ignorance

There is a lot going on in the world similar to the 1960s but the younger popular artists don't have it in them to make anything meaningful

 

[CashmereThoughts]

I would've said this was cap but have 14 yr old lil cousins and their friends who bump nothing but 90s r&b and house hiphop. These apps like spotify be recommended nothing but those too

Them algorithms know what music people actually listen too and not skip. Labels will catch on a few years from no low and try to adapt

 

[mykey]

True music heads saw this coming years ago, like the captain of the Titanic saw the iceberg on horizon.

Trade Fats Waller, Big Mama Thornton, Duke Ellington, Louis Jordan, Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, Little Richard, Aretha Franklin, James Brown, Miles Davis, the Jackson Five, Chaka Khan, Donna Summer, Prince, Patrice Rushen, Roberta Flack, Earth, Wind & Fire, Parliament Funkadelic, Herbie Hancock, The Commodores, all of Motown, all of Stax, all of Philadelphia International, Bill Withers, Chic, Bob Marley, The Isley Brothers, Teddy Pendergrass, Anita Baker, Mtume, Marvin Gaye, Luther Vandross, Whitney Houston, Stephanie Mills, Kurtis Blow, Run-DMC, Whodini, Public Enemy, Eric B & Rakim, New Edition, The Fugees, Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, LA & Babyface, Outkast, Usher, Kanye West -- for 30+ years of minimal, original music creation focused on promoting gang warfare, drug dealing, and sex work.

We had roughly 100 years of constantly creative, amazing, popular Black music expression: 1890 -1990.

It is over.

When Jazz first came out the white people called it "Jungle music", Rock & Roll was "N*gger music"..so what u sayin?

 

[Wear My Dawg's Hat]

When Jazz first came out the white people called it "Jungle music", Rock & Roll was "N*gger music"..so what u sayin?

What does the 100-year creative drive of our people have to do with white opinions?

Is this constant "centering" of white people a Real nikka Generation obsession?

 

[Take It In Blood]

Auto tune killed black music

 

[BlackAchilles]

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[boxfullofjoel]

That whole tin sounding Swizz Beatz track, with a bunch of talk about absolutely nothing at all.

It’s funny he posted that song in particular because I hold nikkas like Jay-Z and Swizz Beatz very much responsible for removing the soul and funk aesthetic from hip hop and promoting that money over absolutely everything mentality in the culture.

Then after destroying the integrity of our culture (making it passé to rap about community upliftment, knowledge of self, black pride…what hip hop was built on) these fakkits turn around and want to get all “sophisticated” by promoting European art to poor black people, making them feel even worse subconsciously about their place in the world.

As a Jay-Z fan I totally agree he did create the lane to using rap as "business vehicle" for alot of less talented hustler turn rappers .

Mixed that with the emergence of simple music making shortcuts like: focusing on melodies, hashtag rap, ad libs, auto tune and simple trap beats over lyricism .

You have to wonder if there will be a a turning point for hip-hop tho? . Because streaming really highlights how mediocre the current music is.

Are we going to see a lyricism renaissance? as the current younger audience matures.

 

[NinoBrown]

I've said it before, and I'll say it again...You can take new jack swing from my cold. dead. hands!!!


It was a wrap when Mary J is sampled in a target commercial a couple years ago

She didn't get paid for that, they used another singer to avoid paying her royalties since she didn't write the song or own the publishing.

 

[Days of Future Piff]

I’ve been saying for the longest that modern music is mostly trash. Every song you hear these days has the same four chords.

Compare that to the old school era… In the 70s/80s you had Earth Wind and Fire, Queen, Pink Floyd, Marvin Gaye, Parliament, Steely Dan, Rick James, Zapp and Roger, the Gap Band, the Police, Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, Prince, Chaka Khan, Whitney Houston, Luther Vandross, etc.

The originality and talent were on a whole different level back then.

…and shout out to Japanese City Pop. Tatsuro Yamashyta

 

[DapMeUp!]

This is also why 1980s Jpop (Citypop) is popular. That music slaps:









Some damn good night driving music.

Damn this shyt cold

That Anri bop Might have to go on a binge if Japan got bops like this

 

[tuckgod]

There is a lot going on in the world similar to the 1960s but the younger popular artists don't have it in them to make anything meaningful

No real life experience.

We’ve been coddling children since the 90s.

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

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[MisterMajesty]

The best new music is electronic and indie


R&B had its time …


Apologies to all

The best new music is electronic and indie


R&B had its time …


Apologies to all

Where I start?

 

[George's Dilemma]

I listen to music mostly from 60s, 70, 80s, 90s, than anything else. New music to me is discovering a garage band from the 60s. Modern music to me is largely trash. I was listening to CMW last night. Listening to that and then trying to listen to modern West Coast rappers, there's no comparison.

 

[Ol’Otis]

So old heads tell me

When did music become trash

What decade

Late 90s