Non-Urban Music What has music come to these days?

Salar

The One, The Only
#1
These days i turn on the radio and it seriously hurts to listen to the music. It's as if i'm hearing the same song over and over again for the past year. There are some good songs there but most of it is just nonsense. I don't know if it's the radio stations, recording companies or what, but to me new-age music is just bullshit.
Rappers talk about the same shit all the time about how good they are, how much money they have, who they fucked or who they hate (just peruse through the streethop forum, all i hear is beef beef and more beef).
R&B is just the same thing, either a 13 year old singing about things that he or she has never been through, or just the same old breakup song, love song that has lost all meaning because the lyrics are just as good as the poetry i wrote in grade 6 (aka, SHIT)
Rock, don't even get me started on rock. It seems that all the songs are just the same. It's the same thing. There was a phase where all the songs released were on breaking up with a girlfriend, then now it's a love phase, and that's it. There's no real music talking about anything different.
Dance, house, techno trance seems to be no where these days too. What happened to the days of binary finary 1999 and rober miles children. about 15 of the the top 20 songs are remixed 70's/80's song and that's a fact.

What's happend to music?
What happend to the days where rap was rap. Songs like Nas - I can, BTNH - Cross roads, pac and biggie, Run DMC. The only good rap/hiphop artist i can really and truly listen to is outkast because they are ORIGINAL.
R&B, what happend to good music like aaliyah, Shai, Boys II men, R.kelly (pre space jam) and Soul for real.
Rock just died in 95. Plain an simple, a few good songs have come out but in reality, it's pretty much dead.
And house/euro/dance and trance was peaking thorough out the 90's and died in 2001.

It seems that music was peaking in the late 60's. Late 70's, 80's (sort of came and went) and early 90's.
It seems that the recording companies are just concerned with the money and release the same old bullshit over and over again, or maybe i'm just getting old and i don't understand or i can't adapt to this new revolution in music.

To me it's really not about the music any more and it's just about them money. I truly and deeply feel sorry for the kids that are growing up today and are missing out on what music really was. I hate the fact that people think that Universal Nations are the one's that brought out of touch, when the original was released in the 80's. And the same goes for Midest touch and star to fall.

What's happened? Is it me or has it all just gone to shit?
 

FroDawgg

Well-Known Member
#2
i agree with you...mostly the only radio stations i listen to are oldies, which is saying alot cuz i love rap, but most new rap (that they play on the radio--Trillville, Lil Jon, etc) sucks. but oldies are great...the artists had passion and, unlike many artists now, talent
 
#3
i turn on a radio station and they are either playin 50 cent-candy shop, disco inferno/ eminem-mockingbird. when i hear an r&b song they just play tha same shit song over and over.
 
#4
just repetitive stuff and its all the same artists,topics and sometimes even beats.....expect a even bigger decline sooner or later...

expect new and up and coming artista with severly ugly ass names too.
 
#5
i thought i didnt need t.v, too much shit on it, manipulation wise, still havent watched for a year, lifes good, i download my essential shit, 'pimp my ride' etc and i dont have to put up with the music on t.v, im more rap based now i havent got tv telling me whats hot and whats not, im not saying ban tv, its just they have the potential to put great artists that are trying to reach you, but instead they play 50 cents candy shop..

the other day i caught snoop and justin on tv and i was blown away....i was like...whats snoop doing? and i agree that music in general has decreased in quality...they exchanged it for quantity
 
#6
2pac4prez2004 said:
i thought i didnt need t.v, too much shit on it, manipulation wise, still havent watched for a year, lifes good, i download my essential shit, 'pimp my ride' etc and i dont have to put up with the music on t.v, im more rap based now i havent got tv telling me whats hot and whats not, im not saying ban tv, its just they have the potential to put great artists that are trying to reach you, but instead they play 50 cents candy shop..

the other day i caught snoop and justin on tv and i was blown away....i was like...whats snoop doing? and i agree that music in general has decreased in quality...they exchanged it for quantity

snoop sold out, he's mainstream.
 

Nut

New Member
#7
Music = shit nowadays and not just rap music. If you look at artists like Rick James, Ray Charles, James Brown, Barry White, Michael Jackson, Isley Brothers etc. They made / make good music and i think there will never be music like that in the future. I haven't listened to the radio a lot caus it just sucks and if i turn it on i just listen to radio stations that play oldies. Nowadays everybody's just copying, nothing is original, it's ALL about the money, the media plays a big role in destroying music in general etc.and because of that I believe music is heading towards doom because and is in a depression right now which it maybe can never get out of...
 
#8
It's nice to look back on the past and pretend that all music was good, that all artists were talented, that every time you turned on the radio you heard a classic song. Nostalgia tends to forget the bad parts and glorify the good parts. People will be saying the same thing about the 00s in ten, twenty years.

There are some amazing artists making music right now. You won't hear them just by turning on the radio, you might (God forbid) have to make the effort to find them.

Look at the Billboard album charts:
Beck, Jack Johnson, Green Day, The Killers, Queens of the Stone Age - all in the top 20.

Look at artists like Devendra Banhart, Antony and the Johnsons, Rufus Wainwright, Iron and Wine, The White Stripes, Brendan Benson, Damien Rice, The Go! Team, Coldplay, Interpol, Bloc Party, The Zutons, Franz Ferdinand, Snow Patrol, MF Doom, Saigon, Immortal Technique, Canibus, Kanye West, Papoose, Madlib, Murs, Sage Francis, Jean Grae...

I hear amazing music by amazing artists every single day. Don't be so lazy.
 
