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Why does most new music suck?

Ok I will have some exclusions to my statement. I'm not talking about classical or jazz. My comment is mostly pointed to rock and pop releases. Don't even get me started on rap.... I don't consider it music. I will admit that I'm an old foggy but come on, where are some talented new groups? I grew up with the Beatles, Who, Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Hendrix etc. I sample a lot of new music and the recordings are terrible. The engineers should be fired for producing over compressed shrill garbage. The talent seems to be lost or doesn't exist. I have turned to some folk/country or blues music. It really is a sad state of affairs....Oh my god, I'm turning into my parents.
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electroslacker
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It's literally formulistic. A guy named Max Martin in Stockholm has had 21 number one billboard hits in America because he has a formula. His net worth is around 250 million. He does the instrumentation with the hooks, lays down the vocal track, then sells it to Taylor Swift, Kelly Clarkson, Britney Spears,Katy Perry, Pink, Backstreet Boys, etc with the requirement that they sing it exactly like he did on the demo. He rarely uses real instruments.About a quarter of hits are now coming out of Denmark. There's a book on the whole Denmark music factory, or Google his name with New Yorker.
electroslacker
375 posts
 
Whoops- meant Sweden. The book is, The Song Machine, about the industrialization of songwriting and music production. Good book.
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lowrider57
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Electroslacker,
I googled Max Martin and thanks to you I now know why 90% of new music sucks.

Funny thing, a few years back I was thinking about the sorry state that music was in and that you could substitute any artist's vocal with another artist's music and the end result would be identical.
inna
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I think, there is too much commerce in arts including music. It's off the balance. Business should support arts, not the other way around. When Miles got rich, he started playing mostly what? That's right. Creativity is very much down these days. And computers help.
Sometimes I can spend half a weekend in an effort to find interesting well-performed music on youtube, and I consider myself lucky if I find one track. But when I do find it, the quality of the recording is questinable at best, and if I want to find at least cd, let alone record, I can't.
schubert
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Because the audience for it does as well.
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