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Nothing is as good as it was when we were young. Back then, crime, vandalism, pornography, corruption, laziness, and airbags were unknown. Small print was easier to read. You could walk faster, eat without getting fat, and your joints didn't ache.
Everyone had a job, and everyone was content. It was one big paradise built by non-union labor, where your tires lasted for 280,000 miles because the streets were paved with gold. Government left Job Creators alone, and so they gave all the extra money to their employees. The only bad thing was all the singing and dancing all the time - brass bands played through the night most nights - but we didn't need the sleep because our backs and knees didn't ache back then.
Young people today listen to very whiny music today. I don't understand how any self respecting man can drive around blasting "Same Love".
Generation of whiners.
I refer you to two early 80s hits: "Tainted Love" & "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?". These heights of whiny self-pity were equalled only in the "Complaint Rock" wave of the early 1990s.
If guess about 98-99% of all new music is poorly crafted or has stupid lyrics. This makes casual listening difficult for people who pay attention to both aspects of a piece. Honestly, I think we'd have better music out there if you divided music comp from lyric writing, putting talent with education in music theory for the first, and good poets for the second.
Relying on some fast-food-employed, dope smoker, garage band rejects to write the music of the age is so fucking 1980s.
No offense to original poster, the answer to both queries is probably yes.
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I work out in the gym every morning. As such with many gyms they play "pick me up" techno-dance-pop music over the PA system. Usually I don't hear it over the machines. But when I'm in the changing room I can. I find myself thinking as I hear most of it:
" God this is stupid!"
It seems that every other song is a carbon copy of the other. The exact same sound effects, style of singing, and of course with most of the techno music, that sort of wind-up sound used so often with a brief pause before the music goes into a sort of trance pattern.
When I was a kid I promised myself to always listen to new music and never turn into some crabby old person who hates the stuff. Now- granted I still listen to a lot of new music. I like music of all kinds: Country, Americana, Techno, Pop, Symphony, and so on. But a lot of the top-40 pop music pieces I find hardly bearable.