Why is modern music so bad?
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Thursday April 20, 2023
David Mellor
David Mellor is CEO and Course Director of Audio Masterclass. David has designed courses in audio education and training since 1986 and is the publisher and principal writer of Adventures In Audio.
Oldschool instrumentals usually were really funky, bluesy, jazzy and fun and so on full of soul. And the types of vocals were so much more varied you had Michael Jackson, Mark Morrison, Axel Rose, Eazy-E, Mariah Carey, James Hetfield, Dave Mustaine, Andre 3000, Ozzy Osbourne, Lemmy Kilmister, Bobby Farrel, Johnny Cash, Madonna, Joey Ramone, Laura Braningan, Kate bush.
All these people, had such unique vocals and singing styles, neither were they over produced with a thousand effects or sounded all the same.
The only 2 singers nowadays who i find have interesting voices are I guess Lady Gaga and Adele.
@DelinquentSquirrel: It isn't an age thing. A while back I was round at a friend's, I got talking to her son (age 14) about music. He's into electronic and dance. I played him some stuff from the 90s. He was blown away by how much 'better' it was. Better production, none of this brickwalling, more 'fluid' sounding. Same genre of music, but going back 30 years.
When someone who wasn't even born when things like Liquid's "Sweet Harmony" came out starts saying it's "awesome" and "why don't they make music like that now" then you know there's something in it.
@keithsnowdon8672: No it isn't bad. It just isn't music. Last 20 years.
@longsnapper5381: Sorry, I'm 66 and love music of all types up until the early 2000's. The Grunge of the 90's is my favorite. If you're not creating your music with real musical instruments, you're a poser plain and simple.I'm a musician and the shared experience of managing an actual musical instrument to where you can entertain a crowd with it has to be part of the experience for me.Composition involving dynamics, key changes, etc is essential. I mean, I still enjoy Beethoven and that music is 200 years old. Will anyone still be listening to Bad Bunny or Billy Eilish 200 years from now? I'll bet The Beatles will endure. I do enjoy some music today. The Tedeschi-Trucks Band comes to mind. Modern country is still passable but all so formulaic. Anyway, there is no resolution of this issue. I'm old and couldn't really give a shit about the topic anymore. Rest assured, my 7 month old grandson listens to the Beatles every time he's around me and I already have his first guitar picked out. Grandma still has her Baby Grand and knows how to use it. We'll do our part......
@stefbaldfish2982: I'm 47 and I love music from most era's but... The music today is bad because record labels don't make that much money anymore so they invest less. A lot of artist try as independent. And most music I hear on the radio is just bad afther worse. Now taste and loudness are not my problem. It's just all the same. I don't even turn the radio on no more. It annoys me. I only listen to music on playlists I have created. And when People send me songs, modern, new songs, that are good... I quickly add them to my playlist. But those times are rare ...
@Busy-l8b: Song are not written by artist, but by the corporate. Compression , 5 to 3rd and no heart and soul.
@Aguyincanada0: When I think of modern music I think of Mae muller☠️
@WilliamMitchell-sc3fe: Modern music is so bad because nobody has any talent and nobody can think on their own in terms of creativity. And on top of that modern music nowadays, they all sound the same. They're all copycatting each other and maybe they don't even realize that that's what they're doing!
@man-gi8su replies to @WilliamMitchell-sc3fe: Maybe you should actually look for music you would enjoy instead of just complaining that pop music is pop music. There is a vast amount of amazing modern music out there.
@TmoneyOGGamer: Everything sounds the same now
@DaveMiller2: Music today is way overproduced, and it's autotuned into oblivion. With the technology you don't need to be good or talented anymore because the technology can just "fix" it. So much is done with pre-recorded backing tracks that very little is played through the air to a mic. The backing tracks come from a small pool and everyone is drawing from that pool. Most artists are not really musicians. They are technicians. They uuse computers to cut and edit pre recorded tracks or snippets together. What little they play or sing gets pitch corrected. They can't really play instruments or sing well. Music is so available that it has lost some of it's specialness. It's taken for granted. So people have lower standards. You have Artificial Intelligence writing souless garbage. And because technology is so available, while on the one hand anyone can now release music (not having to go through a record label), on the other hand, ANYONE, can release music (so there's metric tons of crap out there). Everything moves in cycles, and right now music is at a low point. Sooner or later it will move back to the next cycle of creativity and quality.
