I have very few bands that I’ll listen to just about anything they have. I dapple in bands like Guns and Roses, Bowling for Soup, or AC/DC where I listen to their popular stuff just because I know it and it’s of a style I’m in a mood for
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Would I be a boomer if I said I hate today’s music? I avoid recommended like COVID. Everything I likes either Japanese or English covers; maybe some 90s stuff too and various non mainstream stuff.
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Yes, but don’t worry, I’m a boomer too.
Not exactly. I don’t like most mainstream music, but I don’t write it all off just because it’s mainstream.
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Same here. And I also don’t like rap just because “rap bad boo >: (“ but mostly due to the super excessive vulgarity whereas in most of my music if there’s cussing it’s one or two words a song
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yep. All of the songs I like that have clean raps are some of my favorite songs of all time.
Not necessarily a boomer, but there isn’t such a genre as “today’s music”. It’s easy to write off an entire era based on generalizations, but people have been doing that forever. Rock and roll was once maligned, and many early reviews of the Beatles were negative and assuring that they were a fad with silly kids. Mostly the popular music from the past has filtered through the bad stuff over the years, and I think, given a few more decades, music of the early 21st century will be viewed in much the same way.
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That’s a way to put it. The very little I’ve heard is the same 5 songs on repeat at work. Don’t know what station it is but I’ve heard the holy song way too many times.
I used to have that outlook too, but as my musical tastes broadened, that bias eventually disappeared. With some exceptions, I generally don’t pay much attention to lyrics; it’s more about how the song flows together as a whole.
huh, that’s interesting. I’d sacrifice flow for good lyrics.
Obviously the best songs are the ones that are both meaningful and artistic.
Friday was a mild bop.
Call it corny, but I like corn 
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It definitely wasn’t the worst of that period of cheap teenager music videos.
I don’t like drivers license
at all
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Looking back, I can’t understand why hating on certain bands and musicians is so popular. Anti-fandoms will always be a thing, but why spend your free time absolutely trashing something that will lose relevance in a few years anyway?
Most of Nickelback’s songs sound the same to me, but are they really one of the worst bands of all time? And while Justin Bieber was one of those manufactured stars designed to appeal to pre-teen girls, all the anger around this one kid now seems bizarre and borderline disturbing.
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On the second point I think a lot of it is just being overexposed in a bad way let alone not helping with some celebrities ego problem adding to the hate. Then there’s the vocal fans that are just naturally hatable. It’s like some series like supernatural with their fandoms; just shut the h up and enjoy the thing.
That said people can also have opinions about what music is bad and good, but yes.
What if there are things about it that make it unenjoyable then?
Well you know what I mean. Those obsessed kind of teenage girls that practically ruin everything. No we don’t care about your fantasies and in fact you’re ruining it for everyone by not shutting up.
If they annoy you just engage with them I guess. You shouldn’t really make that generalization.
In the rock era, the 60s had the best hits, the 70s had the best albums, and overall, with many exceptions, the mainstream has been going downhill ever since.
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Sounds about right. I mean in a few generations who’s really going to remember trend celebs like billy eyelash? I feel like most new artists now will either be forgotten or go out the brittney way. It’s like onision; does anyone even remember his content before everything happened?
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