I know good modern pop music exists, I'm talking about the terrible shit that plays on radios, commercials, TV etc. The stuff that the media has decided is current pop music.

This is probably my most boomer opinion , but most of it is awful. Where have all the strong voices gone? It's all baby voiced feel good insurance commercial stuff or warbley break-up songs.

If I hear another song that sounds like 'Tonights Gonna be a Good Night." or Ed Sheeran or any of the 100 songs sung by women that all sound like infants I am going to screm.

Also anyone notice that these songs are all safe as far as lyrics go? No ones allowed to be mad or defiant in music anymore. Its all "Lets party." or "Boohoo my Boyfriend left me." Mainstream music used to have tons of "Fuck the system" songs, not any more. There seems to be no genre represented outside of singer-songwriter. Also let women have strong voices again, damn it. Also let bands that play instruments exist. Let multiple genres exist!

Anyway, Boomer_Owl out

  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    i mean frank sinatra and elvis were mainstream in the past, no? that's certainly good music, and if nothing else there's the beatles which is like.. the definition of mainstream and viewed by many as the best music ever

    even nowadays there's the odd bit of actually creative music on the radio now and then

    • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      If you are not a mainstream pop music enjoyer, you probably do not enjoy mainstream pop music, regardless of the decade it was produced or the artist who performed it.

      If you're sick of the derivative, algorithmically optimised songs on iHeartRadio or any other equivalent corporate station, you're not going to stick around for the 1-2 marginally different songs that get playtime per week. Even most of the alt radio stations have been captured by one of these massive companies that own hundreds of stations.

      In my entire province, there is only a single AM station (originating in the US) we can pick up that isn't owned by Bell, Corus, Rogers, or iHR. It's 24/7 right wing talk radio. I haven't listened to radio in years. There's nothing there for me.