Why does most new music suck?

Wow, this thread has been much more interesting than I first thought it would be. I must strongly agree with Frogman's last post. I especially agree with "We live in a time when standards are being given less and less importance. It is much more important to be "open minded", and to have a strong sense of what is good and what is bad (or what is right and what is wrong), to judge, is looked down upon. I think that is unfortunate, and is a big part of the reason that there is so much bad "pop" music today. " It is as if aesthetics do not matter at all anymore.

Almarg, that's not even in my general "genre" of music, and I thought it was "super tough".

Enjoy the music.

Almarg wrote:

"06-06-13: Almarg

06-06-13: Bryoncunningham
There is a whole continuum of behavior in between hostility and sycophancy. Somewhere in the middle is civility.

Very well said, as usual Bryon. I couldn't agree more.

It has often seemed to me, in fact, that when discussions in internet forums become uncivil, it is often because the parties who are at odds with one another do not seem to recognize that shades of gray, matters of degree, and a continuum between extremes are involved in most issues."

Please. Is that really the case here? In these two pages of responses to Goose's original post, are there really that many people who are unaware of the 50 and more shades of gray inherent in this conversation?

I'm going top reiterate my main point - that despite Bryon's lamenting of its supposed degeneration, this thread has, for the most part, remained civil and productive. There're always be a few ankle-biters amidst the crowd, but you have to ignore them.

Goose wrote:

"I also have a hypothesis that when individuals actually had to play an instrument to make music, there was a greater possibility of something good being produced."

Here's an interesting article about the supposed demise of R&B, by John Blake, an African-American reporter and music critic. He points out that the separation of the artist from the instrument is one of the prime causes of the sweeping trend towards solipsism and self-absorbance in modern R&B.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/12/02/showbiz/music/love-songs

"I must admit that I am shocked! No, really, I am amazed that musical drivel like the recording on the link to "Does THIS suck?" can be thought to do anything BUT suck. "

The publsihed numbers on the video would seem to contradict that.

They indicate many more in fact liked it than not:

Like 460,012 Dislike 13,456

Obviously anyone is free to not like anything, but how can something that so many people like "suck"?

Maybe those who don't like it are in the minority but have the good taste and the other not? OR maybe those who don't like it just can't relate to it for whatever reason?

I think the latter to be the root cause and the musical tastes associated to be a function of the individual's unique perspective of things, which can only subjectively be deemed better or worse than any others.

Just trying to make some interesting conversation....