#9
The_One said:
These days i turn on the radio and it seriously hurts to listen to the music. It's as if i'm hearing the same song over and over again for the past year. There are some good songs there but most of it is just nonsense. I don't know if it's the radio stations, recording companies or what, but to me new-age music is just bullshit.
Rappers talk about the same shit all the time about how good they are, how much money they have, who they fucked or who they hate (just peruse through the streethop forum, all i hear is beef beef and more beef).
R&B is just the same thing, either a 13 year old singing about things that he or she has never been through, or just the same old breakup song, love song that has lost all meaning because the lyrics are just as good as the poetry i wrote in grade 6 (aka, SHIT)
Rock, don't even get me started on rock. It seems that all the songs are just the same. It's the same thing. There was a phase where all the songs released were on breaking up with a girlfriend, then now it's a love phase, and that's it. There's no real music talking about anything different.
Dance, house, techno trance seems to be no where these days too. What happened to the days of binary finary 1999 and rober miles children. about 15 of the the top 20 songs are remixed 70's/80's song and that's a fact.

What's happend to music?
What happend to the days where rap was rap. Songs like Nas - I can, BTNH - Cross roads, pac and biggie, Run DMC. The only good rap/hiphop artist i can really and truly listen to is outkast because they are ORIGINAL.
R&B, what happend to good music like aaliyah, Shai, Boys II men, R.kelly (pre space jam) and Soul for real.
Rock just died in 95. Plain an simple, a few good songs have come out but in reality, it's pretty much dead.
And house/euro/dance and trance was peaking thorough out the 90's and died in 2001.

It seems that music was peaking in the late 60's. Late 70's, 80's (sort of came and went) and early 90's.
It seems that the recording companies are just concerned with the money and release the same old bullshit over and over again, or maybe i'm just getting old and i don't understand or i can't adapt to this new revolution in music.

To me it's really not about the music any more and it's just about them money. I truly and deeply feel sorry for the kids that are growing up today and are missing out on what music really was. I hate the fact that people think that Universal Nations are the one's that brought out of touch, when the original was released in the 80's. And the same goes for Midest touch and star to fall.

What's happened? Is it me or has it all just gone to shit?

:thumb: The truth is..is not music..is US..BLACKS...BLACK PPL IN AMERICA..back in the 70's, and 80's and 90's where music/rap/rnb was real..it was what it was because we was BLACKS in america..basically we aint had enug rights..so we was fightin for our rights thru music..but now everythin is glamoriized so we think like white folks..n we got some rights n we abusin it..n that reveals itself thru our music..fashion..tv shows..movies..n everythin..peep back in the dayz movies..it was about our history...the struggle..n what been black is about..but now is about fashion..i mean only black folks gon make a movie called 'soul plane'...wtf...all we talk/rap/act about these dayz is sex,fashion,money,and woman..cus thats the black american in the new millenium..is like blacks dont wanna b blacks..but o well thats ma view..if u dont like it fuck u too
peace
 

Salar

The One, The Only
#11
Self96 said:
:thumb: The truth is..is not music..is US..BLACKS...BLACK PPL IN AMERICA..back in the 70's, and 80's and 90's where music/rap/rnb was real..it was what it was because we was BLACKS in america..basically we aint had enug rights..so we was fightin for our rights thru music..but now everythin is glamoriized so we think like white folks..n we got some rights n we abusin it..n that reveals itself thru our music..fashion..tv shows..movies..n everythin..peep back in the dayz movies..it was about our history...the struggle..n what been black is about..but now is about fashion..i mean only black folks gon make a movie called 'soul plane'...wtf...all we talk/rap/act about these dayz is sex,fashion,money,and woman..cus thats the black american in the new millenium..is like blacks dont wanna b blacks..but o well thats ma view..if u dont like it fuck u too
peace
please tell me you were joking
 
#12
The_One said:
please tell me you were joking
Nah Nah, I think Self96 was onto something. Maybe he just didn't say it the right way, or i agree with him on a slight variation of his theory. I THINK what he's saying, and what I believe is that if you look at NWA, They were rapping about stuff no one had heard b4, They were rapping about how the ghettos were, racism, the cop issues; riots and the whole "41 shots" things were goin on. I'm not saying racism has dissapeared. But now it's like... When old rappers were laying it down, you knew that that was how they lived, that's what their life was about and they were letting their emotion out threw their songs. Today, you can't help but feel people are just taking advantage of this "formula" for music. Also on all spectrums of music it's becomign more and more a connection thing. If you get the right connection you can make a record. Why does J-lo get to sell millions of records and techn9ne is barely surviving off his records. BS connections. Fakers, the past didn't have as many fakers.
 
#13
it has come to this

i know it too. Ive heard eminem before, but i really like some of his songs. Stan was a really original song, and really chill too. peace, and keep the pac alive in the stereos
 

Salar

The One, The Only
#15
ok, as i've said before, there are only FEW artist that are keeping the music alive.
In hiphop mos def, the roots and outkast
in rock, evanesense, greenday oasis, coldplay, Radiohead, audioslave etc
in dance chemical brothers are still doing what they do best
i don't deny this,
But these are just a few bands compared to the plethora that is out there. And yes in the 90's there were plenty of bad artists but not this many.

Just listen to the radiohead interview done by launch and what they think of music. It is just SOOOOOOOOOO true.
It's the video link. Just go.. please
http://search.music.yahoo.com/search/?m=all&p=radiohead&x=0&y=0
 

Flipmo

VIP Member
Staff member
#16
It's a newer generatio of music that is hitting the radio waves now. It's for the newer generation of boys and girls to distinguish tmeselves to. To us it's horrible, for them it's the bomb.....









God save us...
 

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