@rodrigogirao8344: That sort of mastering should be considered DEFECTIVE PRODUCT and UNFIT FOR SALE.
@kevingiblin4122: The talking complete Tosh what music is crap it started to die in the mid 90s and got worse facts😢
@keridokaballo3141: Jimi Hendrix was pure noise in the 60's. Today's music is as good as Mozart's times.
@dleetr: I didn'tike most music that was around when I was growing up, this remains the case. I don't think you are making a valid point at all. You just have bad taste, and familiarity breeds consent. Big picture though, the popular music of today offers less variety and is not as musically interesting or sophisticated. Irrespective of whether I like it or not, objectively speaking most of today's music is worse as music than what prior ages offered.
@rustynails68: I became a bluegrass fan in my 50’s. It is dramatically better than anything on the radio.
@Roosville1: Becaue its reliant on a single artist with 15+ co-writers, a single artist Ft another artist as guest. There are no bands anymore, no groups where maybe 5 musicians sit down in a room and have a laugh / argument.
@24sevenrecords51: For me the 80's music, 90's and early 2000's I ove them especially pop, reggae , RnB and in Rap I love rap from around 2004 until 2005 then after that I happen to like a song if it is well written
@christschool: The loudness wars started in the 90's as analog was converted into digital. I can take the same CD from 1986, buy the 1999 version of that CD and the quality of the 1999 pressing is awful compared to the 1986. I believe the manufacturers somehow cut their costs by losing some of the richness and so turned up the distortion.
@lilpizza4207: it should be noise. fuck your cookie cutter genres n shit get with the times paul mccartney.
@StormChaserFilmography: There is actually some insightful research which suggests that music quality has genuinely been trending downward over notably the last 20-25 years, and quite dramatically. The study was published in 2012 and was conducted by the Spanish National Research Council.
I, for one, believe that the 1990s was the last decade to feature good music. Growing up in the 1990s, honestly, much of the mainstream music that was played was actually enjoyable then (especially the early- to mid-1990s), in addition to many of those songs that did not appear on radio/TV. I think that back then (and previous decades, I strongly believe), you did not have to place much effort to find good music, especially since many were already enjoying what was already being played regularly.
@Flmmusicreviews: New pop music is terrible, bring back 90s and 2000s music
@pkmcburroughs: Personally, I have no problem whatsoever finding interesting, exciting music from ANY time period, from just about any genre. I fail to see the hysteria that's running rampant on-line. And believe it or not, I don't know a single Taylor Swift song. People expect good music to get dumped into their laps and ears. They don't want to go out and search for it.
@mattm3t3: recent jazz recordings or releases tend to be better than the old ones---setups in studios and instruments are probably better too. i like the old jazz artists playing with modern tech around. vocal jazz is exemplary nowadays...
@susanb2015: I started shaking when you played that.
@susanb2015: I like 50s 60s 70s 80s and early 90s. I like Ragtime Jazz Big Band. It is not because I am old. I was born in 1967 and by 1993 music died.
@danielpoot5705: I kind of find more interesting music in japanese anime backgrounds than in american pop music.
@animeOfDarkness405: I love my 90s and 00s dance music
I still enjoy dancing earodance 90s and 00s dance.
@user-friendly-boiiis: Modern music is shit - no talent garbage.
@KernowRoadcam: I'm 56 and don't suffer from boxing myself in to the music that's from my formative years. Using 1988 as your benchmark and looking at the albums currently in my Top 10. Only three are from the era before my 20th birthday. The album at the top was released this decade. Another three are from this century and the remaining three are from the 90s. Nineteen of my most played tracks this year are from the last three years, the outlier being a 10CC song from the 70s. I think that writing current music off is self-limiting. Sixteen of my most played tracks this year are from artists that most people won't have heard of. There is great new music out there - you just need to be prepared to look for stuff that resonates with you and that you are willing to dedicate the time and effort to understand.
Arguments about 'good taste' and 'bad taste' are completely nonsensical for something that is entirely within the ear of the beholder and therefore entirely subjective. And self-serving arguments about today's music just seem to self-justify why people have got stuck listening to the same old music that they want to hear forever more. I guess that is the same reason why people go on holiday to the same resort and same hotel every year.
@mystromix: Copied from another video… sus
https://youtu.be/oVME_l4IwII?si=2xrr9iYZrWLCO2e0
@AudioMasterclass replies to @mystromix: Haha, the guy makes a completely different point than me. I suspect you just like making trouble, no?
