03-25-2022, 03:30 PM
(03-25-2022, 03:06 PM)Nate (formerly eliminate08) Wrote: If you like a bunch of noise made in a studio from beat boxes and people with no musicianship or vocal talent today is your day.
I love great guitar, drums, bass and singing without distortion.
Today they change their voices cause they suck or they over sing, it is terrible. At least pop music is terrible there are some great
bands out their like Black Top Mojo, Love and Death, Demon Hunter, Iron and Wine etc but you never hear this on the radio. You
hear Katy Perry and frickin' Taylor Swift. This shit sucks ballz.
I say this without the slightest hint of irony or humor:
If I had the choice to listen to Taylor Swift and Katy Perry all day versus, say, Stevie Ray Vaughan for example -- I am taking the former, and I don't hesitate.
Taste is subjective on every dimension. All of these generalizations about what modern music is are unfounded. I also consider, just as a flat philosophy, "technical skill" to be among the least important elements of quality music. Obsession with that breeds genres I consider to be utterly unlistenable (e.g., progressive rock) and degrades an [IMO] much more important factor: writing.
