AngelCityOutlaw Posted January 23, 2012 Author Share Posted January 23, 2012 Didn't you guys noticed? Cheap-tunes everywhere now! In dance, pop, trance, METAL, rock, relax, EVERYWHERE!!!!!!!Cheap-tunes are EVIL!! lol My thoughts!! When I was 11........... Cheap-tunes? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garpocalypse Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 Music today is better than it has ever been but it's just very tough to find the new wave of great bands and artists. They're mostly unknown or tough to find because the advertising companies keep pushing these inane female dolls to sell discs to the last people stupid enough to still buy them. You know you're right. But we still have a loooong ways to go to catch up to Japan! http://singularityhub.com/2011/06/22/new-japanese-pop-idol-shocks-fans-with-news%E2%80%93shes-not-real-video/ I know she's fake! That's the best part! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AkumajoBelmont Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 I'm 20.My collection of tapes and CDs from the 80s and 90s prove that mainstream music was superior at that time. Absolutely. Pop music was awesome in the 80's and 90's. And I agree, as disposable as a lot of the tracks were, they still were composed well and had a lot going for them. Still, there's a lot of people out there bringing those 80's & 90's sensibilities back. Lady Gaga, Grum and more. I'm enjoying the resurgence of the 80's sounds eg. Grum - Turn It Up: Modern top 40 production trends are fucking terrible. Hip Hop/R&B is the worst. They've all but abandoned their soul/funk roots and instead draw their inspiration from the cheesiest European dance music. At best, it might be a poor imitation of minimalistic 808 beats from the 80's. See, that pop dancey/new R&B stuff I can tolerate, if only for the fact it's easy enough to sing along to because it's melodic... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garpocalypse Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 Absolutely. Pop music was awesome in the 80's and 90's. And I agree, as disposable as a lot of the tracks were, they still were composed well and had a lot going for them.Now, not so much. You see alot of this attitude in gaming as well as music. "Something is missing from today's music/games that stuff back then had in spades." Or something along those lines. What's missing is you haven't had any time to develop any conceptual thought around what you are listening to or playing. So what's new always seems fake and lifeless compared to what you already know you like. As soon as I hear the theme for Fresh Prince of Bel-air, which i never liked, I remember people in dumb hats, Gack, Sonic the hedgehog on Saturday mornings, Ren and Stimpy, the other stuff that gave it life to me. Hence the business of nostalgia. give it 10 years, I'm sure you'll be youtubing Nicki Minaj thinking "Remember back in the good days when OCRemix was still around and we spent all day talking about the general crapiness of Nicki Minaj? Rozovian was on top of the world, Willrock didn't yet sell out, and Lion Tamer wasn't arrested for being confused with an Italian midget crime lord? Gosh those were the good ol' days!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nabeel Ansari Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 Lion Tamer wasn't arrested for being confused with an Italian midget crime lord? Gosh those were the good ol' days!" Dude wtf are you on it was totally the Byzantine Templars Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AkumajoBelmont Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 You see alot of this attitude in gaming as well as music. "Something is missing from today's music/games that stuff back then had in spades." Or something along those lines. What's missing is you haven't had any time to develop any conceptual thought around what you are listening to or playing. So what's new always seems fake and lifeless compared to what you already know you like. As soon as I hear the theme for Fresh Prince of Bel-air, which i never liked, I remember people in dumb hats, Gack, Sonic the hedgehog on Saturday mornings, Ren and Stimpy, the other stuff that gave it life to me. Hence the business of nostalgia. give it 10 years, I'm sure you'll be youtubing Nicki Minaj thinking "Remember back in the good days when OCRemix was still around and we spent all day talking about the general crapiness of Nicki Minaj? Rozovian was on top of the world, Willrock didn't yet sell out, and Lion Tamer wasn't arrested for being confused with an Italian midget crime lord? Gosh those were the good ol' days!" Not quite. I should have clarified that I still listen to a lot of Mainstream pop - but it's more Euro-stuff than anything else, so it's not exactly mainstream for the average joe here in Australia, but to me, it's pretty by the numbers. As for new pop-stuff, I've had 'time to develop my conceptual thought around' the fact that I really like PitBull, anything RedOne, Lady Gaga and David Guetta's stuff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AngelCityOutlaw Posted January 23, 2012 Author Share Posted January 23, 2012 Well, I know of at least one #1 album here in Canada that I loved the shit out of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MItj1nKOtmQ ...and everyone hates on them lol give it 10 years, I'm sure you'll be youtubing Nicki Minaj thinking "Remember back in the good days when OCRemix was still around and we spent all day talking about the general crapiness of Nicki Minaj? Rozovian was on top of the world, Willrock didn't yet sell out, and Lion Tamer wasn't arrested for being confused with an Italian midget crime lord? Gosh those were the good ol' days!" So basically, the world just gets worse all the time? