Have you lost hope in mainstream music?

**Scarlett O'Hara** · 04-19-2011, 08:24 AM

Mainstream pop is great for teenage girls and angsty boys. It's what makes clubs fun to be slutty.

Urban Hat€monger ? · 04-19-2011, 11:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Herocon

Do you think pop will always be the ****ty auto-tuned, computer-generated crap we often hear on the radio? Or do you think, by some incredible feat, one day popular artists will miraculously begin using instrumments in their songs? I can't really enjoy a song unless it's produced by musical instruments, and not computers. As catchy as it may be, it just doesn't get my attention.

Things were no different in the past.

Instead of using autotune they just used session musicians. Loads of 'mainsteam pop' of the so called golden age of the 60s & 70s had bands that didn't even appear on their own recordings, let alone manipulate them to sound better.

~~pooka~~ · 04-19-2011, 07:59 PM

typical pooka rant when i was a teen...

when i was a teen grunge and alternative was taking off and it was the mainstream. i thought oh boy oh boy am i effin lucky look at all this kickass music.
now that im in my thirties i realize it was just more skitt and had no real lasting appeal.

the end.

Ska Lagos Jew Sun Ra · 04-19-2011, 08:55 PM

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Originally Posted by pooka

typical pooka rant when i was a teen...

when i was a teen grunge and alternative was taking off and it was the mainstream. i thought oh boy oh boy am i effin lucky look at all this kickass music.
now that im in my thirties i realize it was just more skitt and had no real lasting appeal.

the end.

True. Plus, Japan and California were still far outclassing Seattle when it came to output at the time.

AmericanIdle · 04-19-2011, 08:11 PM

I love music nowadays. My favorite singer is Avril Lavigne!! Anyone else with me?

~~Dirty~~ · 04-20-2011, 03:34 AM

I think of it like this... Most people have their handful of go-to bands they listen to when they are chillin or doin something around their place. Everyone chooses somethin different for the most part. But all these people also like to party. The girls like to drink and act slutty and the guys like to drink and find the slutty girls. So at clubs or parties, everyone is listening to the same music. And that's why it becomes mainstream, cause you have the driving force of the music industry (teenage and college age kids, mainly girls) listening to it every weekend. The only focus of these songs is to get people to party and dance. Mainstream rap in my opinion is just pop music for the most part. It's all just designed to be played at parties and clubs.

So, that was a kinda pointless rant. Anyways, I don't really have a problem with mainstream music AKA the Top 40. It serves it's purpose. I used to be all like "Lil Wayne and Drake suck, no way they are better than Big L or Nas!" But now I realize it's like comparing two different genres. The players aren't playing the same game so I can't compare them. But I pretty much think mainstream music is going to continue just being party music.

**Janszoon** · 04-20-2011, 07:23 AM

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Originally Posted by Dirty

So, that was a kinda pointless rant. Anyways, I don't really have a problem with mainstream music AKA the Top 40. It serves it's purpose. I used to be all like "Lil Wayne and Drake suck, no way they are better than Big L or Nas!" But now I realize it's like comparing two different genres. The players aren't playing the same game so I can't compare them. But I pretty much think mainstream music is going to continue just being party music.

Nas is mainstream, top 40 music though so I'm not really sure that's the best comparison.

Howard the Duck · 04-20-2011, 07:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Janszoon

Nas is mainstream, top 40 music though so I'm not really sure that's the best comparison.

he's pretty good mainstream, though but he hardly gets any airplay here

**Janszoon** · 04-20-2011, 07:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Il Duce

he's pretty good mainstream, though but he hardly gets any airplay here

Whether he's good or bad is kind of beside the point.

s_k · 04-20-2011, 07:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Herocon

I think music started going downhill in the 90s, and now we're at rock bottom haha.

Definitely don't agree. I think music started going downhill in the late 70's and got back up in the early 90's. It's really good now if you ask me. It's just the mainstream music that, if you ask me, went down in the late 70's and keeps getting lower, lower, lower... It's awful.

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Originally Posted by AmericanIdle

I love music nowadays. My favorite singer is Avril Lavigne!! Anyone else with me?

I believe there's one person... Who at some point started an AL topic. But apart from that... Don't think so

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04-19-2011, 07:59 PM	#3 (permalink)
~~pooka~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: the local county jail Posts: 133	typical pooka rant when i was a teen... when i was a teen grunge and alternative was taking off and it was the mainstream. i thought oh boy oh boy am i effin lucky look at all this kickass music. now that im in my thirties i realize it was just more skitt and had no real lasting appeal. the end.

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AmericanIdle Groupie Join Date: Apr 2011 Posts: 37	I love music nowadays. My favorite singer is Avril Lavigne!! Anyone else with me?

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~~Dirty~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: USA Posts: 981	I think of it like this... Most people have their handful of go-to bands they listen to when they are chillin or doin something around their place. Everyone chooses somethin different for the most part. But all these people also like to party. The girls like to drink and act slutty and the guys like to drink and find the slutty girls. So at clubs or parties, everyone is listening to the same music. And that's why it becomes mainstream, cause you have the driving force of the music industry (teenage and college age kids, mainly girls) listening to it every weekend. The only focus of these songs is to get people to party and dance. Mainstream rap in my opinion is just pop music for the most part. It's all just designed to be played at parties and clubs. So, that was a kinda pointless rant. Anyways, I don't really have a problem with mainstream music AKA the Top 40. It serves it's purpose. I used to be all like "Lil Wayne and Drake suck, no way they are better than Big L or Nas!" But now I realize it's like comparing two different genres. The players aren't playing the same game so I can't compare them. But I pretty much think mainstream music is going to continue just being party music.