What opinion just makes you look like you aged 30 years
Dating should go back to face to face meetings. People need to get out and see others more, just generally.
No thank you. I can barely stand hearing somebody through a wall, why would I want to see them too?
I have three:
- They don’t make things like they used to
- We don’t need all these damned computers in everything
- Modern music sounds like crap
I’m 17.
I think two out of those believes stem from survivorship bias. You think of old music and consumer products as superior because the only ones that “survived” are the good ones. No one remembers bad music from 50 years ago, and for every old thermos flask/blender/knife that you see around there are dozens that broke years ago.
There was song from the 60s (supposedly the best music everyone tells me) called “7 little girls”. The chorus went “7 little girls sitting the back seat kissing and hugging with Fred”
Thankfully a mostly forgotten song now, but a clear example of how bloody awful pop music is not a new phenomenon.
I say yes for the music one, maybe not for the first. There are literally different materials being used and increasingly optimised-for-profit-to-effort-ratio processes. Many things are just straight up made more cheaply because we have the technology to do that.
Although for the music one, a relevant lyric comes to mind:
Hip hop? Buddy, don’t get me started
So how do you get yourself charted?
Kids love this stuff 'cause it’s so new
Put in a sample from a pop song too
You’ve got a hit, how come it sold?
The melody and it’s 30 years old!
Hip hop is pretty mainstream now but it started as counter culture. And I don’t think a sample in a song makes it similar to the sampled song. A lot of tracks that rely on samples completely create something new. Look at J Dilla who relied almost entirely on samples. His music isn’t a collection of old songs, it’s entirely new songs. I guess this thread is for boomer takes.
The best music is from the 70s and 80s.
After 2000 there is no music but commercial crap.
I strongly recommend doing a deep dive into some genres over at Bandcamp if you haven’t already.
I was of the same opinion for a while, but I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised if you check into the lesser known music corners.
Indeed, popular music has become highly commercial, but music as a whole is popping off
Yeah I’ve been very happy with all the new sounds and genres to discover. You do have to parse through a bunch of mediocre stuff, but there are soooo many diamonds in the rough.
Smart TVs are stupid and only exist to make ad revenue and sell user data. I’d pay extra for a TV like an LG C2 OLED but with no OS. Just a monitor that displays sources plugged in.
Majority of the music today is just plain trash. I can’t even bring myself to listen to these tracks
Here’s the secret, that’s always been the case. We only remember the good stuff
Absolutely. I would add though that when looking at mainstream music only (or radio music) for a rock fan it has gotten significantly worse, just for the fact that rock has made way for other genres. But if you look for it all that good music from “back then” is still being made, just at a smaller scale. I think that’s one of the reasons for this “there’s no good music anymore”. In the mainstream, for people who dislike pop/rnb etc? yes. In general? No way There is so much good music out there today, you just have to look for it.