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gollgagh Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 So basically, the world just gets worse all the time? yes, everything previous to current times was in The Golden Age Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PROTO·DOME Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 Willrock didn't yet sell outYou mean he hasn't already? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garpocalypse Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 yes, everything previous to current times was in The Golden Age People only remember the good and rarely the bad. Not that that's a bad thing, but if it makes you have a negative outlook when dealing with the present then it is. You mean he hasn't already? He did? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WillRock Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 I don't know what you guys are talking about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mak Eightman Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 Cheap-tunes? Name it chiptunes if you want. But they are cheap and evil!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salluz Posted October 22, 2012 Share Posted October 22, 2012 Plus, hip-hop in the 90s compared to 2010...really...if I need to explain AGAIN why DJ Premier's east coast tracks are way better than what the south puts out, I'm going to have to just submit a remix explaining why in Chris Martin's format. Do this, please, I beg of you. I'll help you, even. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KyleJCrb Posted October 22, 2012 Share Posted October 22, 2012 Name it chiptunes if you want. But they are cheap and evil!! Uh, what? Chiptunes are Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-RoN Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 Do this, please, I beg of you. I'll help you, even. Tempting, however, I think some form of new 90s sounding hip-hop may need to go viral on YouTube first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bleck Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 this is the greatest thing I've ever seen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meteo Xavier Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 this is the greatest thing I've ever seen You used to be funny Bleck. you are not funny anymore Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Less Ashamed Of Self Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 Can I just say, I don't hate that Nicky Minaj song on page one, but by the like ratio, it seems I'm a minority? What are we all worried about again? Yeah pop music sucks these days but to me that wasn't the best example. Obnoxious female rapping a la Missy Elliot is a style I seem to have more tolerance for than the average person. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AngelCityOutlaw Posted October 23, 2012 Author Share Posted October 23, 2012 Thread has come back from the grave I see. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bleck Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 no seriously that was the greatest music video ever Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AngelCityOutlaw Posted October 23, 2012 Author Share Posted October 23, 2012 no seriously that was the greatest music video ever Really? I thought this was rated the ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Legendary Zoltan Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 What the hell happened to music!? Because you touch yourself at night. No wait. That isn't how you use that joke. Let me try again. What the hell happened to music!? That's what your mom said when I... No that's not right either. I guess I don't know. That's what we have OCR for, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mustin Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 Nothing happened to music. Only something happened to you when you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cash Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 Nothing happened to music. If you can't find music you like that was made within the last decade, you're not looking hard enough. People only think music was better in the past because they're looking at the classics, while ignoring all else. The same with movies, television, and video games. There have always been your Rebecca Blacks, the only difference being it's now more visible, thanks to the internet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vakri Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 The problem as I see it for why so much crap gets so popular, is that a lot of people don't actually care about the music itself, they care about irrelevant crap like how "cute"/"hot" the singer is and other nonsense. The actual music itself barely matters. People are also too easily swayed by "popularity" (whether real or perceived). Even if an "artist" is a complete nobody who can't sing or rap or write music worth a crap, all it takes is a slick music video that presents him/her as a cool new hip awesome somebody who all the cool people like, and/or for some already established artist/actor/what-have-you who people think is cool to endorse them, and suddenly no matter how crappy they actually are, they'll make millions and have tons of fans. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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