The Real Reason Why Music Is Getting Worse

[Coelacanth]

This thread is going in the totally wrong direction. It's about what sucks about modern music, the reason why music nowadays is mostly crap. It's not a thread to talk about your favorite/overlooked artists. ;)

 

[Triplegreen500]

This thread is going in the totally wrong direction. It's about what sucks about modern music, the reason why music nowadays is mostly crap. It's not a thread to talk about your favorite/overlooked artists. ;)

well maybe music as a whole just doesn't suck. Certain genres are crap, sure - but as someone working in the business, I can say they are a definite minority.

 

[Coelacanth]

Going back to my previous post, I think much of modern maintream music sucks because there have been so many modern technological and electronic advancements that have been a crutch to people who have to autotune to sound like they can sing, or synthesize instruments that they no longer need to learn to play and master, or patch together compositions in a way that it's almost effortless to compose a song, but contributes to a laziness in song creation...alluding to my aforementioned point about most songs nowadays simply cutting off and ending without a proper outro. At least in the past, the lazy way to end a song was to simply fade out, but at least that's better than just having a song end abruptly because the synthesizer patch came to an end.

 

[Speedbird]

ANYONE??? People are lying. HERE is the PROOF.
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[Coelacanth]

That was an interesting, though hardly surprising, video. They've been lying to us for decades. And it's hardly just the vocals. I wonder how much of this was actually played by the musicians, let alone Ashley Simpson?



How about Milli Vanilli?

 

[YY1]

Fade out endings are very hard to do live.

In fact, most songs that fade on a recording are ended on a "big note" live.

 

[Coelacanth]

Fade out endings are very hard to do live.

In fact, most songs that fade on a recording are ended on a "big note" live.

You got it. And this is what annoys me with most modern recorded music, it just ends when the last synth patch ends...before even the "big note", bass-drum-cymbal-crash, or more thoughtful outro, should happen. So damn lazy and uninteresting.