I think its time for people to abandon chart music and just explore random artists and bands on spoti, bandcamp and other sites. Just pick a random one and tell others if its good like in the old days.
Throughout my entire life (and I’m an old music nerd) if you only looked at Top 40 for music, then yeah, you are going to miss out.
Top 40 feeds itself and mainstream artists chase what’s popular to stay popular.
But, eventually something comes along that is fresh and breaks the math. But then everyone chases THAT sound and it all starts over.
Yep. Beat movement to hippies. Hippies to glam rock. Glam rock to punk. Punk to post punk and electronic synth pop… Hair metal to grunge…
I’m always entertained by Justin Hawkins and I love The Darkness, but this was a weak video. 20 minutes of him reading an article out loud and offering barely any personal insight or opinion. I was waiting for him to actually get into a discussion and then suddenly I saw him itching to grab his guitar for the outro.
I kind of felt the article he mentioned was weak too, tbh. He had no real criticism of how the media has treated underground artists and non major label stuff.
My theory is that the proliferation of electronic music tools have allowed non-classically trained people to make music. This has democratized music but has a side effect of outputting lots of musically unsophisticated songs that prioritizes autotuned vocals. You need a good foundation in music theory to write complex songs. The lyrics are also simplistic diary entries of chunni teenagers since it used to be lyricists is its own field. The solution is to provide proper music education to would be songsmiths and musicians.
I think it’s our increasing need for easy and comfortable entertainment that has resulted in a lot of sameness.
I mean, look at movies. It’s the same IP rehashed over and over and over.
Low risk, high reward, consumers eat it up.
I dont think you need to be musically educated. I mean The Beatles and Sabbath made complicated music and had no formal training. There has to be an instinct for it. I suspect there are many people with the same electronic tools who have those instincts but dont get the recognition.
Can people not just enjoy what they enjoy? It feels like he’s getting high off his opinion being validated by this article, and that’s all the video is.
