David Guetta, Calvin Harris, Swedish House Mafia, Avicii, Skrillex… I swear EVERYONE from 2011 to early 2016 that was at the top of the charts was a DJ featuring a famous artist like Rihanna, Ellie Goulding, Justin Bieber, etc…

Dunno what kind of perfect storm happened for that trend to form but I want it back, kind of. I just can’t stand current music, especially if the music is getting shorter and the lyrics even dumber (I’m talking about popular music, not unknowns).

2010s were the years I kinda stopped just listening nu metal and metal and kinda went back to popular music for a while. 2020s music pushed me back to 2000s nu metal and Metallica.

  • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
    52·
    11 days ago

    Yeah, they said the same thing 10 years ago, and 20, and thirty.

    You don’t have to understand or like other kinds of music for them to be good. They can be good to some people and not others.

    Saying it’s not good is just like grandpa saying Nirvana wasn’t as good as the Beatles. Saying you don’t like it is fair criticism, saying it’s just not as good is just generational bullshit. The kids like it, so who cares. It’s not good or bad, it’s just different.

    • Optional@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      10 days ago

      Good or bad aside, it’s fundamentally different. Ok?

      Synthesizers and drum machines changed everything for better and for worse.

      • booly@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        10 days ago

        Weren’t those synthesizers and drum machines huge in the 70’s, culminating in the game-changing TR-808 making its mark on basically huge swathes of music that followed?

        Whatever it is we’re talking about, it certainly wasn’t invented by the current generation of musicians.

    • Tracked@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
      44·
      11 days ago

      Lyrics are getting worse dude, at least Nirvana didn’t repeated the word “hoe” 20 times in their songs

      • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
        43·
        11 days ago

        Your opinion is that lyrics are getting worse. For every artist you think has bad lyrics there’s another that has great lyrics.

          • harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            44·
            11 days ago

            Pop music has always been crafted to appeal to as many people as people as people. It’s never great music. It’s just good enough in enough ways for it to not be hated.

            It’s like American cheese or fast food. It’s not always garbage but there’s always better choices

            • Tracked@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
              16·
              10 days ago

              Nirvana was the most popular shit ever dude, Metallica at one point was. And if we go the 2000s pop route, I know almost all Britney Spears songs (the famous ones) I don’t remember a single one as idiotic or offensive as “generic black ghetto chick twerking to a beat # 5”