Oh my fucking god I just wanted to say how otherworldly bad music is right now (pop has always been stupid to varying levels but oh my fucking god they have raised the stakes). I just listened to a bunch of pop tracks from various genres and I literally think I'm about to die. Rock, country, indie, folk, hipster white rap, whatever you call home, is aggressively bad. It's like Walmart made a gun that can shoot cum and blood and piss and shit and puke into your soul. We are so fucking fucked. I want to saw my own head off.
GNX, Chromakopia, ALLIGATOR BITES NEVER HEAL, fym "music sucks so bad rn"
RIGHT?????? I've had the best year for music in a while. I'm eating so good. All my favorite artists have released amazing work this year. Megan is glowing (i saw her live this year, i love her with all my heart) , Doechii dropped a life-changing album, Glorilla is having her moment, and Kendrick has cemented his dominance, oh i am blessed!!
All my favorite projects been dropping. Doechii, Kendrick, Tyler continuing his run of growth and evolution, Zeal and Ardor even blessed us with a new tape this year and that's where I've been at when I need a metal fix. I fundamentally can't take anybody whining about the state of music serious this year; like either you livin under a rock or you whiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiite
Oooo oooo zeal and ardor mentioned holy shit. My bf showed me them and I'm into them more now lol. Erghhhdjekdmwmxmwmdkwkdw Come on Down and all three parts of Sacriligium are bangersssss but my fav is Built on Ashes omg it's so good.
Zeal and Ardor even blessed us with a new tape this year
I've been meaning to get into metal, I mostly listen to rap and like sad queer pop music. also since I've been less of a shut-in I've been invited to all sorts of local music scenes, like if you're out in the community you're gonna get invites to cool stuff all the time right away. (i have to limit how often i can go out due to over stimulation from autism though.) its very easy to find local music and theres always something. i cant even begin to relate to this take.
You: despairing that the top 5 tracks on Spotify are soulless garbage
Me: clicking random folders on random soulseek accounts and finding nothing but bangers
"I listened to many songs from a genre of music I don't like, so clearly nobody is making good music. I'm so edgy!"
Music has never been better. There's so much out there. If you're intentionally poisoning yourself with things you don't like like, that's sort of on you.
I'll go one further, mainstream pop and the top streamed music right now - literally the most mainstream of the mainstream - goes hard. looking at Spotify top charts for the week, I'm seeing BIRDS OF A FEATHER by Billie Eilish and Taste by Sabrina Carpenter, which are two very good high-production mainstream pop songs. better than j ever remember pop being in the rest of my life. brat came out this summer. Tyler the Creator just dropped CHROMAKOPIA. and slightly off mainstream but still very popular were Camila Cabello, Remi Wolf, Magdalena Bay, honestly this is like the best I imagine pop music has been in decades. what's the issue?
Rock, country, indie, folk, hipster white rap, whatever you call home, is aggressively bad
So, did you want to say rap here but realize it could come off wrong, so you said white rap instead? OR did you not realize you can listen to nonwhite rappers? Because it's got to be one of those, right?
Shut up and listen to some Gizz. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=koQvZI4ewGg
Yeah, when King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard is releasing new music, or when Godspeed you! Black Emperor has a new banger of an album calling attention to the genocide, you can't just say "there's no good music around"
if i tried to make the point that music is in a good vital place right now, i wouldn't use a decade old postrock band from the 90s or a psych rock revival band from the 2010s in my argument
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
I've been listening to a lot of good music this year, no idea what you're going on about.
This is as wrong as a take ever has been. More novel, vibrant, gorgeous, complex and engaging music is being produced today than at any time in history.
Banal, commercial pop music was inescapable throughout all decades of the last century. The classics of bygone eras are remembered in finite lists only as the uncountable middling efforts of thousands of shit acts fade from view. This is true of all art and media.
If you want to find current music that speaks to you, put in the effort. I mean that in an encouraging sense really, and don't want to dismiss your post out of hand.
In | that | spirit | of | encouragement | and | discovery | here | are | 31 | releases | from | the | last | decade | covering | a | wide | range | of | genres | many | of | which | have | enjoyed | critical | acclaim | and | commercial | success.
