Modern day music sucks!

I don't agree with the blanket statement "modern day music sucks", but what intrigues me is that when it comes to the modern popular music scene--the stuff that dominates the charts, the stuff that most high school and college kids are into, etc.--fans no longer seem to be interested in musicianship and creativity in musicianship. (I'm not saying that no one cares about this, or that there are no good bands/artists around, I'm just referring to mainstream, popular stuff).

Most current popular music stars are not known for their musicianship. Although there has always been a percentage of pop stars that weren't known for their musicianship, there was also a large percentage that was known for that by the mid 1960s and throughout the early 1990s, including, of course, Led Zeppelin. (And earlier eras, like the popular jazz eras, also had many stars primarily known for musicianship.) Modern popular music fans do not seem to care about how well their favorite artists and groups can play an instrument. They don't seem to care whether they write music with interesting melodies, chord progressions and song structures.

When I was in grade school (thoughout the 1970s and early 1980s), there were a lot of kids who played some instrument or another. They were often either in bands outside of school or they played in one of the school bands. They almost always cared about the musicianship of popular music. They also spent time educating their non-musician friends about that kind of stuff (not that all of the musicians agreed on what counted as good musicianship, of course, but they were interested in it at least a bit). What happened to that situation? Do kids in grade school not play instruments any longer, or do they not think that people doing creative and skillful things with instruments is more interesting than people not doing that? It doesn't make sense to me, and every time I hear a new popular song that hardly has any harmonic progression or melody, or every time I hear a new guitar-oriented band that's just playing the same old 4/4, three-chord (I, IV, V or something similar), ABABCB kinda-songs, I find it pretty depressing. What happened to creativity, inventiveness, and experimentation in popular music?


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well, you have no idea at all. dumbass.

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well, i don`t like the modern day music, too. the crap of emo-pseudo-rock bands and hip-hop retards is more than unbeareble, i miss the old days of rock, when Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple, Black Sabbath ruled the Charts. I like the proggressive rock of bands like ELP, Genesis (with peter gabriel) or King Crimson. Pink Floyd is just amazing. Prog is so intelligent, it outranks mostly everything that is aired on radio today. but the band wolfmother rebirthed my faith in music, they forced me to look more intenseively for other good music, thats not older than a decade. i found mogwai and Amplifier, a band that i would highly recommend you all to listen, because they are awesome. heavy, but intricate, intelligent and hard-rocking. maybe they are not very accessible at the beginning, but at least the first album kicks ass!

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