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duga · 05-20-2012, 01:21 PM

I just thought to myself that maybe today's music can be compared to the 80's. In the 80's, slick production really took off so everyone really hit on a similar sound. Pop music these days is similar...slick production has now been introduced to the masses for cheap, so now everyone wants that dancey-dubsteppy-club ready sounding kind of tune. I just heard an add for J. Lo's new album on Spotify, and sure enough it sounds very derivative of the current sound. I've heard Pop songs playing and they have really random ass bass drops...what is the need for that?

I think this is where the hindsight thing might come in...we can look back at the 80's and pick out the stuff that lasted like the Smiths, Tears for Fears, etc but at the time it was probably really hard to tell what the classics were going to be. Maybe that's where we are at right now and I should just be patient.

Still...I just really want a timeless modern classic. I've been aching for one.

05-20-2012, 01:21 PM	#31 (permalink)
duga MB quadrant's JM Vincent Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Washington, DC Posts: 3,762	I just thought to myself that maybe today's music can be compared to the 80's. In the 80's, slick production really took off so everyone really hit on a similar sound. Pop music these days is similar...slick production has now been introduced to the masses for cheap, so now everyone wants that dancey-dubsteppy-club ready sounding kind of tune. I just heard an add for J. Lo's new album on Spotify, and sure enough it sounds very derivative of the current sound. I've heard Pop songs playing and they have really random ass bass drops...what is the need for that? I think this is where the hindsight thing might come in...we can look back at the 80's and pick out the stuff that lasted like the Smiths, Tears for Fears, etc but at the time it was probably really hard to tell what the classics were going to be. Maybe that's where we are at right now and I should just be patient. Still...I just really want a timeless modern classic. I've been aching for one. __________________ Confusion will be my epitaph...