@elijahmountainfire888: Willie Nelson loved that old beat up scrappy guitar
more than he loved some pissant members of his own family.
@elijahmountainfire888: Music is not numbers or statistics or sales.
It's still an art. If you hate stinkin' money.
@jefferysmith5921: New music is total garbage! Soundtrack one - too busy / Soundtrack two - gives me a headache. Yes, new music is bad. Rick Beato explains this well on his YouTube Channel. Stand up anything new to Hotel California.
@frodeiseth5960: I do not like arabic rythm patterns in new western music. I am not an arab. In old prog there is a lot of classical music. It s sad its gone, like 1920s music in 1960s music. It was fun. It s to much serious four chord music today, it s not fun at all. In old days many bands developed themself. The record companies didnt know what to do with them.
@asirithwelzorn5907: To me almost all popular modern music sounds the same (Currently 20, lol)
@nicholasmaude6906: Modern music started turning to shit in 1993-5.
@kk-om5zm: It's simple for me, a Heavy Metal musician. A few days ago, awards were given again to stupid singers, who are listened to by children! It's all rigged. When we listen to the Beatles, the R. Stones, Metallica, Pink Floyd and other stars, we understand the difference from today's nonsense....These guys are killing music just like they killed Hollywood...
@martinCraig-vf7jg: Songs like JiltedJohn, laughing gnome, monster mash and funky gibbon were fun, nothing like them anymore
@russputin6294: Mickey Jupp says it all.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94ca3AtzUms
@azzajames7661: Modern-day music has no heart nor, soul😒
@jonathankoziol6573: It’s not just the sound. It’s the content. Everything sounds processed and mass produced.
@Armstrong-h6v: Today's music is so mechanical that it sounds the same no matter who sings it. Why not just get an AI to sing it?
@harringtonbenton334: ITS NOT NOISE ITS GARBAGE
@Zach-sg5uu: Modern so-called music music is best used when you’re trying to cover up other noises while you’re working on something!!
But then it’s not much better than the in chosen noises!!
@Zach-sg5uu: The sound is bad, the tone is bad, it has no spirit, it has no artistic ability, it’s gibberish. It’s objectively, horrible music!
I don’t believe it should be able to legally be called “music”!!
@blogshagify: 1. The main reasons it's bad is because they don't use real instruments any more.
2. They have little singing skill, hence AutoTune is used
@PlainsPup: The problem is that it’s not modern music; it’s post-modern music.
@NicholasPacheco-b3i: I do agree that different ages have different tastes in music. BUT, complexity has diminished, there has always been poorly written repetitive music thruout history, but now it is hard to find a song with good music and an original instrumentals.
Yes, the music has gone down in quality because it is all to make quick money, art, inspiration, and emotions that are not part of the process.
This video is only referring to the gender of music, not the quality.
The instrumentals complexity and harmony in correlation to the lyrics, the lyrics' complexity and meaning.
Now, it is all repetitive with a catchy frame and a catchy tune that repeats in loops for 2-3 minutes.
Just read the lyrics of the stairway to heaven, heaven by Erick Clapton, any song from cats Steven's, nothing else matters, what a wonderful world, etc. Compared that to nowadays, just the lyrics. Then, analyze the instrumentals musically speaking. We are getting worse.
@hard.to.define: I love the music from the 20th century, almost all genres.
@michaelcasey6085: You can make yourself like anything if you want. And you can stay there and stand firm forever. Or you could come to a point where you open your horizons and allow yourself to explore what has been popular and praised highly in the past. There are always those pushing things to extremes. The extreme is rarely embraced by the masses for a long period of time. People expect a reasonable measure of sensibility within the scope of human existence. Most people want to fit in with their surroundings at a certain age. Later they may develop and nurture a more concentrated love of music. If they are honest with themselves, this is when they can decide what music they truly like, love, and appreciate. All you need is love.
@redraptorx1066: my parents introduced me to the classics as a kid. so far all i've seen out of modern music is just noise.
