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by mat2427 on April 28th, 2008

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Why is all pop music today manufactured rubbish? the kids of the future need to listen to real music!!

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  • by Fun on April 28th, 2008

    Fun

    I just think it is how life works, and our kids someday will think that their kids are listening to crap.

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  • by JohnTron on April 28th, 2008

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    actually thats all pop music ever was, in any decade. i know we hold some classic pop in high regard but overall its always been manufactured crap

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  • by Galeanda on April 28th, 2008

    Galeanda

    Because music is all going downhill and those making music no longer think that training and lessons, and learning from others that preceded them is necessary. THey al think they are gifted and can decide for themselves what is wonderful to their ears. And their friends support them and say they are wonderful, the whole time taking music down the dumper even more.

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  • by Live to Ride on April 28th, 2008

    Live to Ride

    I agree! I mean it was so real when I was young, Milli Vanilli, New Kids, Tiffany... LOL!

    Seriously though, that's just how it goes until they develop an ear for music and identify what REAL music is!

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  • by Bitto on April 28th, 2008

    Bitto

    Corporate greed took a hold of "music" some time back and I believe that the damage it caused is irreversible.
    Perhaps that's what Don Mclean spoke of in his classic "American Pie" (...But something touched me deep inside.., the day the music died...)

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  • by CaRbOnPrOdUcK is Baccuss on November 27th, 2009

    CaRbOnPrOdUcK is Baccuss

    (screaming) Warning, Old Poop Alert! ;+

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  • by Tamilze on October 6th, 2008

    Tamilze

    The kids of the future don't need to do shit. If they like what you call manufactured crap, then they like it. I don't see why they would "need" to do anything at all.

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  • by trouble... staying calm on October 6th, 2008

    trouble... staying calm

    You sound just like my father.

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  • by Daniel on November 27th, 2009

    Daniel

    I don't know... I'm heading for my 40s now <gulp>, and there is some brilliant, experimental, innovative music... I don't think one can make a judgement like that. I think a great deal of popular music throughout history has been crappy because most people don't have very sophisticated musical taste. The music that survives tends to be special for some reason, which creates the illusion that things were better in the past. If you took a time machine back to your twenties, you'll discover that most of it was JUST as annoying as most of the music now.

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  • by iwnit on November 27th, 2009

    iwnit

    And what would be real music, in your opinion?

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  • by robinbird- gone on October 6th, 2008

    robinbird- gone

    I believe music started to die the day MTV came on. The image is what is more important today. Now there is also the availibility of downloading one song at a time, which potentially makes every song a throw-away single. Some bands still make conceptual, deep albums, but that is going away little by little, because the industry wants to squeeze as much out of an artist they can, then dump them for the next. Bands today get one album deals. That is terrible.

    I blame the industry, and our ADD culture that is hungry (and I believe now hungrier) for the next new thing.

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  • by Blue Tank on October 6th, 2008

    Blue Tank

    There has always been 'good music' and 'bad music' since ancient times. What has changed is that modern technological developments have made it easy for the peddlers of bad music to bring it to a wide audience. Now that the quality of a composition or performance is a secondary factor in determining its fate, the bad musicians and their paltry efforts are much harder to avoid.

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  • by ethandavies on June 28th, 2010

    ethandavies

    WTF? Look at the "More Questions" below. It talks about Justin Retarded Freak Who Can't Sing For Toffee Bieber. C'mon mun. Have any of you noticed only girls like him? Why do they like him? 'Coz they think he's "lush". Not because of his music. Because he looks "lush". He sounds like a 5 year old girl. And looks 10. Bring back The Darkness and Europe! Thin Lizzy are back bring Guns N' Roses back!

    I vote we should give Justin Bieber up as a sacrifice to get Freddie Mercury or Jimi Hendrix back. Doubt it will work. Not even God would want that freak.

    P.S. CaRbOnPrOdUcT is a Bacchus. and the other three beneath him/her I'm 13 and say pop is crap. Nearly everyone who I know would rather rock to pop.

    You say N-Dubz
    I say AC/DC
    You say Miley
    I say Queen
    You say Demi Lovato
    I say Darkness
    You say Bieber
    I say he's really a diva.
    You say Ga Ga
    I say Bon Jovi
    You say Joe Bros
    I say no goes
    You say Tinie Tempah
    I say Hendrix
    You say Eminem
    I say Smarties could write better songs.

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  • by Old School on March 18th, 2010

    Old School

    ...and GET OFF MY LAWN!.....;-D...

