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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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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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bdp24
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Real good post Oregonpapa. I know a guy who compares all new music to the British Invasion era, being absolutely and forever obsessed with it, especially The damn Beatles. He is constantly bemoaning the fact that his favorite style music is no longer in vogue, and can't understand how anyone can like any new music that isn't like it. I, myself, can't understand how anyone our age can bear hearing a The damn Beatles song again, ever. How many times can a person listen to a song of their's before there is nothing more to hear, for God's sake?! Okay, maybe Rubber Soul, occasionally ;-).
electroslacker
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Lowrider57, One of the interesting aspects of the formula is a hook played every seven seconds or less to keep the brain from turning away, which means the product is formulated more for the sensibilities of Skinner Pigeons, rather than tunefulness,meaning, or emotional response.
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