Originally Posted by William_the_Bloody (Post 1506075)

How Mediocrity Became the Music Industry Status Quo

Originally Posted by Ki (Post 1506062)

Good lord just shut up about all the facts and blog posts and whatever. Who gives a **** if there is discontent about a genre or about what modern music is, if you don't like it, don't listen to it. Don't throw pointless pieces of information down people's throats in order to possibly make a point, especially when its about music which is easily the most opinionated subject on earth. You're not saying anything that hasn't been said before and it all just boils down to....if you don't like it, don't bother with it. It's really that easy.

Originally Posted by William_the_Bloody (Post 1506036)

I realize there have been a lot of threads dumping on modern music but that is not my sole intent.

This isn't about the old versus the young, its about the general decline in pop music due to manufactured pop artists that cannot compose their own music.

When you have pop artists relying on dj's to use samples and arpeggios to make your music, your going to have more and more music sounding redundant and the same as LL points out in the study.

I did say there has been a turn around, (Lady Gaga, Pharrell Williams, Goyte, Foster the People ect) but there is still a widespread culture in the corporate music world to simply sign an artist based on their image, and hire a producer to slap together a crappy sampled R & B or dance beat and run their vocals through pro tools because they can't do it on their own.

Originally Posted by Goofle (Post 1505880)

Justin Timberlake
Rihanna
Ariana Grande
Pharrell Williams
Bruno Mars
Jessie J
Avicii

Cliff Richard
Wings
John Travolta & Olivia Newton John
Rod Stewart
Roy Orbison
Engelbert Humperdinck
Tom Jones
Royal Scots Dragoon Guards
Elvis Presley
The Everly Brothers
Gary Glitter
Leo Sayer

I know which list of chart toppers I am siding with.