«Today’s Lyrics Are Pathetically Bad» Rick Beato

Times change. The poetic zeitgeist of the 60s is gone. The social, racial, and political lyrics zeitgeist of the 80s and 90s is pretty much gone. To @mahgister s point of their not being a "collective positive movement" - well, he’s right. We have become a niche culture in music and just about everything else. And there are few artists that can speak to many different niches. And unfortunately, this thread also exposes the tendency of the older generation to dismiss and be wary of Music they didn’t grow up with.

@tyray

Please link me to some Rap in which melody is as prominent as the rhythmic delivery of the lyrics. 

Rick is pointing out the obvious.Young people in general have a usable vocabulary of a shockingly minute size nowadays.Its not cool or hip to use an uncommon verb or adjective when a ten cent word will do.Just listen to the personas on radio who dont just dumb down vocabulary but ARE dumb and are unable to go into their word bag.Don't get me started.

 People will cast aspersions on Rick or whoever intimates that the past was superior to the present moment.Anyone with ears knows Joni, Paul, and Gordon have no equal.

The impoverishment of vocabulary and the separation of music in narrow niches is a way to control the masses and are not random events...

Corporations pilot education as well as music industry as a manufactured product...

This is implied by Beato observation and not spell clearly...

I am not nostalgic by the way i discovered new genius in music each month.

But they are not in the popular hit parade ...

When i was young anyway i did not listen really much to any popular music, be it Beatles and all groups music, i was in classical music and poetry. If i feel nostalgic of my young years i will listen, Bach , Josquin des prez, Gabrieli, Vivaldi, Léo Ferré a poet, and Ravi Shankar and Moondog and Bob Dylan or Blind Gary Davis with magnificent text lyrics...

I did not had any albums of pop or rock .... Then count me out for nostalgic listening of pop music by old age ...

I discovered Jazz recently 30 years ago...

i was handicapped in my music exploration young because of my exclusive love of music before Mozert,... I discovered Bruckner and Scriabin recently 30 years ago....

Poetry and text in lyrics matter as much to me than music...

It is why i like Kurt Weill so much....