@tommyatkins3911: Mainstream music from 1969, when I was five:
I Heard It Through the Grapevine. Marvin Gaye
Everyday People. Sly and the Family Stone
Get Back. The Beatles
Honky Tonk Women. The Rolling Stones
I Can't Get Next to You. The Temptations
Suspicious Minds. Elvis Presley
Come Together. The Beatles
Something. The Beatles
Someday We'll Be Together. Diana Ross and the Supremes
Bad Moon Rising. Creedence Clearwater Revival
Something in the Air. Thunderclap Newman
The Ballad of John and Yoko. The Beatles
The Israelites. Desmond Dekker
Blackberry Way. The Move
Albatross. Fleetwood Mac
All of the above made No.1 in the UK or the US.
@PartyCrewCoolPAD: "IF THE POTATO CHIPS HAD TAP DANCE THEN IT WAS ANOTHER POP TART MOOD OF YOUR MUSIC"
🤦♀️🤢
@wernerblaser5565: Well, we might call it a kind of democratization. It's music for people who are totally unmusical. There are political groups representing idiots, why should there not be "music" for musical idiots?
@fretbuzz_: The algorithms are making playlist and this is what makes music more or less popular. Have you noticed no modern pop songs have a long intro? Its because peoples attention span of 10 seconds doesnt let a track build before they hit skip. Thus hurting the rating of any long intro song. So goodbye metallica orion or queen bohemian rhapsody you been skipped too many times.
@eugenerowland1262: Music began to DIE the day that Edison invented the phonograph. 😢
@ed1726: I was in Tate Britain the other day looking at Turner prize contenders, or it could have been some plastic chairs from the canteen. Hard to be sure one way or the other.
This is my way of saying that sometimes things which are obviously awful are actually secretly just awful.
@jesseonyenka: They still put 80s songs in the radio, music today, is horrible and im 2000
@LPCLASSICAL: My GF showed me a track by Harry Styles. Not impressed. Such emotionless singing. He seems to talk his way through the track. The only 21stC song I like is Roar by Katy Perry
@gnanamagic: It's not that it is nothing but noise. It's that it is hard to hear anything that sounds original. Many of the songs sound like slightly different versions of the song before. I love music from all generations and sound. The 'just noise' argument is not why it is not good.
@DonLeist: Nobody cares about music,no money to be made as a "Pop Star" or "Rock Star"!
@marparty0: I was professionally trained in Beethoven Bach and so forth. I like all different styles in classes of music from disco to rock to classical to New Wave to all kinds of different mixes but unfortunately it seems like the music now sucks I'm partial to rock in the 60s 70s in the 80s just a few grunge
@xenomorphbiologist-xx1214: Brace for “wrong generation” rant (even tho I wouldn’t change anything about my date of birth) but almost all of the music I enjoy is older than me
The rock, metal and even 80s disco from the late 1960s to late 2000s had the perfect balance of simple, easy to follow, riffs and chords, with a good amount of complex and unique solos and bridges here and there.
Problem is, modern music has objectively gotten way less complex, not just in array of instruments used but even the way they’re used. How many Taylor Swift songs have a boring and generic main set of chords with an even more boring and generic bridge? How many pop songs have aimless lyrics? I mean heck, if u listen to any kind of rap song these days, it would be hard to convince u that it wasn’t a kind of audio based torture device
Thing is, none of this modern music will be remembered. It’s being played now because it’s been released recently, but I still hear hundreds of rock songs and older music from at least 30 years ago being played over the radio these days. U think they’ll be playing Taylor Swift in another 30 years? Or will they still be playing U2, Van Halen and The Rolling Stones?
Finally, yes modern rap and pop artists make a lot of money these days, but look at the highest grossing artists of all time. Most of the ones at the very top are rock groups
Anyway, that’s all I got for today
@JeffSouthworth-y7w: The bubblegum music lovers have always had a simpleminded (brain dead) perspective, regardless of generation. As the US becomes more inclusive, the percentage of bubblegum nitwits has increased. Simply, Americans are getting dumber, hence crap music.
@Hardcopymusic: No, saying that it was like when I was young. Is about the same as saying war is different now but the same as when I was young. No, war is different now.
@andyvanvlierberghe5389: People arent just into music as former gens. Its their loss. Its just the loss of their own soul.....when your heart breaks, your brother dies, your dog is ill. Trust me you gonna know what music is. And you will never wanna live without. Trust me. People without are soulless.
