What if it's not new music's fault, that none of it sounds good to you, but instead you've simply lost the ability to emotionally connect with music? Have you tried discovering 'new' music that's already a couple years older? Does any of it click anymore?
>>130658860I like "rage". My little cousin played me Fakemink, I thought the approach was cool.
>>130658872not something to be proud of
>>130658887What are you listening to?
I do think to be fair, the popular narrative of a grand decline in music is overstated, especially when people compare it to the 00s, like, most of the mainstream stuff of the 00s was pretty dire. There was maybe a little bit of variety there I guess, but that isn't really the main thing that matters. The issue is really industry. There's kind of the effect of, authentic musicians, some batches of those musicians got swooped up, others got left behind, then the ones that got swooped up got replaced with even more marketable ones, those ones cannibalize by copying eachother or reviving older stuff but making it more exaggerated and cheap, eventually leading to the thing in question no longer being viable at all, until the next thing repeats the cycle. And that's kind of how you get certain types of music being seen as unserious, because the fundamental way it has been expressed has been beaten and hacked together by people who pretend to care about it, and then it becomes commodified to such an extent that it becomes reduced to noise. And music doesn't have to be super complex and a dick measuring context, and in fact by separating "serious" music, it just means that anything outside of that is just left to rot and stagnate either into a black hole of irrelevance, or be pulverized into slop, and rarely can that bridge be gapped. tl;dr nobody gives a shit about music
>>130658860Eye of the beholderSubjective
>>130658860I am connecting emotionally it's just that those emotions are disgust and hatred
>>130658860If you havent found at least 5 new songs you liked in the last year or so it's absolutely 100% a you problem. You're so trapped into this mindset that music was only good when YOU were young that you're entirely blind to new greatness. As a 27 year old unc i add new music to my playlist every week, music is great. 2026 is a great year for music so far. You're just miserable, old and jaded.
>>130659065right now? Mörkö - IV, but it's for the first time
>be me>grow up a rocker >2010s come around>music industry and critics get infected with the poptimist mind virus>they decide rock and guitar music is dead>they whittle down music into pop and pop rap>music for wiggers and gay men and teen girls>i no longer have any music that appeals to me>hurrr have you tried discovering new music, olvia rodrgio and kpop and benson boon are right there!
>>130658872fakemink is great, especially this onehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B41VJ_6uRKEfound this banger todayhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuQJ4XEKpoUand this one was a highlight for me a few weeks agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO4HGfyI09c
As much as people shit on it, I have found a lot of new and new to me music from Spotify's algo that I like and listen to regularly.
>>130659145>ABMNot something to be proud of
>>130659126But... I'm a zoomer. And younger than you. Also I definitely found 5 songs I liked, that's just not my preferred measurement of music. I'm an album listener and that has been dire.
>>130659188what do you like
>>130659204Currently I don't really like anything, that's the problem. I've run out of music that I haven't replayed to death and finding new things is really not working for me anymore.
>>130659231yeah but like whats the genre you usually listen to
>>130659245All over the place. Some extreme metal, post punk & post rock, whatever falls under shoegaze and slowcore nowadays, maybe some jazz once in a while. Not super familiar with Hip Hop, but not generally opposed. Doesn't really tell you much, I'm afraid, except that I take a lot of it from the internet.
>>130659089No true, the 00s still had some trailing greatness in themIt's the 10s that were abysmally bad
>>130659281okay those arent my kind of genres so i cant help with any recs, i mostly listen to electronic and theres usually at least 2 tracks on the spotify release radar that i like i did like this one recently but got told by some uncs on here that its boring or something so i dunnohttps://youtu.be/PAJxreMSNak?si=WspangwVuGKJBxHJ
>>130659126for me it's not that i really hate any era of music it's that i'm slow about it. i don't really use algorithms or playlists, i think part of it is just having a complex about it and also just wanting to track things down manually.
>>130659326>It's the 10s that were abysmally badonly the late 10s, 2010-2014 was good
>>130659147I guess you weren’t around for all the garage rock revival shit in the 2010s
>>130659327I mean it's nice, just generic. But how much can you get out of one song anyway.
