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We had this.
https://youtu.be/QxIWDmmqZzY
We now have this.
https://youtu.be/V_MXGdSBbAI
Over 41 years look how music has changed. Granted these are different genres but directional we can still compare music of different generations.
My thread on hip-hop and then the thread on "If you could only listen to one band" just got me thinking about how much music has changed over the years.
https://youtu.be/QxIWDmmqZzY
We now have this.
https://youtu.be/V_MXGdSBbAI
Over 41 years look how music has changed. Granted these are different genres but directional we can still compare music of different generations.
My thread on hip-hop and then the thread on "If you could only listen to one band" just got me thinking about how much music has changed over the years.
Difference is back then only the best of the best would get enough money to put out records, tour, etc. where as today everyone and their mom can put shit out for the cost of a goodwill guitar and a laptop.
Lynryd Skynryd would be associated as a hate group now a days because of the confederate flag, white band, mostly white crowd. But the music was good.
And the "FeFe" video is okay'd because of it's progressiveness? I'm not sure why. Drug use? Subjugation of women? It's certainly not lauded for it's musical prowess.
So why the extreme disparity over a short amount of time? Is it good or bad? What does that say for society? Really just asking questions because mainstream music has gone to shit. I mean even past that. It's a porta potti of talent at the end of a motocross national. The ones where they don't have enough toilets., That's mainstream music today.
14,794,977 views for Free Bird
158,923,650 views for FeFe
Granted I know that Free Bird has more play time over it's lifetime. That's not really my point.
I'm talking about quality of music.
One is good and considered good.
One is considered lit and is a pile of dog shit in actuality.
The Shop
Back in 1977, Saturday Night Fever sold way more than anything Skynyrd did. Sad but true.
It's funny because that's most likely verbatim what the people who grew up with music of the 40's and 50's said when they heard Lynyrd Skynyrd.
Point in case let us not forget that right alongside the release of Freebird the world was blessed with:
https://youtu.be/sxf2KCSyvgQ
Personally "Fefe" isn't my type of music but I'll be the first to say it's a long ass ways from the worst thing I've heard. They're doing something right, it's connecting with a shit ton of people, and just because it clearly wasn't made for you doesn't mean it's shit.... it just means it's shit to you.
The most talented person in the video is the guy who made the balloons!!!
I've listened to a wide array of music. I span all genres. All years. All generations. I can listen to 40's music on Sirus radio and then switch to Eminem and Dre the next. And then maybe some Sinatra. And throw in some techno when I get blitzed and want to party. I'm used to be all over the map.
Today's mainstream music is the worst shit I've ever listed too...
These singers (not sure what to call them, certainly not artists) are created and produced by marketing teams. Very rarely is the talent what is the driver. It's marketing.
No, it's due to marketing.....
I can make you a taco at home for cheaper and tastes far better. But I'm not the next Taco Bell.
Point in case, why do so many big ass movies that spend millions upon millions flop? Because they’re shitty movies.
You can only polish a turd for so long... and you sure as shit can’t polish a turd into the size of McDonalds or Taco Bell.
Several low budget movies became hugely popular, despite the low budget, Was it because it was a good movie? If so why so popular with such little budget.
Enough said.
Rap never get popular on the radio. Real rap was never played on the radio. I mean long before clean versions, edited versions and over a decade before eminem, 50 cent etc.
Pit Row
Music, to me, is the instruments. The beat, the highs and lows, the flow. There is music that I like, but think the "song" sucks (think disco/techno/dance).
Most good bands/artists put the two together and thrive for more than one album. They just don't get the promotion the "pop" personalities get.
Share the music you like.
Weird show line-up with Ann Wilson opening and Paul Rogers closing with Bad Company and Free songs that were a bit too top 40 for my taste, but there were a lot of people getting off on it.
Yup. Nothing today is any good.
You sure got that right!
Interesting though is the Bass player in this video Keith Christopher joined Skynyrd in 2017
and is their current Bass player...small world.
Not only nice big booties but the ability to earn millions by basically turning nothing into something. Hard working girls who have made themselves famous despite people constantly bitching about them
I think the biggest problem with today’s music is that it is not classic rock?
Although I can’t listen to it, if someone’s making a living playing music they are doing something right
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