What is modern music actually like?

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HardwareRabbit 12 Aug @ 2:41pm

I am a bit out of touch to some degree with things (I would think) and it seems like a lot of the modern music scene (at least, the mainstream stuff) seems to be crappy hip-hop. Only other thing I could think of would be that music relatively tied to fandom culture. I think this would include fan songs (or perhaps nerdcore) like the living tombstone and official soundtracks of stuff popular online.

Am I wrong?

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xBCxRangers 12 Aug @ 2:43pm

You are not. The music, if we can even call it that, is trash.

Stick with 60's thru the 80's. Once you hit the 90's, all depressing and downhill from there.

Electric Cupcake 12 Aug @ 2:44pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voqCQSDAcn8

EASY PETE 12 Aug @ 2:44pm

Mostly voice synthesised and filtered and written with AI

HardwareRabbit 12 Aug @ 2:46pm

Originally posted by xBCxRangers:
You are not. The music, if we can even call it that, is trash.

Stick with 60's thru the 80's. Once you hit the 90's, all depressing and downhill from there.

Eh... I don't personally agree to some degree with that... There are some songs from the 90's and 2000's I liked...

Ice Robertson 12 Aug @ 2:49pm

The maestro said it's Mozart but it sounds like bubblegum.

-Leonard Cohen.

Chaosolous 12 Aug @ 4:01pm

It’s AI.

HardwareRabbit 12 Aug @ 4:02pm

Originally posted by Chaosolous:
It’s AI.

All AI?

Alamort 12 Aug @ 4:07pm

Originally posted by HardwareRabbit:
Originally posted by Chaosolous:
It’s AI.

All AI?

A great deal. And I will be purging a few entries from my vast library when they least expect it.

superblake_ 12 Aug @ 4:07pm

Originally posted by HardwareRabbit:
Originally posted by Chaosolous:
It’s AI.

All AI?

No not all modern music is ai.

HardwareRabbit 12 Aug @ 4:23pm

Originally posted by superblake_:
Originally posted by HardwareRabbit:

All AI?
No not all modern music is ai.

(Of course... that is silly of me!) How much of it though?

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tom turnip head 12 Aug @ 5:24pm

Mainstream music has always mostly sucked. Low effort and formulaic with the widest appeal possible. It has nothing to do with the time period.

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Fake 12 Aug @ 5:25pm

AI music is getting pretty good. Seriously.

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Joe Cool 12 Aug @ 5:33pm

This ties in to what my friend and I were talking about the other day.

Culture seemed to stop evolving after the 90's.

Look back at each decade from 1900 onward, and you can very easily see the distinctive style of their clothing, music, shows, etc.

The 70's looked nothing like the 80's, which looked nothing like the 90's, and so on.

However, once you get to the 2000's, it all seems to stop. Music, fashion, shows, all of it has remained pretty much the exact same ever since. A song or movie or fashion from 2005 is indistinguishable from a song or movie or fashion from 2024.

Brand new songs today sound pretty much exactly the same as songs that were brand new in 2001. The style didn't evolve at all.

I blame social media.

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