@arekkrolak6320: If you dont like modern music here is some ancient for you: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QUcTsFe1PVs&pp=ygUNQW5jaWVudCBtdXNpYw%3D%3D#searching
@Aurorak-i6l: I watched a DP/30 interview of James Horner shot in February 2010, and he said that a lot of pop music is considered a weird throwback. Anything pop, hip hop and loop-based music is not memorable, it's easy to forget what's what, and big artists then (and also today), unless they're from an older generation, are eclipsed by a DJ. It's mind-boggling, and the DJ is the act, not the heart. Those words have carried me since then and it's part of why I tune into film soundtracks and score albums. Mainly composed by James Horner, of course, John Powell, and James Newton Howard. I honestly love music that comes from the heart.
@OrangeCanna9468: I think my music range is fairly eclectic and there are some current tracks i dont mind but they're sparce, most popular tracks are monotonous and lame particularly those (so called) American chart toppers. These days it's sourcing world music for the variety and soul.
@tedhodge4830: Yet isn't it odd that I can go back and listen to Floyd, The Doors, Beethoven, The Beatles, The Who, Johnny Cash, and weirdly enough, it doesn't sound like shit, even though I didn't grow up in that era? Or I can listen to Bach or Mozart or Handel and enjoy it? Meanwhile I remember vividly when NSYNC, Timberlake, Nelly, Who Let the Dogs Out, White T, Spice Girls, Britney, Madonna, Smashmouth, Nickelback, Papa Roach, Fred Durst, et al were playing on the radio and speakers everywhere when I was in my formative years and I was psychologically disturbed by how bad it was. I felt a visceral revulsion. Weird how I didn't get that same impression from Champagne Supernova, Soundgarden or Green Day. In fact, I remember specifically when music took an absolute dump, and it was right around the early 2000s. Classics remain classics. Pop trash is for a moment. I think they definitely have stacked the deck for the MP3 and streaming "revolution" with regards to dynamic range.
@someone-nf1lw: Just because it's a new song doesn't mean it's good. Just listen to a good song if it's an old song it's okay at least it's a good song not just noise
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@VintageGearMan: Ok I will be fair on newer music. I think music sales "could increase substantially" if the music were not compressed and limited underneath a 20 ton press to start with. Dynamics could come back into play "but" part of that has to do with the musicians themselves and how they play their instruments in the first place during "a said recording session" and how said songs were "recorded" by the said studio engineers,,,,and the artist songs written in the first place. There is a "very long chain of events" to sound as good as (example) Steely Dan's recordings or even the Beatles. This is my humble point of view and I think many would agree in here. I am a lifetime drummer and have been recorded in professional studios years back.
@VintageGearMan: Those levels were frightening in the software as per your examples!!!! Why even bother! Thanks on the truth once again!
@VintageGearMan: Hands down horrible engineering period. What a farce! Zero dynamics! Beating a dead horse but thank goodness for my LP collection. I am glad I hoarded records during the CD craze!
@VintageGearMan: This is so wrong in so many levels as you would put it. This is disgraceful engineering to say the least! Are you kidding me?
@VintageGearMan: Holy cow the first example is so maxed! Who does this? "Even" just running your amp at home,,,, receiver,,,integrated amp,, it used to be common knowledge to not go past 3/4,s on the volume control for optimum loudness and zero distortion. The fact that mastering facilities are going way beyond this is unacceptable. This is a very sad state of affairs.
@michealbadman6411: This is false because statistics have shown that everyone is listening to old music.
@jaydenhessler5503: I'm 20 years old and have never understood what was wrong it seems like after the 2000s shit just got weird. Then again I guess your guys's stuff that came out in the late sixties and early seventies was pretty psychedelic too 😂
@JosephAmodeo-u2n: the answer is simple… infinite sound design & midi drum beats
@sass6680: putting wet leg in the thumbnail for a video covering "bad music" has to be a war crime😔😔
@werdnanodrog6811: Paul McCartney or Eric Idle? 😁
@johndavids4780: I am 75. 13 when the Beatles arrived and I consider that they year of my musical birth. I did 't appreciate big bands like Tommy Dorsey but as I matured I began to like it. But the 60s IMO was the era of creative melody and simply fun music. But all showed creativity and true on stage talent. Except for a few pretenders these musicians could actually play their music on stage. The Beatles advanced to more complex sounds that they couldn't duplicate live but they could still entertain live as in their rooftop concert. The Wet Legs segment didn't show any real melody, only attitude. But you can see many gen Z people discovering the Beatles and so many are amazed by it. Melody is the key. Modern has lost much of that. It is over engineered and lacks authenticity.
