In Reply to: Whats so bad about Electronic Dance music becoming mainstream? posted by Raymond Leggs on July 18, 2012 at 18:38:52:
"It's merely a subset of the prefabricated, formulaic dreck that seems to be the only stuff passed on as "popular" these days."
What you noted was true all the way into the late 80's. That's when the labels themselves (who had been trying to kill every other genre off for years) did the most insidious thing ever. They embraced a half dozen bands, called them "alternative" and that's all you heard on the radio the next 10 years, these same sounding alternative bands that were not alternatives to anything as it was all you heard.
Now rock, all of it, sounds like these horrific "alternative" bands.
Country and western was turned into a bad form of the above years ago as well. It's no different other than the singer has an "country" accent, the lyrics are different (he's bemoaning a lost pickup truck) and you might hear a pedal steel in the song somewhere.
What this guy is talking about is just a further morphing of rap, which was never music any more than this is and it doesn't require any more talent than rap does either.
Those are the worlds 3 choices in "popular" music. It's enough to make you reach for the safety on your Luger....
Good music does exist, but it's generally called "indie" and the general public is entirely ignorant of it even though much of it is as good or better than anything ever done. One of the best bands of the past 15 years is The Acid House Kings. They release a gem of an album every 3-4 years yet nobody knows who they are. Say Yes If You Love Me
It's all about the music...
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- Don't Apologise Mr. Krieger - Peter Gunn 08:50:48 07/19/12 (16)
- Don't Have Much More to Say, Really...... - Todd Krieger 09:07:05 07/20/12 (1)
- +1 true true - 2chJunkie 09:36:13 07/20/12 (0)
- I hear you but IMO thats not entirely fair or true - 2chJunkie 12:46:00 07/19/12 (11)
- It's Musical Amberism in your case - Peter Gunn 08:58:34 07/20/12 (10)
- But I like NEARLY all eras and genres, REALLY :-) - 2chJunkie 09:31:24 07/20/12 (9)
- Then... - Peter Gunn 13:25:29 07/20/12 (8)
- Ok, I think I better understand. You and I simply approach this stuff different... - 2chJunkie 15:51:34 07/20/12 (7)
- No, that's entirely wrong - Peter Gunn 20:41:13 07/20/12 (6)
- Now I think I finally get it. Your passion confuses me a bit. - 2chJunkie 06:25:06 07/21/12 (5)
- No, I think you're just too young - Peter Gunn 07:40:02 07/21/12 (4)
- RE: No, I think you're just too young - esande 13:28:18 07/22/12 (0)
- Wow, ok... Ill just go get that razor - 2chJunkie 08:08:00 07/21/12 (2)
- RE: Wow, ok... Ill just go get that razor - Peter Gunn 15:56:52 07/21/12 (1)
- I think you said it best. "we have nothing in common" more like little IMO but yeah we see different NT - 2chJunkie 19:02:42 07/21/12 (0)
- RE: Don't Apologise Mr. Krieger - IEaudiodude 11:11:15 07/19/12 (1)
- RE: Don't Apologise Mr. Krieger - Peter Gunn 09:20:25 07/20/12 (0)