Be old brehs.
You parents said the same thing about your music. And your grandparents said the same thing about your parents' music . And Now it's your turn.
Also keep in mind this exact same thread has been made 4 times this month cause theColi was started with the same cohort from 2012. So all y'all getting old at the same time. The music hasn't changed, you have .
This is a standard reply that is ultimately meaningless as one can say you’re just not critical of music because you’ll love any old thing if it’s in your era and around and around we go essentially meaning there is never any valid criticism to anything.
Ultimately music is subjective that is true. But there are certain things that can be looked at to determine how music may have changed and one can choose whether that’s a positive or negative.
So for example this goes into how radio stations consolidated making it more difficult for acts to break through:
Or the corporitization of the music industry:
Some have attributed a lot of this to one man Lowry Mays who created the largest radio conglomerate folding in many radio stations into his empire and ultimately having the say on what got played and what did not.
Lowry Mays, the San Antonio entrepreneur who turned Clear Channel Communications, the predecessor to iHeartMedia, into the largest broadcasting conglomerate of the post-consolidation era, died on M…
variety.com
Not even going into the Internet era and what it has objectively done to music.
It’s not a stretch to say that when music is ultra stratified into just product that diversity and creativity will suffer. One can then draw a conclusion that overall quality will as well. This is forming a conclusion by taking what is quantifiable (the hyper corporatizion of music) and applying it to the non quantifiable to make a judgement call on overall quality.
In other words it’s going beyond the simplistic “People get older and don’t like new music!!!” paradigm.
this has been one of the worst summers that I can remember. No anthems, no nothing.
