No, I'm not saying all modern music is awful, but majority of the music that gets trending is terrible. Yet another girl that twerks for 3 minutes with a trap beat or some crappy awful rap song. Or Ariana Grande talking about another break up in the most boring cliché way possible. I guess since music is easier than ever to produce, now any clown can call themselves an artist.

Just keep in mind... The trending music in past decades was MJ, Madonna, Cindy Lauper, Cher, many, MANY decent to great rock bands and ballads. And I'm not forgetting the rap, rnb and hip hop, 2pac, salt n Peppa, en vogue, NWA, Biggie... There's an objective quality in these artist missing in majority of modern acts.

Hell, I would argue that decent artists from the 2010s like Taylor swift and Drake are getting lazy with their music as well, their songs being more focused on following those trending kids with awful music.

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[–] superkret@feddit.org 28 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Music is so much better than it used to be, it's fucking incredible.
I volunteer at a non-profit youth center. We host a lot of concerts, so basically I have a part time job as a booker.
The quality of the bands who are willing to play for $200 a night (which covers the cost of getting there and back, but not even a bed for the night) is insane!
Half the bands that play there for next to nothing are just as good as any that made it big 20 years ago.
And they're all on Spotify, so you can listen to any band you like as much as you like.

Trending music may suck, just ignore it.

[–] AncientFutureNow@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

$200 was the going rate in 1996. Now it's just greed on behalf of the ones buying talent.

It's all very depressing.