music

You know there's other music than pop right? This is on par with people proclaiming gaming is dead after buying whatever the latest gaming fad shit and conveniently ignoring anything else

Bad music wil always exist but the cheap and easy stuff is what makes profit and gets pushed by record labels. Stop looking there.

Theres not like 100 years of recorded music one could sift through at any moment. Or the insane amount of content on Soundcloud or Bandcamp. Or have an experience in meat world seeing live music.

As someone who can play music professionally, I think most people who have this criticism suffer from music illiteracy. Like in a world where art isnt a priority, maybe do some self-crit that maybe your ears arent that experienced, that you have a limited listening palette and you don't know as much as you think you do. Then ask why is this so? Like corporate slop has definitely shaped the musical landscape and has poisoned anyones mind who has partaked but why haven't you ventured much further?

ok boomer

Music the past few years has genuinely been really good. Expand your tastes, go look for new music, and don't base everything off what's popular or on the radio.

It goes both ways, mainstream music has achieved the production rate to pump out so much shit that it can overshadow everything, but at the same time access to instruments and recording software and music repositories has improved too so really small musicians are putting out gems out there that can hardly be found, but they still exist

To stop being an elitist about music is probably the one thing that made me closer to inner peace and open to other humans

One day I realised that most of what I used to hate was what people who were less privileged than me enjoyed

Now I agree that there is a mentally destructive Kulturindustrie that robs the people of their popular musical practices by commodifying it.

But it's also important to realise that most traditional non-commodified music wasn't some advanced shit either and was very much looked down upon by the ruling classes before becoming cool and authentic

Nah. A decade or two ago people were literally listening to pop punk. Before that bands like Rolling Stones had a fanbase. Awful stuff.

In many ways I think modern pop is better. Phoebe Bridgers puts out some solid music, and hyperpop is just a treat.

For country even the mainstream lets Chris Stapleton get a place on the radio, though I do prefer his bluegrass stuff. If you want more obscure stuff give Mama's Broke a listen.

listen to imaginal disk by magdalena bay then come back

Some of my favorite artists/bands released best albums ever in the last few years after being completely mid (relative to themselves) for the last decade or so

Capitalism is destroying music (and all of the arts) and it is only going to get harder to find good music. Just wait until they start pumping out AI songs that get played everywhere you go

Stay strong OP, you're only a couple years away from AI fully ruining music and you can tell those "everything was better back in your day, sure grandma" people to fuck off

A lot of commercially produced pop music is shit. I kind of see it like complaining you can't get good food from McDonald's when there are so many other options out there, but you need to find them yourself.

I am loving Absolute Elsewhere from Blood Incantation this year. That album goes from death metal to pink Floyd and back again.

Earlier in the year Lord Dying released an album that's great too. Better Lovers has Greg Puciato from Dillinger and sounds like them in a good way. Tides From Nebular put out a great instrumental album, as did Kiko Loureiro, formerly of Megadeth. Same with Nock Johnston again in the instrumental guitar space.

A surprise one for me was Planetoid by Terrapath. They're a small band and I came across them on a torrent website, loved the album so I picked it up on a band camp Friday.

Rivers of Nihil have singles out, so they're teasing a new album I'm excited for.

And I just opened my music app to see Opeth, Distant, Body Count, Jinjer, Worm Shepherd, Gilipojazz, and First Fragment have all put out new music I haven't listened to yet.

I like prog and death metal, but it will be the same in whatever genres you're into. Dig a bit deeper and look into the sub-genres and you'll find stuff you like there. No one is going to serve you good music on a silver platter

lol 2024 has been one of the best years for music since the pandemic. Idk what you’re on tho

I bet you haven't even listened to the new lil xan album huh?

Dua Lipa, TDJ, Viagra Boys, Chat Pile

Comrade, listen to DPRK music now.

https://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/album/2024/

A lot of good records to listen to on there