Useful heuristic for life: if you catch yourself expressing ideas similar to these, probabilistic chances are that you are wrong:
👉 “Music nowadays is rubbish.”
👉 “Young people today don't know how to have a good time.”
👉 “Kids are not interested in anything now.”
👉 “The media has become all uniform and partisan — not like in my youth.”
👉 “Where are commitment, creativity, rebellion in these days?”
👉 “This generation will have it worse than my generation.”
“Music nowadays is rubbish”?
@tripu maybe not rubbish and not all of it, but I miss the LP approach instead of just releasing singles. Whole different experience. Moreover, it seems to me that too many artists are releasing covers, samplers, remastered versions... And there were have this wave of reggaeton music.
Am I too old? 😂
It seems so 😆
Now there’s more freedom, more technical possibilities, better access to previous art, and more connections between artists. In principle it’s difficult to see how that would be bad for art.
Musicians now do covers and remixes and release single songs and do reggaeton, yes… but they also publish four-hour-long conceptual albums, record in acoustic, perform using virtual avatars, sing duets with singers who are long dead, invent new genres, etc. There’s just all that there used to be, plus a lot more.
Perhaps, if anything, it becomes more difficult for #music lovers to find the gems among the rubbish. But gems there still are.
@tripu I wouldn't change a comma of what you said, especially the last part.
@tripu one thing I've found out about it is that having a Spotify account I've been able to listen to new songs every Friday, so I can say I'm up to date regarding to music. And yes, you find some gems every now and then.
@tripu that one about the music... That's a fact.