Thread 127414246

Agree or disagree?

Is there a current popular artist that has actual decent live instrumentation and loudly projected vocals?

well duh, English artists and bands are obviously going to be superior to north American ones

>>127414246 (OP)
NYEEEEEEEEEHEHEHEHEHEHE

>>127414246 (OP)
Swift was playing to stadiums on her tour last year.

>>127414262
no. that would be problematic because its unfair to exclude those who can't play instruments from being successful musicians. people who can't sing can be enabled by autotune so thats fine, but expecting people to actually be able to play guitar or bass or drums is SO ableist.

>>127414302
ok

>>127414246 (OP)
>Justin Bieber
>Kanye West
>Drake
None of these artists are even remotely relevant in 2025. Kanye is a nazi, Drake is a pedophile, and Justin Bieber is retired.

>>127414246 (OP)
Even if you grew up in the 90s,you still wouldn't get excited over that crap

>>127414246 (OP)
Kanye wipes the floor with all of those except Led Zeppelin.

>when you grow up listening to psych/classic rock, its hard to get excited about rap artis or pop
wow, mind boggling revelation

when you grew up playing to artists like bach, Mozart, and beethoven. its hard to get excited about artist like the beetles, led zeppelin, and Justin Bieber.

>>127414324
Growing up with Kanye, Drake, and Bieber, it's hard to get excited about artists like [insert any modern big name]

>>127414246 (OP)
Straight out of 2010 with this one

>>127415242

oh god we're going to hear this in the next ten years aren't we?

>>127414246 (OP)
No one is better than Ye

>>127414246 (OP)
OK boomer

>>127415313
Tay won

>>127415313
plot twist: they're in Australia and that guy is giving Ye the finger

Lots of old music is shit. Lots of new music is good. Lot's of old music is also still good. Lots of new music is also shit. Both good and new music is timeless. Stop binding yourself to different eras and some arbitrary generational cut off point. Give zoomer music a chance.

>>127416215
*Both good and shit music is timeless. Stop binding yourself to different eras and some arbitrary generational cut off point. Give zoomer music a chance.

>>127414246 (OP)
Agree, and it was by design. GenX lapped up the boomer brainwashing like happy dogs. It's rare to find a GenXer who knows more about their local scene than boybands from 70s years ago.

>>127415195
Fpbp

>>127414324
Bieber just released an album

>>127414246 (OP)
Take: Queen was overrated as fuck with like 3 really good songs and the rest being forgettable garbage and if they were a band that formed recently NOBODY would give a shit about them.

>>127416215
While this is true, even with all of the tools and streaming services out there, it seems harder than ever to find good new shit. For example there's TONS of great new rock that gets released every year, but the only way I feel like I'm able to find it is by digging through the depths of the rym chart hell. Rock radios are completely stuck in the past playing old shit even on the supposed new rock radios so that's a no go. The only way you're hearing new shit is by listening to like NTS or something like that but their mostly stuck playing more hipster rock overall. Streaming services are dogshit as well for the most part, I almost never find out about a new band I like through them.

>>127414246 (OP)
>when you grow up appreciating multi instrumentalist bands its hard to like single "artists" that dont know how to sing and sample beats
Yeah. Pop sells you an asthetic, not music. It has you worshiping another man like a faggot instead of the music that comes out.

>>127414262
Look to country, my friend.

>>127414281
All English rock bands are just ripoffs of Buddy Holly and the Crickets who were from Texas.

>>127416848
ditto Gene Vincent

>>127416374
>For example there's TONS of great new rock that gets released every year, but the only way I feel like I'm able to find it is by digging through the depths of the rym chart hell. Rock radios are completely stuck in the past playing old shit even on the supposed new rock radios so that's a no go
they don't get promotional pushes from Warner or whatever is why. without that big label push you're not gonna hear them.

>>127414246 (OP)
This would only make sense if he grew up listen to r&b and pop for preteen and teen girls. Why are people like this? If you weren't interested in that shit back in the day why should you be interested in it now? Fucking boomers cry over everything

>>127416215
No new music in the mainstream is even above the level of horrid and some old mainstream music is great.

>>127416903
Not exactly. Those were the big artists making moves back then, regardless of genre. The biggest artists in the modern era aren't up to the same caliber.

this shit is literally "We love music but we're also incredibly racist", makes sense it'd find its way here

>>127414246 (OP)
When you grow up it's hard to get excited about anything. It's called getting older.

>>127416903
>only pop and R&B are mainstream now
Grim.

>>127417074
thanks Reddit

>>127417129
Lemme show you a Billboard from the blessed 90s when music was real, dammit if you think it's not mostly that slop.

>>127417168
I struggle to even respond to the bait anymore. It's all so uninspired.

>>127417183
Depends on when in the 90's. Granted, most of rock was slop too, but I think the Billboard charts can be misleading. There was more variety in the mainstream music industry.

>>127417098
Did all four of the OP bands release albums in 1974? Is thatbwhy this is supposed to be relevant?