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  • by Linz1805 on March 18th, 2010

    Linz1805

    I agree, that's why I sit my 4 year old brother and sister down and introduce them to at least one classic band or group each week. We've done The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Who, David Bowie, Cat Stevens, some classical music (Bach, Beethoven, Brahams, etc) the list goes on... I feel like I'm teaching them something important, and it's a great way for us to spend time together because it's difficult to connect with siblings who are 13 years younger than me.

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  • by bagicide stayed 10 months too long on February 22nd, 2010

    bagicide stayed 10 months too long

    Very simply, because most public schools have cut art and music from their curriculum. They are no longer needed to convinced people that public school offers their kids opportunities they wouldn't have otherwise. Most people don't even think about educating their kids elsewhere anymore. Most kids are "butts in seat" waiting to be indoctrinated, with or without things like art, music, shop or home ec. Of course, the kids are looking at the junk they are being offered and dropping out in record numbers, with or without parental approval. They know that a lot of it is a waste of their time. I wish they knew they had other options, like home school, trade school or going straight to taking classes at the community college. But most of them are completely apathetic from the crushing boredom and indoctrination they've received in public school and can't face anything else.

    But I digress. When kids are not taught the basics of music, and they aren't taught to play and instruments or to sing in key, how would you expect them to produce or appreciate good music. The crap I listened to when I was a kid had foul lyrics, but they were usually done with a variety of good instruments and tight harmonies that followed good musical theory. Kids don't play instruments anymore. They know nothing about musical theory and they know nothing about harmony. How would they produce something worth listening to?

    That may not be a bad thing, however. Music that is beautiful to listen to tends to persist in your head even if the lyrics are unwelcome. I can't get Chevy Van out of my head, even though I hate the words. I couldn't hear them as a kid, both because stereo equipment was bad and because my undiagnosed allergies kept my ears full of fluid. Now the thought of someone picking up a hitchhiker, having sex with her and dropping her in an unknown town not knowing her name, not knowing if he might have conceived a child with her and not knowing if she knew anyone there or would be safe there is just inconceivable to me. I can't stand that song now, but since it has catchy and lovely music, it is there for life.

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  • by Arctico-The-Wolf Supports Leonard Peltier on December 5th, 2011

    Arctico-The-Wolf Supports Leonard Peltier

    Being 20, I'm not really a "kid", but I am "young"...

    I listen to Slayer, Destroyer, Cryptopsy, Wolves In the Throne Room, Bullet For My Valentine, Sathanas, Venom, Septic Flesh, Manson and Type O Negative!

    I'm a total metalhead! But still like GaGa and Ke$ha and especially LOVE Rihanna!

    RiRi and Slayer are my fav. music! Weird Combo, huh? ^^

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  • by machinerat on December 5th, 2011

    machinerat

    That's pretty much how pop music has been since the 60s. People need pop music because they aren't able to go out and find music on their own. Pop fills that need because it creates music for "everyone" to agree on (of course half the reason any of the music is popular is because it is SUPPOSED to be popular).

    That said, if you think about it it's kind of hard to craft a catchy pop tune.

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  • by 07748722420 on May 6th, 2008

    07748722420

    i think you may be right i myself am 16 i like all music apart from emo Gothic stuff just to loud but my dad abuses the music i listen to but the music in the 80s and all that i think is ok music and most of the music is crap because of the rapper wannabes

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  • by lepunkdigitale on November 27th, 2009

    lepunkdigitale

    I think since we lost the mogul of music himself, John Peel, people don't have a musical moral compass by which to bear their directions anymore. He was into it all, from Country, to Metal, all the way to hard dance music like Hardcore. But never did I ever dislike a song he played when I listened to his show on the radio. On the radio in the office I have to put up with Radio One and it's constant stream of pretentious, over dramatised rubbish. Most of the songs (except the odd crumb of comfort, Prodigy etc) are just terribly contrived and so benal that it's hard to tell one artist from the other.

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  • by magic-eyes on October 23rd, 2008

    magic-eyes

    True said, the music of today is diabolical!, just check out tue the top 40 and it makes you cringe when you hear the number one of the week. We had great artists right up untill the early and mid nineties when everything suddenly began deteriorate slowly..... to day we have un-iconic lyrics like "with you with you with you with you..........(just keep singing that for 5 minutes and watch yourself choke) or the other song 'suicidal' and the true sound of today's crap lyrics (shut up and drive more like shut up and die). People just don't have enought of true life experience to write songs and everyone wants a type of look or feel or emulate something or the other (where has the originality gone?.....) its all about airhead girlbands who haven't got a clue about the real world being pushed by giant corporations to sell anything even if it is crap, that is why there are so many radio stations playing older music(just to remind us of how music should be)

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  • by patricksamontanez on February 22nd, 2010

    patricksamontanez

    IN-FUCKING-DEED!!

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