Why does most new music suck?

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....

Goose,

Here are some lyrics from a few Zeppelin songs that has raised a brow or two over the years:

Whole Lotta Love "way down in side, woman, you need love" "I'm gonna give you every inch of my love"

Lemon Song "Squeeze my lemon, til the juice runs down my leg, squeeze it so I fall right out of bed"

Great band though.....

Simao:

That is an Interesting article by Blake. I would say the root cause of all the Cultural losses suffered by black people, was the civil rights movement / Great Society. In order to gain a lot, they gave up a lot. Not deliberate, or by choice, it's just the way societies work.

Where is the great R&B music? It suffered the same fate as the great black Boxers and Jazz players and Blues players and Gospel singers and Writers and Preachers / Churches /Teachers / Schools / sense of community / etc...... They were the price paid for assimilation into the American Mass.

Now they can be just as ordinary and average and uninspiring and boring and untalented as anyone else. They have achieved equality.
They have arrived!

Cheers

The best latest example: The super Bowl Half-Time show. I forgot it before it was even over.