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there are theories about the fact that music you heard as a teenager is deeply rooted in your brain and brings you joy in a way that music you hear later in life gives you no emotion at all.
I was a 90s teenager and I associate every famous song from the era to some events in my life, and I usually like hearing them even though there are songs I did not even like at the time.
Also, 80s music is directly related to childhood for me.
2015 was probably the last really good year for music. 2016 had some good songs but for the most part sucked and 2017 has been god awful.
I wanted to add that I was watching a television show and a song that they played nearly knocked my socks off. And I had to look up the name on the song on the internet since I generally don't keep up with the new songs that come out.
Pop music changes regularly. If you listen to a lot of it you retune your ear to adapt to those changes. It's only occasionally you find yourself wondering if everybody's out of step but you, whether everybody else has settled for songs that are well-made when they really ought to be stopping you in your tracks,
Funny how things change. Music radio used to draw its strength from the fact that it had all the tunes. and we didn't. Nowadays we all have just as many tunes as they do and we're free to listen to whatever we feel like whenever we feel like it.
The more you hear the more you realize you have yet to hear, and now it's finally sitting there at your fingertips.
Find what you like no matter your age.
I'm a music buff, so I still keep up with trends. While I believe that every generation stops listening to pop at a certain age due to maturing music tastes, my opinion is that today's pop music is objectively worse than that of past generations. I thought pop music went downhill 7 years ago when I was in my mid-twenties.
As I've gotten older, I listen to more and more R&B from the early 2000s and earlier because music today is so bad, but R&B from the 90s and 2000s is also what I grew up with. R&B started disappearing when "R&B" artists started doing EDM in the early 2010s and now trap music. So, the decline of mainstream R&B in recent times is factual. It's mostly missing from the top 40 now with the exception of a couple of very popular artists. In the late 90s and early 2000s, the biggest R&B artists were regularly in the top 40.
Then, there is the problem with hip hop. I believe that it has also objectively gotten worse. I'm sure a linguist or expert in literature could prove this by analyzing the decreasing complexity of lyrics and rhyming schemes and lower-level vocabulary.
The advent of AutoTune has also had its effect on pop music. There were always those handful of singers that only sounded good in the studio, but the excessive use of AutoTune and other pitch correction software these days has allowed artists with absolutely no singing talent to sell. Further, DAWs (digital audio workstations) have made it possible for people who can't play instruments and don't know music theory to produce. Hip hop producers of the past who didn't know how to play an instrument would sample old songs with high-quality instrumentals, so even older hip hop songs sounded more complex and less electronic. Today's hip hop still samples (but to a lesser degree because it's gotten expensive), but it also samples more newer, underground tracks that are electronic, and the producers add their own synthesizers on top.
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I wanted to add that I was watching a television show and a song that they played nearly knocked my socks off. And I had to look up the name on the song on the internet since I generally don't keep up with the new songs that come out.
I know very little of Bruno Mars, but I did enjoy his tribute to Sting. Does he always sing so powerfully? How he hasn't blown out his voice I'll never know.
I know very little of Bruno Mars, but I did enjoy his tribute to Sting. Does he always sing so powerfully? How he hasn't blown out his voice I'll never know.
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