The Real Reason Why Music Is Getting Worse!!

Contemporary art, in this case music, has always had critics and detractors regardless of genre. This has always been true and will be so, then, now and in the future.  Even Mozart had his critics who described his music as “harsh, too complex, overloaded and even boring”.   I’m a “baby boomer” whose love of music has grown with me to appreciate all genres.  Many of the lyrics are the “poetry” of our times and the artist’s life experience. For that I am appreciative. 
Enjoy the music. 

A lot of modern music is catchy, tuneful, danceable, and memorable.

 

It’s also pure crap production-wise. It’s pitch corrected, auto-tuned to an inch of its life, quantized without fail and is mechanical and lifeless.

Let’s now add artificial "drums", synthesized guitar, a bunch of programmed loops and every Pro-Tools "plug-in" imaginable and it becomes a certifiable dumpster fire.

 

Case in point is Billie Eilish. I love her songs. However, her music is almost un-listenable, production-wise. On a bluetooth speaker across the room it’s fine. On anything approaching hi-fi it’s a complete mess.

 

That’s my reason why modern music is garbage. It’s good songs ruined by crappy production.

We cannot deny that there is as much musicians of genius today as in the past...

It is evident,...

It is evident also that corporations manufacture the singers, the musicians the public and the product to some great extent and sometimes completely way more today than by the past ...

 

It is also evident that there is music garbage very well done in a professional way in the past as today...

It is evident than there is garbage not so well done yesterday as today...

 

 

Yes i am an old dude complaining as Beato did...So what ? I like his sincerity by the way...

But i just wrote a precise sociological argument : Manufacture of singers,musicians,products and especially manufacture of many, many niches products for an atomized public reduced in tribes by corporation fine tuning the medias which they control pretty well...The listeners and the public is then manufactured also and way less homogenous than 80 years ago.

Then there is way less place for the artist creativity and originality if he want to eat, he must choose between integrating a machine in some niche or goes independent.....

An artist who became a machine is at risk to loose his genius... Some can survive to this by developing big turn at 90 degree in their style, but you must be a genius to let your created loving public behind your race toward your own musical goal as Bob Dylan was able to do and some others, freeing themselves... Madonna is the same machine as she was since the beginning.Big talent no genius.

 

 

When Beato talk about how easier it is to make music today, he say the same thing than me about "manufacturing" everything even the artist.

Talking shit about Beato will not change this fact...

The grumpier dude here are perhaps not me nor Beato but those who do ad hominem attack instead of "thinking" ...

Technology made everything easier at the cost of replacing human imperfection by a perfect mechanization of our gestures. This is Beato point. And he is right.

Machine perfect gesture kill art expression because it kill the subtle very meaningful microdynamic controlled imperfection which is the breathing of art.

I bet those who disparaged Beato video as a Grumpy man rant did not listen the video accurate content or worst dont understood his points..

 

 

His last point : music is too easy to consume nowadays and it may destruct some of his value it for sure right...

It make music a product as anything else not a revered sacred creation which we must work hard to own. Then it motivate the producers to produce more garbage to consume in the continuous " faucet" of Spotify or other medias.

 

Beato video is excellent and on the point...

 

 

Pop music has been on a pretty steady downward spiral for 100 years now.

It's been 54 years since the Beatles  stopped making music.  That late 60s early 70s period would probably qualify as the renaissance period of adult rock and roll. Young people today who are exposed to the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Zeppelin, the Who and others often regard one of them as among their favorite bands--usually Beatles or Zep

I listen to music every day and buy a significant amount of current fare. I admire and listen to countless new stuff- Taylor ( very good although the lyrics are usually directed toward female sensibilities), Chappel Roan, Killers, 21 Pilots, Billie Eilish to name a few as well as new country and Americana (too numerous to mention). I enjoy a lot of current music, but I do not believe the vast majority will be something that be listened to 50 years from now. I'm not talking about a song here or there--I'm talking about an artist.

So, despite the fact that every generation has its own music, I do think that as a rule, the music of the late 60s - early 70s is "better", that is, appeals to a wider array of people and generations than the music of today.