if you had to describe the current state of music:
>>132072760raped
post poptimism, Rock is dead, EDM is irrlvant, Hip hop is dying, the only mainstream music is shitty white girl pop like sabrina carpenter and olivia rodrigo, the only other option seems to be really shitty country pop music.The whole zeitgeist just seems to be a bland nothingness of generic pop and country music that no one actually listens to.
>>132072760corporate pop
>>132072760waiting to recover from the damage millennials have done.
>>132072760cucked
>>132072760circus
Check out my reaction video on youtube for the current state of music.
eminently ignorable
>>132072760retarded
Dunno, I listen to maybe half a dozen genuinely new albums a year.
>>132072760Grim.
>>132072760same as the current state of television, movies, and video games:no soul
>>132072760niggerlicious
>>132073091This. Everything is optimizable. Art seems like it should be an exception because it involves human emotion and creativity. But it isn’t. It turns out it can be distilled down into the same formulaic slop as anything else to maximize sales/engagement. So cinema goes from ‘Rosemary’s baby’ and ‘The Seventh Seal’ to capeshit, and popular music goes from Frank Sinatra’s lush vocals, Elton John’s delicate poetry, and Michael Jackson’s master showmanship, to generic corpo-radioslop like Swift, Bieber, Rodrigo, etc. It turns out, in the case of music, you just optimize for teenage girls, which is basically to say the persona of the artist is the only thing that’s really relevant. Seriously, watch a clip of girls at Swift concert. They chimp out like animals. They worship celebrity like flies love shit. All the lyrics can be the most bland pabulum, and the tunes cribbed from whatever small-creator tiktok jingle seemed to catch on recently. So to anyone that isn’t that particular demographic, it comes off as superficial, empty, and self-same. Because they abandoned you a long time ago. All the other demographics combined won’t generate the same revenue for the label conglomerate as little girls/young women will if you just dangle some ‘heckin just like me! diaristic roastoid singing about needing men and also that everything is their fault, in the same breath.
Music feeling boring/bad for long stretches of time is good. era-defining songs that move culture should be rare. exceptionally rare. I don't mind the industry pumping out slop because it makes the gems stand out that much more. The music industry has frozen over since 2022~ it seems. It'll get better towards the end of the 20s
>>132072760murderable
>>132072760Not that bad.Obviously 99% of pure pop and 99% of country pop is but I think rock is doing pretty well (not an applicable statement for the bands playing nu-gaze), even jazz is hanging in there thanks to the old guard. People like to hate Geese, and I can understand why but Cameron Winter and company are bringing Gwenifer Raymond on tour right now, and I love her Fahey on steroids guitar playing.Maybe I'm grading on a bit of a curve because I listened to 90% metal during the 00s and 10s.
>>132072760I think it sucks
>>132072760Pretentious and not in the good way. Way too hard on presentation rather than actual efforts which is why they become forgettable within a week or two.
Electric-guitar combative
It's all coworker music. Corporate pop slop has been dominating ever since 2010s and not in a good way. Poptimism is the status quo now and there are too many stans and shills--it killed music criticism (since music journalism can be easily bought these days) and proper music discussion.
>>132072760Mainstream music is the worst garbage ever.. Horrible rap since the 2000s, boring pop and just rehashed songs
>>132074346>(not an applicable statement for the bands playing nu-gaze)Yeah, nu-gaze is garbage with posers like Wisp being the face of the genre and getting all the credit for "reviving shoegaze" when she's playing a dumbed down version of it. It's mallgaze slop, I tell you what.
>>132072957Hey retard, have you tried NOT listening to *currently popular thing*?
>>132072957Breakcore is still going strong on y2k revival.Some really talented people out there in this space: Cynthoni, Izar, Deathbrain, pisca.
spotify and the timing with covid killed music forever. you have to be blind and deaf to not see the quality and quantity go down immensly from then. there is little to no incentive to make music