>>130659326I mostly agree, there was some great stuff, I just think a lot of it was just doing things that had been done before but worse. All ideas come from somewhere, that's not the bad thing, the problem was how many times could you make the same albums and songs about "Life is a mess, I like hot chicks haha" imitating it over and over again
>>130658860Yeah I'm an og S a d b o Y so I listen to zoomer ug rap all the time but 2bh I can't help but see the same doomed way of thinking I had throughout my twenties in their lyrics
>>130659351i mean if i find a new song i like then i have the entire discography of that artist to discoveri dont even mind the algo like >>130659163 anon said sometimes you stumble on an artist with like 4000 monthly listeners but its the best music you heard
>>130659147You realize that was exactly because Rock music had been completely turned to shit by then, right? If they didn't want it to die, maybe they should've stopped making the same Post-Grunge, Pop-Punk, whatever the fuck over and over again. The industry can only blame itself. Guitar music is fundamentally pop music, it always was until an arbitrary distinction was drawn that allowed for both to stagnate.
>>130659439This. Rock hasn't seen innovation in decades, it had to go and take a break for a while.
>>130659414>anon said sometimes you stumble on an artist with like 4000 monthly listeners but its the best music you heardthis except it's usually from just doing random digging into influences of things i like. it just so happens that most of the time it's something that doesn't really please any one camp
>>130659439oh yes and pop music is so innovative, hip hop with the same trap beat and mumbling negroids for 15 years straight, white girl pop music where they act like a slut and sing over a synth instrumental that sounds like its from the 80s SO FUCKING GROUNDBREAKINGThis is not to mention country still topping the charts, what i thought you were supposed to be innovative and new hurrrr
>>130659126I'm 22. I look for music constantly and we've been in grim times for fucking years. Only in the last year or two have I felt it's gotten slightly better. If Clipse, Doechii, Kendrick Lamar and all that didn't carry us for the last couple of years we'd all be fucked>>130659147the eternal struggle.got into music in 2017 and this is how's been. I chose to adapt instead and now I live with the consequences. Chose the wigger path to my own peril.
>>130659159ts fye vro fr rockuncs cant handle ts on god twin
>>130658860lol ok try rehash...their debut album is great.
>>130659501see >>130659159
>>130658860So glad none of these things apply to me. I've been obsessed with music my whole life, and I still find brand new things all the time that sound great. The stagnant, "everything's been done before" losers don't realize that the shit they liked was also already done before. Almost nothing emerges of whole new cloth. Everyone's putting their slight spins on things and that's how music develops. If it sounds good, I'm all for it.
>>130659607show us some of your finds then
>>130658860>>130659245Music has sucked since the early mid 90s, possibly even the late 70s. My favorite genre is smooth jazz which was dead by the 21st century (digital production, current synths, and the consolidation of genre stereotypes did a number on it). Another is disco, so I checked modern disco "artists">jessie ware>dua lipa>roisin murphyAll of it worthless junk. Roisin was the closest to actual disco but where's the drum kit? Where's the orchestra? Where's the funk and the soul? You can't compare this to Cerrone or Alec Costandinos. It's lifeless corpse music. Another genre is Baroque compositions. No one is writing anything on par with Bach, Handel, or Scarlatti so that's out the fucking window automatically so how about baroque pop like The Left Banke or Richard Harris?>weyes blood>father john misty>andrea laszlo de simoneAt least the Italian resembles the genre while the other two might as well be AI generated. Andrea is still very ugly and modern sounding. There's no richness or depth because of a lack of studio musicians. It's a pale facsimile of the 60s which itself was a crude imitation of 17th and 18th century elements.What am I supposed to enjoy? Where's the mountain of good modern music?
>>130659159>>130659588Fakemink's whole shtick is late 2000s and early 2010s nostalgia bait. He can be good at it but you can listen to old cloud rap or electronic music from that period and it's a better experience. >>130658872Fakemink doesn't do Rage. See above.>>130659568you mixed up multiple eras and outed yourself. Not telling you how. I've seen enough real wigger slang bullshit of my generation to tell.
>>130658860Why do so many Anons kick and scream like this instead of just admitting mainstream music hit a dull phase?
>>130660790Did I say Fakemink did rage? Maybe work on your reading comp.
