Current Events > When did popular music actually begin to suck?

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I need this information because I really want to know the popular opinion and out bother me when YouTube comments say it

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Cute that we're pretending the 60's and 70's only had good popular music and nothing remotely bad.

Or earlier.
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There was a ton of garbage on pop radio in the '50s. It's like romance was the only thing these people knew how to sing about.
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About 2000 and beyond. 90's had just enough to redeem itself among the other shit.
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People who hate on pop music are the same people who praise superhero movies.
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MabusIncarnate posted...

About 2000 and beyond. 90's had just enough to redeem itself among the other shit.

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Probably when the Romans invented the bagpipes in 1000 BC. I'm sure they had some shitty songs back then.
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Just a few more results until I'm satisfied

Always. The vast majority of music is pretty forgettable. We just remember the good songs (or the memetically bad ones) but forget about all the generic crap, and therefore we reflect that music was 'better back in X'.

I'm kinda a connoisseur of pop Music through the decades. I studied the billboard charts of many years. Popular acts from the 80s include Cyndi Lauper, Europe, Duran Duran, Madonna, Tears for Fears, and more.

It's always been awful-anything produced for and enjoyed by the masses has almost always sucked. It's either dull and contrived or safe and non offensive, either way it's usually a little catchy but a lot crap.
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Dash_Harber posted...

Always. The vast majority of music is pretty forgettable. We just remember the good songs (or the memetically bad ones) but forget about all the generic crap, and therefore we reflect that music was 'better back in X'.

This, the reason most people say "today's song suck" is because you're listening to everything this generation has to offer. When you go to those oldie 70's radio channels, they're only going to play the best of the best during that time, they're not going to play the ones that suck.
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I would say the mid to late 00's. At least in 2007 a lot of top acts still played instruments.

Music's pmuch always sucked. Every genre. You have the artists that push a genre forward and claim new territory. You have the ones immediately influenced by them, then you have the rest influenced by money. Farther you get from the band's relevance the less good you get until the next one comes along and drags the genre out of the mud.

The good ones are never as successful as they should be, the successful ones never as good.
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Right after Teenage Dream.
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pancakeboy posted...

I'm kinda a connoisseur of pop Music through the decades. I studied the billboard charts of many years. Popular acts from the 80s include Cyndi Lauper, Europe, Duran Duran, Madonna, Tears for Fears, and more.

But then you gotta ask which of these where not see as trash during their time
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A man once told me that "Music stopped evolving after 1999."

He wasn't wrong.
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pancakeboy posted...

I'm kinda a connoisseur of pop Music through the decades. I studied the billboard charts of many years. Popular acts from the 80s include Cyndi Lauper, Europe, Duran Duran, Madonna, Tears for Fears, and more.

The Billboard charts are literally what I'm talking about; if it doesn't chart, it's not remembered. That doesn't mean that nothing else was created.

It's never been good, really, but it become entirely bad probably about 8 years ago.
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When YOU turn 30 lol
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There's always been crap, of course, but can we not admit that it's gotten worse over time?
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What is considered popular music today?

Cause I hear a lot of mumble rap that I absolutely despise, but I don't know if that's actually popular or I just hang out with shitheads too much.

While most was never all that good. The different genres were at least distinguishable from each other until the last 8-9 years. Now. Jfc. Everything has all moved to the cosmic singularity that is the generic "pop sound" shit. Rock, or at least what's classified as rock these days according to stations like KROQ as well as all other genre stations, sounds like Disney-fied pop shit. Country is pop. Even rap is pop sounding now.
I mean this decade has been red hot flaming dog shit in terms of music. The decade isn't even over yet and you already see it winning in polls about worst decades for music. And that's going back of the damn 1920's in some of those I've seen.
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bulletproofvita posted...

MabusIncarnate posted...

About 2000 and beyond. 90's had just enough to redeem itself among the other shit.

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When Obama became president.
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There's always been mostly shit, but there used to be more good as well so if you strip away all the shit there was a lot of good to look back on, but the majority was always shit and always will be shit.

There's statistical data that shows that popular music is getting gradually more dumbed down in terms of complexity and writing variety, vocabulary, etc. But a song doesn't necessarily need to be either of those things to be good, not inherently.
And with music being so subjective, it's really hard to say anything here.

Go back and look at a bunch of shitty 2000's pop songs on YouTube and you'll see comments everywhere like "this was when pop was still good" "they don't make music like this anymore" "I miss songs like this" etc. And a dominantly positive like/dislike ratio.
In a decade from now a bunch of people will find a bunch of shitty mumble rap today to be this great era of music for them and you'll see those same types of comments.
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