@Tyler360: I started listening to classical in my teens with no prior exposure. I quickly turned on the rap I had grown up with, and these days it's all I listen to at all. Meaningful lyrics, slower paces, more thoughtful melodies, more skill involved in making the music, I could go on. I disagree with your hypothesis that people simply like the music they grow up with. I agree with the old people in the 60s, from there on most of it's just ear assaulting noise.
@robertwilson214: I like everything from Beethoven to Rihanna. But theres getting to be less and less memorable music.
@bigfreaky: I switched continents musically in my early 20s. A lot of USA was noise, but I was vibing big time to Japanese music then. I had a bit of a break (depression), and have moved onto even another countries music. Music still has a lot of basis in my daily life. I plan travel around it sometimes.
@buzzbuzzard3809: I'm sorry but this is a braindead take and I can easily explain why. It's simple statistics. More people now can make music than ever before in the history of the world. Hence there is also a lot more crap. The entry bar to music back in the day was very high. And don't give me that age crap. Compare a song like Imagine by John Lennon or Californication by RHCP with Mo Bamba by Sheck Wes, theres not even a comparison. There is still good music being made today, I hear good new music regularly but OVERALL there is a lot of crap floating around on the airwaves. Also, and this is a controversial topic. Immigration. A lot of low IQ people form primitive culture gravitate to brainless crap rap like "How can I be homophobic, my b word is gay" in that UK crap rap.
@darrenelkins5923: Like many things, demolition man predicted it
Main stream music is 3 minute radio jingles
@AudioMasterclass replies to @darrenelkins5923: I wonder why we don’t use the sea shells yet.
@darrenelkins5923 replies to @darrenelkins5923: @@AudioMasterclass
we?
speak for yourself! ;)
@johnCjr4671: The majority People have become less intelligent over the decades and certainly less creative. Since real music involved learning a skill ie instrument , then being able to create an enjoyable melody with the accompany of other musicians ie collaboration and finally creating vocals that the listener can relate too . Apparently this requires way more than lazy non creative computer based geeks can handle !
@AudioMasterclass replies to @johnCjr4671: You’ve been watching ‘Idiocracy’!
@magnusnielsen2648: I´m born in the 70s, most of the 80s,90s and 2000s music was shit. Some of it was glorious tho, and that's what we remember right?
@ytkel8880: I think for me the problem with the music today is actually the quality of the songwriting rather than sound. A lot of time I hear songs that sound fine but the lyrics are average.
@kydzs: Mainstream music always sucked balls its the underground where you look for gold. Its not like robert johnson was number 1 back in the good old days , joy division, spoon, the xx, and i can keep on forever. You want good shit its not in the surface so you know
@marvinbaudoin7769: Paul McCartney is aging well!
@Hans-ÅgeNielsen: Im 50 and i know this is not just a mordern music problem but also remaster problem. E.g. Metallica remaster is significant downgrade from original CD. Loudness war has destroyed a lot of joy for me. I have the best hifi gear ever but i have very little joy of the quality from streaming and remastered music. I have all my original CD in lossless flac om a nas - to keeporiginal dynamicrange. That is the sad truth of it.
@Bernardoskau: Pop music was good until 2020
@arnijulian6241: It not a matter of age as I can't stand it either under 30 as I am.
Some people just have no taste & merely want to fit in while with a million & 1 genres that are all forgettable but really it is a matter of identity politics-weird status malarkey.
They can market this all they want but I never picked it up!
@jeffreysanders7334: There is a false equivalency going on here with comparing the 1950's/1960's and everyone versus today's music.
Yes, both involved people being turned off by something new. But that disguises the reasons, which couldn't be more different.
1950's squares didn't like art; they liked conformity. They were appalled by the music of 1960's because the art was good and they didn't like losing control.
Today we hate modern music not because it does something dramatically different that we just can't understand, but rather it's not doing anything new or artistic. Every song is autotuned and has no complexity. There is no unique or weird; it's just a formula your brain gets real bored of real fast.
@jotcarey: Very interesting, especially the data showing that mastering engineers deliberately introduce distortion to the backing tracks. Makes perfect sense. Lends excitement by simulating the effect on a listener's ears of a very loud live band. Just one more demonstration that music inevitably evolves, creating confusion and revulsion in those who can't hear it.
@jempierre2777: r/iamverysmart
@Gorilla7738 replies to @jempierre2777: Dude did u even watch the video??