How is todays music compared to music 10,20,30 years ago?

Answer 1

10...Nirvana paved the new way of music
20...big hair and head banging were hot
30....hippies were burning out and disco was born
Just my opinion..=)

Answer 2

Personally, I feel that today's music is somewhat unoriginal. Even 10 years ago people were writing distinctive lyrics and coming up with better music all around. I feel like it's rare to see an artist actually trying to be different.

I'm not saying that all artist are that way, it just seems to be that more and more artist are trying to cover the older songs or sound to much like one another.

I also feel like music today isn't as much about the lyrics as it is about the catchyness of a song. 10,20,30 years ago, lyrics meant something. Every song had a story to tell and a message that went along with it. I just don't feel like today's music carries the same weight.

Answer 3

I don't know if this answers your question, but I agree with most of the folks who say that folks have stopped writing music in large part and now just record or remix stuff. Not that that's always bad, but it's like chinese food -- you're hungry again an hour later.

Some interesting stuff is happening in club and trance (horns, rap, brazilian influence on otherwise uninteresting electronica such as chemical brothers). Also, some rap artists have started to involve middle eastern beats and half-tones, which is amazingly sophisticated for a genre that often caters to the lowest common denominator. what's left of grunge appears to be borrowing a "sound" from the early 1970's, which is fine by me as long as it's organic growth and not copying.

Music goes through periods of originality and unoriginality. We're overdue for originality, and i think it's coming soon.

Answer 4

I would say today's is more of the same music. Artists don't seem to be writing new, unique, and interesting songs, they write the smae types of songs as every other artist. Maybe it was the same in past years, but I think that it is getting worse. In the '90's there was a lot more variety in the music that was being produced.

Answer 5

It doesn't compare. 10, 20, 30 years ago, pop stars were not manufactured, they earned it. Now, it is four people in a music studio in New York writing all the "music" for 345 "artists" who couldn't sing their way out of a paper bag if they tried. (Christina Aguilera can sing...give her her props...)
When are you people gonna realise y'all got screwed on an upbringing?

Answer 6

You will soon find that most things are cyclical in nature especially music. What is old becomes new and what is new will eventually become old. Also as you age your tastes in music will change along with you. As for me I have changed dramatically in musical tastes but at my core is heavy metal because it was at the crucial teeanage years of my life that I listened to it.

Answer 7

Today's pop is more about style then content - go back 10-20-30-40 years and the songs carry themselves (even though the fashion has dated terribley).

Good style has a short shelf life
Good content lasts

Mind you there is good stuff about today if you go looking for it...

Answer 8

Todays country music is yesterdays rock music

Answer 9

today's music is more abt electric instruments..but previously nature played a dominating role

Answer 10

good,more feeling