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Not a bad post man. But I think you might be misunderstanding some of the things he says about the state of music. Do you really think that all of that Pop music that's so popular right now is really that great and deserves a lot of the praise it gets? It's not just Pop, but Rock too. Ton of Rock bands around now that are still largely new that are just so void of anything innovative or that has grit or depth to it. It's irritating.
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As if that's any different from the 90s. There's always ****ty mainstream stuff and good alternative stuff.
Do you remember limp bizkit? Smash Mouth? Remember Aqua and Creed and All Saints and Stone Temple Pilots and Sugar Ray? Remember Hanson? Baha Men? Billy Ray Cyrus?
Every generation has bull**** and then it has good music. This generation has the most good music of any because of the internet and how easy it is to get your stuff out there. This dude is talking about EDM like it's not the most over saturated, hyper generic thing in contemporary music. EDM is literally the same exact thing as pop. The only people who think it isn't are people who just discovered it, so he's clearly out of touch with contemporary alternative music.
Rock bands are void of innovation? Yeah, your over saturated post grunge dude rock scene is void of innovation. It has been ever since Nirvana. What about math rock, and post rock, and experimental rock bands like Swans? What about the new wave of experimental folk rock?
Yeah, music is dead and void of innovation, if all you do is turn on the radio and watch MTV. This guy has such an MTV perspective. MTV is dead. The radio is dead. The internet took its place.
That's why it's not theirs. Also, if you're good, noone can mimic you. That's why iconic bands are iconic, or iconic artists in general. I don't see a million Vladimir Nabokov clones running around because noone can write like Vladimir Nabokov.
And stop talking about the top 40. Who cares about the top 40. Who gives a **** about the top 40 honestly. There's this huge amount of experimental, amazing music coming out of electronic scenes. Literally the age of the internet caused every genre and scene of music to mesh together and new sounds are popping up left and right and the level of innovation and accessibility is at an all time high and people aren't bound to the studios anymore and people are slaves to the label as much and we're sitting here referencing Katy Perry and Iggy Azaelia and Nicki Minaj. There was bubblegum pop in the 90s. The term bubblegum pop literally originated in the 60s. It's been happening for a really, really long time. It's not anything new. Mainstream pop has been doing what mainstream pop does forever.
If you really think that the new wave of experimental electronic music in the past 10 years is bland, I want to know what artists you are talking about specifically. From my standpoint, I don't think you'd be able to name a single one because you seem so wrapped up in Katy Perry, who is literally the most irrelevant person in music ever.
I looked at your last FM and literally we don't have a single artist in common except Placebo. You keep talking about the scene I'm talking about as if it's the scene he's talking about, but honestly, I don't think you, or him, even know that the scene I'm talking about exists.