Watched the MTV awards that night


i never realized the music business was in such a big place. All the performers sound alike. It sounds like they all have the same recording engineer. There is no individuality to any of acts. It's all just a formulated mess.

I am so thankful I grew up a time when there were great musicians and singers and songwriters. They say progress is good but it didn't work out that way in the music business.
taters
Taters -
Don't despair, all is not lost…you just have to go to small, independent labels. Forget "mass media"...turn off, tune out and drop in:

e.g., Darla, Denovali, Flau, Ghostly, Kitchen, Kranky, Temporary Residence, Tooth & Nail to name a few.

Lots of talented musicians and original sounding stuff to be found on these.

A great portal to much excellent music is the review site, “A Closer Listen”.
I watched most of it. I'm an old fart but enjoy music of most any genre. While I hadn't listened to much of what I heard on the show before last night, one artist "the Weekend" really put on a fantastic performance. Find it somewhere and listen to it. I don't think that you'll be disappointed and just maybe you'll listen a second time, as I did, because he was that good(imho).
Ghosthouse, thanks for "A Closer Listen" I looked it up and thought it looked familiar. Looked in my favorites and there it was, 21 from the top, and I forgot it was there. It's good to refresh the brain every now and again...