>>130660808they don't like themselves and feel they have to differentiate themselves from the group because they see you as an extension or reflection of themselves
>>130660808maybe its time to stop listening to mainstream music, anon
>>130660040>Music has sucked since the early mid 90snot for me :)>What am I supposed to enjoy?electronic music
I find good music all the time that’s new to me. Some of it is new new, some of it is from years or decades past. The difference is that all the good, actually new music I find is very niche. If I find good older music, sometimes it was popular back when it was released and sometimes it was obscure. But if music is both new and popular, its always shit.
>>130660040>Father John Misty >baroque poplolwut
>>130659147Thanks for the greentext, Reddit-kun.
I like new music just fine. There are plenty of very obscure and semi-obscure labels releasing perfectly reasonable and at times interesting stuff - same as it ever was. But if you deny that music in general has become orders of magnitude worse - less compelling, no scenes, no real standouts, endless repetition, clout chasing fucking meme garbage, and dead genres from the past limping along with nothing new to add - then you either beyond cope or a fucking retard, full stop, no exceptions. The fact that I can find some stuff that I like from 2026 is totally irrelevant.
>>130658860have you ever considered your retarded?have you?
>>130665897I was tested for autism when I was 3 years old, but they ultimately determined that I'm not autistic.
>>130665453>plenty of very obscure and semi-obscure labels where do i look
>>130667653Well what do you like? I'll give some paths if I know anything about it. I don't know everything but there's enough variety that I could probably help somewhat
>>130665453this
>>130658860I get into new old music all the time. Still can't stand new new music. It's over.
>>130659177>ABM>Not something to be proud ofWhat's wrong with Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli?
There are some eras that are worse than others. I don't really care for 50s music, it sounds relatively primitive (jazz of the day aged better, but early rock or pop of the era is dated). I was young in the early 2010s but didn't really care for it and preferred 90s music at the time, mid 2010s was a good era for hip hop and electronic music, indie rock started stagnating and declining in that period mid-late 10s but its starting to come back again. early 20s they had that uk scene that was meh and not much else but 2025-26 has some good sleeper stuff if youre looking for that sorta thing, but indie rock peaked late 80s (pixies, replacements era stuff) through 2000s. early 2010s got too big and mainstream and had fame chasing starfucker bands making pop for the grammies, stomp clap hey and all that.
>>130668504theres some good new dubstep
I'm the opposite: I basically only resonate with brand new music. Preferably music that actually attempts to do something interesting, creative, and unique. Which is found much more often in newer than in older music
>>130668516name one song from the past 3 years
>>130665453100% this.I'd love to see anons post what they consider great groundbreaking new music but I won't be holding my breath.
>>130670383Not all music has to break ground to be great.
>>130670405True, so go ahead and post some stuff. I'm about to crash but I'll check it out in the morning.
>>130658860Yeah I got into Wagner this year and my mind was blown. New music is simply worse.
>>130670496And... crickets. Why am I not surprised?
>>130668504every decade of music has its own charm (other than the 2010s), you just have to be open to it
>>130670151>I'm the opposite: I basically only resonate with brand new music. Preferably music that actually attempts to do something interesting, creative, and unique. Which is found much more often in newer than in older musicthanks for the tip, Reddit
>>130660040my beef is i simply don't like electronic sounds or digital production compared to analog sounds or actual instruments like eg. you would find in 50s music. they sound very harsh and unnatural to me, and i've always thought that since i was a kid. imo only the 80s kind of pulled it off because it was still new tech and they were experimenting with it, but after that it's just ear rape.
>>130662577Did I say I do? Reading comprehension
>>130658860You can't make this claim without posting what you consider to be the best new music. Now post what you consider to be the best new music.
>>130670496>>130672035Pointing out a truism when your post implied otherwise didn't obligate me to post anything for you.
>>130672052I think the 2010s had excellent music. In my opinion the 2020s are the clear and obvious worst, even with good stuff out there. Huge impacts from social media, post-covid shit, etc. Death of labels as meaningful curators seems to have occurred for most, but not all, genres. Really bleak out there in spite of occasional good stuff.
>>130672932You had me up until the "death of labels as meaningful curators." What do you mean? Labels still pick what they want to out out there.
